Mars Curiosity rover team set to announce 'major discovery' on surface of Red Planet that 'will be one for the history books' Rea

If it is indeed an announcement about finding life or bacteria, i wont be too surprised. It will just confirm what alot of us already knew.

And the "OMG YOU MEAN WERE NOT THE ONLY ONES HERE?" idiots will finally trip over their two ignorant feet.

and there is that methane found in proximity to crude oil.

Yeah, this NASA. Guaranteed it will be something totally uninteresting.

"Hi everyone, thanks for coming to our NASA event today. Have a look at our newly Photoshopped image from Mars. If you look closely beside that thing that looks suspiciously like a pizza box, which is totally not a pizza box, by the way, you'll see a carefully placed rock - I mean a rock that we found. You'll see that our Magnospectrum Radiomological Transinductor doohickey detected 0.0000001% Sodium Chlorifornication in that rock. This is 1000% more than we previously thought possible! All our scientific training in egghead disciplines tells us that this means there "might" have been a chance that a microscopic form of mold lived on that rock (and only that rock), on Mars, 700 billion years ago. OMG alert teh newswirez! This is History with a capital H, you fools! Pop the champagne!"...

Exactly

It is a red toyota camry

That is soooo true!

They found fossil fuels.

as algae? If humanity is destroyed just what will a spirit reside in?

major discovery.. they discovered that the flippin rover not in mars

You are nasas press writer, aren't you?

that one's old news.

i already knew there was life on mars.

Wouldn't that be, "Mars-shaking?"

They found John Galt

Since Abiogenesis is finally being recognized as the laughable pseudoscience it really is, they need to add fuel to the whole 'directed panspermia' mythology to explain life on earth.

Otherwise the masses might just begin to logically and rightfully ponder intelligent design again.

The words "logically" and "intelligent design" should never be used in the same sentence.

On December 20 NASA will announce they have found a giant nuclear bomb that will explode the same day. The bomb is bigger than all our nuclear bombs combined. The debris of Mars will hit Earth on the 21st and will destroy all life on our planet. The Mayas knew about this bomb and tried to warn us.

...with signs of bullshit already trickling in. Notice how the JPL steps in on this one.


[link to phys.org]


NASA downplayed Wednesday talk of a major discovery by its Martian rover after remarks by the mission chief raised hopes it may have unearthed evidence life once existed on the Red Planet. Excitement is building over soon-to-be-released results from NASA's Curiosity rover, which is three months into a two-year mission to determine if Mars has ever been capable of supporting microbial life. Its Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instruments have been sending back information as it hunts for compounds such as methane, as well as hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, that would mean life could once have existed there. In an interview with US broadcaster National Public Radio, aired Tuesday, lead mission investigator John Grotzinger hinted at something major but said there would be no announcement for several weeks. "We're getting data from SAM," he said. "This data is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good." A spokesman for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managing the project, appeared to pour cold water Wednesday on the hopes of space enthusiasts looking forward to an earth-shattering discovery. "John was delighted about the quality and range of information coming in from SAM during the day a reporter happened to be sitting in John's office last week. He has been similarly delighted by results at other points during the mission so far," spokesman Guy Webster told AFP. "The scientists want to gain confidence in the findings before taking them outside of the science team. As for history books, the whole mission is for the history books," Webster said. Scientists do not expect Curiosity to find aliens or living creatures but they hope to use it to analyze soil and rocks for signs the building blocks of life are present and may have supported life in the past. The $2.5 billion Curiosity rover—which landed in Gale Crater on the Red Planet on August 6—also aims to study the Martian environment to prepare for a possible human mission there in the coming years. US President Barack Obama has vowed to send humans to the planet by 2030.

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ooh is it they have figured out how to justify their next budget?

I bet they find water bears that they brought with them. lol

It would really be fantastic if they've proven the existence of life on Mars, but I think it's more likely they've found a chemical indicator of life. We seem to get one step closer to finding extraterrestrial life all the time, without actually reaching the goal.

I hope it does happen in my lifetime, though. Definitely the greatest scientific discovery ever made.

Watch mars attacks the movie ... there is a scene where a man makes a announcement on television that there rover found life on mars in the crater or something.. don't quite remember but it weirdly matches this ''major discovery''

Plus the name of the scientist in the movie is for some reason the name of a real scientist that worked for nasa.. after i googled the name..wtf ?

Check it for your self's..pretty weird.

They found Cinderella's shoe finally? That girl has got to stop letting her fairy godmother use magic on her. Never knows where she will end up. Or her shoes.

Promethious

They never went to Mars?

exactly