Prothean Tech?
Prothean Tech?
Rightly so.....
Space exploration has stagnated since the moon-loading because their isn't a clear objective.
If their was clear evidence that some planets had sustained any kind of life then governments would probably be more active in space related technology. And it may sound useless for normal people but eventually we the normal people will also benefit from investments in sci fi alike technology.
OBVIOUSLY, they found a Mass Effect ring
So you're saying that if we did find evidence of intelligent life, they would just come out and say "hey guys that stuff we found, it was intelligent life forms and they're here on Mars!" You think the government would be ok with that letting NASA tell the whole world that there are intelligent life forms other than us? I don't think so. Every religion that people believe in would change and the super over religious nut jobs would go insane starting riots and all sorts of chaos. So to prevent this sort of stuff the government covers it up and says to NASA "No you can't release this information, what you will say is that it was a new type of element that could possibly be a future source of energy or fuel." Then after that they will cover the shit out of it and will be known as just a possible future energy source or fuel.
You don't even know what the government is doing. For all we know they may really be working with aliens with laser guns and spaceships and we don't even have a clue that that's going on while were just going on with our lives. All the government cares about is that us sheep continue being sheep and go on with our lives not worrying about what's in space. To say that there are intelligent life forms on Mars would get people to start thinking for themselves and the government doesn't want that, they want to keep those fences closed so that us sheep can stay within the shepherd's eye sight.
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It's probably a meteor from Earth or Obama shaped sand dune or some such.. never get your hopes up for these things, you will be disappoint (ed).
As has been the case for anything else discovered by NASA, yes. Despite your hypotheticals, I don't understand why you find the concept so foreign.
Yes, I do. Who said anything about intelligent life, anyway? We were discussing the possibility of life on Mars, and if any exists there it's almost assuredly in microbial form.
Any field of study under NASA's scope inevitably involves topics and facts that are incompatible with various belief systems, religious or otherwise. Oddly enough, that's never once prevented NASA from announcing or releasing information to the public. I seriously doubt such an announcement would yield the chaos you seem to envision. If anything, I'd imagine the initial reactions would vary primarily between celebration and skepticism. Riots? Please.
"The government"... I'm sorry, but this sounds like the vaguest, most convenient catch-all for some sort of personal distrust. I don't think you realize how difficult it would be to conceal this sort of information from the public, especially given the numbers of scientists involved.
I find this neither rational nor supported by a shred of evidence. Like I said, the types of things you're introducing here are straight out of movie scripts.
Then why even have government agencies like NASA in the first place (or NOAA, or a host of others)? You may not be aware of this, but agencies like NASA commit a significant amount of time and resources to public education and outreach. That's rather the opposite of this cover-up nonsense you're suggesting.
The schedule has been set for Monday's press conference:
That's 9 AM Pacific, so Noon EST (17:00 GMT). It'll be broadcast live online (here).Mars Rover Curiosity’s Investigations in Gale Crater
Monday, 3 December
9:00 a.m.
NASA’s newest Mars rover, Curiosity, has been investigating past and modern environmental conditions in Mars’ equatorial Gale Crater since August. This briefing will offer findings from examining the composition and textures of targets touched by the rover’s robotic arm. Curiosity is the car-size rover of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. At the time of the AGU Fall Meeting, it will be four months into a two-year prime mission.
Participants:
Michael Meyer, Program Scientist for Mars Science Laboratory; NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., USA;
John Grotzinger, Project Scientist for Mars Science Laboratory; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA;
Paul Mahaffy, Principal Investigator for Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA;
Ralf Gellert, Principal Investigator for Curiosity’s Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer; University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada;
Ken Edgett, Principal Investigator for Curiosity’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI); Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, California, USA.
If it realy is that, then i hope they can prove it originates from Mars and it's not something that the curiosity brought over, otherwise there will always be some doubts about it until they CAN prove it.
Not to mention even if they do, there will be people who will basicly plug their ears and go "I can't hear you".
This was interesting (sorry if it's been linked already)
http://io9.com/5964244/in-partial-de...isappointments
Why am I back here, I don't even play these games anymore
The problem with the internet is parallel to its greatest achievement: it has given the little man an outlet where he can be heard. Most of the time however, the little man is a little man because he is not worth hearing.
Stop expecting so much... from the article I linked. NASA's begun to backpedal.
Guy Webster, a spokesman for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which operates Curiosity, said the findings would be “interesting” rather than “earthshaking.”
Why am I back here, I don't even play these games anymore
The problem with the internet is parallel to its greatest achievement: it has given the little man an outlet where he can be heard. Most of the time however, the little man is a little man because he is not worth hearing.
If only it was only the media. Take a look at the previous pages. So many posters trying to make their fantasies come to life by isolating words and phrases from what has been said and twisting them to no end.
I think that it will be some very interesting news, and something for the history books, after all this is an expedition to Mars for goodness sake, but no, nobody discovered ET's house most probably.
There are objectives, it's just that no one seems to want to pursue em. More research into space related travels, remote terraforming, methods and a lot of research into recovery and prevention for physical atrophy due to lesser gravity. There are quite a few, just for some reason less effort is being put into those anymore.
Hell, these things are what are needed before we put ourselves into mars and able to survive there.