OT - "major" space science discovery to be announced Monday
A big-name US astrophysics research center has a "major discovery" to be announced Monday afternoon:
http://www.space.com/25066-major-astrophysics-discovery-announcement-monday.html
I scanned some blogs and, aside from jokes (like, "the aliens who stole the Malasian airplane"), there's no consensus of what the announcement will be. Some of the possibilities:
-- An Earth-like planet -- something around Earth's mass, in the "habitable zone" of a star
-- Confirmation of the "multiverse" theory, which would hugely change our perception of just what "is" the universe
-- The nature of dark matter and/or dark energy, which if true would be like instant-Nobel prize for whomever figured it out. Although, this particular center isn't likely to be home to that kind of discovery; that's more theoretical than observational.
OR THE HOLY GRAIL:
-- Confirmation of alien life detected via signals.
That last one would be so ridiculously huge, there's a suspicion no one could keep it under wraps. You'd need it confirmed ten and twenty times over, and by then, someone would spill the beans. And it probably wouldn't just be a "major discovery" -- it wuold be something like, "OMG THIS IS SO FRICKIN HUGELY IMPORTANT Y'ALL BETTER GET YOUR BUTTS HERE TO LISTEN ON MONDAY." That's a couple degrees above "major."
Any guesses?
An asteroid or comet is whizzing through space and headed right for the earth and humanity is packing up and leaving. Tom Crean isn't invited on the journey.
I'm fairly confident that the general population will only know of alien life until it lands on Earth unexpectadly. What I mean is if the goverments around this world know alien life exists, they won't announce it...ever.
changing careers to do stand up comedy...
Bartender: Sorry, but we don't serve subatomic particles that travel faster than the speed of light here.
A tachyon walks into a bar.
Ogre was right:
Intelligent life in Washington, DC has been discovered?
We're talking real science here, not fantasy.
Unless, of course, Bruce Willis steps in to save us all.
March 15th, 2014 at 12:36 PM ^
They found the Tesseract?
is dumb.
</end informed opinion>
we're going back to the moon, like the guy in that Cadillac commercial said?
Haha
Cylons
March 15th, 2014 at 12:09 AM ^
March 17th, 2014 at 12:02 PM ^