It is related to extraterrestrial life and anything that required a industry embargo has to be something big.

 
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html
 
MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-167  
 
NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2  
 
WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website at http://www.nasa.gov.

Participants are:
-     Mary Voytek, director, Astrobiology Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington
-     Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA astrobiology research fellow, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.
-     Pamela Conrad, astrobiologist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
-     Steven Benner, distinguished fellow, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Gainesville, Fla.
-     James Elser, professor, Arizona State University, Tempe

Media representatives may attend the conference or ask questions by phone or from participating NASA locations. To obtain dial-in information, journalists must send their name, affiliation and telephone number to Steve Cole at stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov or call 202-358-0918 by noon Dec. 2.
 
NASA TV Streaming Video
 
NASA's Astrobiology Activities

FUUUUU

The Covenant are here...

Holy shit they've found more water?

If all they're going to announce is that they've found bacteria on another planet. I'll be unimpressed.  
 
NOBODY CARES ABOUT SPACE GERMS!....At this point it needs to be a real walking talking alien!

" If all they're going to announce is that they've found bacteria on another planet. I'll be unimpressed.   NOBODY CARES ABOUT SPACE GERMS!....At this point it needs to be a real walking talking alien! "

get hype

" If all they're going to announce is that they've found bacteria on another planet. I'll be unimpressed.   NOBODY CARES ABOUT SPACE GERMS!....At this point it needs to be a real walking talking alien! "

It's going to be something totally lame. NASA hasn't done anything worthwhile in years. Sure, those Mars rovers were cool, and lasted way longer than intended, but really, was that a better use of tax dollars than to spend it, you know, on Earth, where we live?!

First Contact.
 
Someone mind bringing me up to speed on what's going on?

" First Contact "

 NASA scientists will announce a major discovery this Thursday that could boost the chance of life on other worlds. Experts believe they will say they have found a new form of life on Earth that is completely alien to anything known before.  
 
 But our own investigations suggest that it follows a breakthrough in the discovery of microbes in a deadly poisonous lake that get their energy from arsenic. Experts say this shows they had a completely different origin to any other creature known on our planet. It means that life began not just once but at least twice on Earth.

I'm sort of terrified. D:

So that announcement was 100% terrestrial. More theory, which was kinda neat.
 
I was more stoked to see Bill Nye the Science Guy on CNN, though.

Those who watched this on CNN but want to learn more can watch the Nasa conference at  http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

So what the fuck did they announce?

How exactly is this life form alien? Just because it's different? That's racist... ;)

Its a bacteria that substitutes arsenic instead of phosrous 
 
http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life?skyline=true&s=i   

" So what the fuck did they announce? "

" How exactly is this life form alien? Just because it's different? That's racist... ;) "

When ppl finds oxygen on other planets, everyone actually believes that there are going to be intellegent alien life too. Way to draw false conclusions about your false belif system. I don't care about bacteria, bits of traces of oxygen or a big of water. Those things seperately aren't enough to sustain life.

"

When ppl finds oxygen on other planets, everyone actually believes that there are going to be intellegent alien life too. Way to draw false conclusions about your false belif system. I don't care about bacteria, bits of traces of oxygen or a big of water. Those things seperately aren't enough to sustain life.

"

" @Pinworm45: there are life on other planets, not intellegent life. "

" @MatPaget said:

" So what the fuck did they announce? "

 A life form that replaces Phosphorous in its DNA Helix with Arsenic. 

Ahh the arsenic bacteria are going to replace our DNA and make zombies.

" @Pinworm45 said:

" @MatPaget said:

" So what the fuck did they announce? "

 A life form that replaces Phosphorous in its DNA Helix with Arsenic. 

Which means.....??? "

" @HitmanAgent47 said:

" @Pinworm45: there are life on other planets, not intellegent life. "

Oh, I didn't realize you've visited every single planet in every 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000+ known solar systems. "

" @Bones8677 said:

" @Pinworm45 said:

" @MatPaget said:

" So what the fuck did they announce? "

 A life form that replaces Phosphorous in its DNA Helix with Arsenic. 

Which means.....??? "

Our basic fundamental assumptions of what life is and can do were incorrect.  Basically, any time it was assumed that life could not possibly exist in a hostile environment, that may have been incorrect (although for this reason that assumption was generally not made). "

" @Pinworm45 said:

" @HitmanAgent47 said:

" @Pinworm45: there are life on other planets, not intellegent life. "

Oh, I didn't realize you've visited every single planet in every 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000+ known solar systems. "

The flying shapeshifting demons have taken him there. "

Okay, we need to have like, a secret code so we can tell us from the aliens when they invade. Unless they're reading this right now!

Reading Hitmanagents posts in threads like these bring tears of joy to my eyes.

The newly 'discovered' life form is actually just synthesised. Trained to use Arsenic instead of Phosphorus. Still, fairly important implications.