Unless you have been in a coma for a few weeks you know that NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars, according to the lead scientist, found something for the history books.
Now, according to Boing Boing,
- NASA is pulling back hard on the reins when a different spokesman NASA spokesman basically asked the world to not get its hopes up too high, revising the level of importance down from "earthshaking" to "interesting".
NPR writes that the Curiosity's lead scientist:
- Grotzinger (as saying) it will take several weeks before he and his team are ready to talk about their latest finding.
Talk about a major let down. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the need to double check everything, but this latest statement only heightens the frustration level. Grotzinger would have done it better if he had reeled in his enthusiasm in the first statement then the second might almost have appeared as good news instead of frustrating back pedaling.
So, we can wait and see what the next gathering comes up with. NASA has promised more information around the middle of December during a science conference. So, the only thing that has really changed is "History Making" may have been an overstatement.
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Double checking? I kind of doubt it. I'm betting more of a cover up again to hide something. Such are my thoughts on how our government works.
Bush had it passed (if I remember it right) that no scientific break through could be released without going through the white house, and we have seen the kinds of people on the science committee.
Well, the conspiracy nuts will be on this one. And wouldn't you know it, I'm kind of one of those people, just not to the point of the great lizard race ruling us.
But seriously, it does make you wonder with how things work today. All of a sudden when things get closer to revealing they back peddle. Doesn't sound right to me.
But then, let me be honest here about this, I never trust 95% of what our system does or says any more. Hopefully I am wrong on this, but I doubt it.
Feel free to disagree with me. That's why we are all here on this site. We can disagree on things without going ballistic on each other.
Unlike the comment section under a certain "Y" service we all know.
They have jumped the gun so many times that I honestly feel that they are gun shy. But is it so bad over there that admin group has no clue what the engineering group is doing?!
Today's news is transmitted so fast that I can see how the cart got ahead of the horse, but White House mandate or not, actions like this only go to show how behind the ball NASA admin really is.
Ooohhh I can't argue that at all. You are so freaking correct on that. I've often wondered what the hell is really going on down there. It almost seems sometimes like no one there has contact with anyone else's group. Might be good idea sometimes for top secret equipment to keep everyone from knowing what is really going on, (which I also don't like), but not so good when one talks, and then the others retreat from it. Kind of makes you wonder how anything ever gets accomplished, or what is really happening. Even so, they do seem to move forward somehow.
If they found something "historical", it could only be a 'sign of life'. Unless it was an old condom wrapper, then Area 9 would be suspect. In either case we need POTUSor his wife to decide if we can handle it.
Ha! old condom wrapper! Area 51!! In the same sentance! HA! Humor ar ar!
From the way the backpedaling is phrased, I suspect that the discovery has something to do with the Viking Landers''Labeled Release' (LR) results and the presence of perchlorate salts (discovered by the Phoenix Lander) having produced a false negative result on the Viking Landers' testing for organics.
This would not mean a discovery of life, but merely a discrediting of the negative result that has long put a damper on the hope for current life on Mars. This would make sense for both the original and the backpedaling. But this is only a guess.
Good point Dave. Both of them actually. Fact is, we are all just guessing at the moment. But what else can we do until we hear something.
Since no one brought it up yet, and I'm bored at the second, maybe those aren't dig marks. Maybe they are footprints of a flying martian that landed, took a look, and flew off.
HEY, I said I was bored at the moment. Lol.
Kall, now you know why no one mentioned earlier! really? Flew off? In the Martian atmosphere? Wings would have presented huge shadows that would have presented itself first. No shadow, no flying Martians. The science really is that simple...
Yeah I know, but i was bored. It was the first thing I thought when I saw those. I wonder who is going to call the dig patches foot prints.
I mean supposedly we have a crystal pyramid on the moon, and a lunar city, and a robot head we found. So if they get to come up with such silliness, I can to now and then. I just don't try to defend my silliness.
But that is the most fun Kall! Having a full blown reality matrix for some of this idiocy is when it really gets entertaining, or terrifying should the get their meat hooks into the power base....and yes that is exactly who I am talking about....that guy is one crazy mo fo
I just found a site today, (which now I get to go try and find again), that lists a lot of that stuff.
If I can find it, maybe I'll start writing up one of those once a week. It should prove interesting out here with some of the stuff I've heard and read.
I admit I'm a conspiracy guy, no doubts about that. But shape shifting lizards is a bit outside my conspiracy thoughts. As in about 5,000,000 ly's outside my conspiracy thoughts.
It would make for some interesting comments here though I bet.
I think they found where they sent the remains of the Roswell weather balloon and now have to hide it somewhere else. Perhaps Europa.
ahhhhhhh an excellent hypothesis Anon, I would have suspected suspected area 51 had I been given the choice.
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