Another NASA news conference

[Daisho]

This time it is a conference about an astrobiology discovery.

http://www.nasa.gov/c...ses/2010/M10-110.html

I hope it's not another overhyped announcement, this one seems genuinely interesting.

[bibblebub]

Organic compounds on meteorites is old news http://www.scientific...d=murchison-meteorite (41 years old to be more accurate)

[DTCwordfan]

Upfront, ludwig, not sure what you meant by that comment?

At worst, it could be read as somewhat demeaning.

Some folk are scientists and some are not.....and we scientists can sometimes get up our own arses in terms of explaining science....and that is what I read in Maomi's comment, "What?" To me, that is fair enough.

[ludwig]

I just thought the bluntness of it was funny - no offence intended to you.

[naomi24]

DT ........ so you claim to be a scientist and you want to explain science to us all, so do your readers a favour and speak English.

[ludwig]

..or to Naomi either.

[DTCwordfan]

No offence taken

Now where is my organic container, better known as a glass of vino?

[naomi24]

Ludwig, well seriously, what else can I say when confronted with utter gobbledegook?

[naomi24]

Oh, I didn't take offence Ludwig. No need to apolgise to me.

[bibblebub]

DT - interstellar organic molecules were discovered years ago e.g. http://www.space.com/...t_life_molecules.html (from a simple search); more such discoveries would be no great shakes.

[naomi24]

True - but I still want to hear the outcome.

[DTCwordfan]

that borders on a personal attack that you so abhorred earlier in recent threads.....

I agreed on your thread that personal attacks should not be 'encouraged' on this site. Lack of consistency, me thinks.

[naomi24]

DT, I'm not quite sure to whom you're speaking, but maybe it's time to put that wineglass down because as this thread progresses you're sounding pretty silly.

[DTCwordfan]

How disparaging and rude.

[DTCwordfan]

My glass was 'fictional'

[sandyRoe]

So, there's no life on Mars? Did they ever decide what that thing that looked like a fossilized bacterium actually was?

[naomi24]

And all emanating from your words, but nice try DT. Fine when you pompously disparage others, but not so good when you're on the receiving end, eh? ;o)

Sandy, I like you. :o)

[DTCwordfan]

Who, pray, have I disparaged? I admitted that sometimes scientists can mask things in scientific terms and that you were right to challenge me. It is you, Madam, who have elevated this to the level of being a personal attack, but this is something that you, rightly, came on line earlier today to debate, namely in folk who have used the term aetheist in a negative, personal, way (and perhaps an abusive way) against you. And this is something I supported you on as debate about topics/themes, whatever, is to be welcome; debate that becomes personal slander, "attack", or abusive, is not.

[naomi24]

Sorry, I can only repeat ......what?

[DTCwordfan]

As Nancy Astor said to Winston in the House, "Sir, if I was your wife, I would put cyanide in your tea."

To which Churchill replied, "Madame, if I was your husband, I would drink it"

This more than sums this moronic exchange up...so Goodnight.
Enjoy your 'zzzzz's'

[naomi24]

You're impressing no one because some of us have heard it all before. Get over yourself. Sleep tight. ;o)