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Today, NASA will announce a new finding which the space agency says will ‘inform the broader search for life beyond Earth’. A report from a former NASA employee suggests that the finding relates to hydrothermal vents in an icy ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. If true, it could be highly significant – as many scientists believe life on Earth began in similar warm vents on the ocean floor.
I think the worry from NASA is /was that any discovery of life would hurt their funding.
originally posted by: NerdGoddess
Maybe the secrecy is from the worry that private space travelers/scientists/machines will steal their thunder? Or taint "THEIR" discoveries first.
-Alee
originally posted by: eriktheawful
a reply to: lostbook
Why do you think it would hurt their funding?
If anything, I'd think that discovering life off Earth would actually increase the funding....directly proportional to the type of life......bacteria a increase......intelligent tool using life, a very substantial increase in funding.
I mentioned before that I believe that there is life on some of the Moons of the solar system; namely Enceladus. Now it seems that NASA is finally going to announce what it knows and has probably has known for years. However, why the secrecy? It's not like we could just travel to any of these places on a whim. How would the discovery of life elsewhere hurt National Security? What is the advantage to keeping the answer to life elsewhere secret? Is it NASA funding? IDK....but what I do know/think is that this announcement is a result from the growth of private Space. What says ATS?
originally posted by: peskyhumans
My prediction:
NASA will spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer funds to send a submarine on a rocket to go explore the ocean of Enceladus, and find nothing.
originally posted by: peskyhumans
My prediction:
NASA will spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer funds to send a submarine on a rocket to go explore the ocean of Enceladus, and find nothing.
originally posted by: moebius
a reply to: lostbook
I mentioned before that I believe that there is life on some of the Moons of the solar system; namely Enceladus. Now it seems that NASA is finally going to announce what it knows and has probably has known for years. However, why the secrecy? It's not like we could just travel to any of these places on a whim. How would the discovery of life elsewhere hurt National Security? What is the advantage to keeping the answer to life elsewhere secret? Is it NASA funding? IDK....but what I do know/think is that this announcement is a result from the growth of private Space. What says ATS?
Sounds to me like you are confusing our own beliefs with knowledge...
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
originally posted by: peskyhumans
My prediction:
NASA will spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer funds to send a submarine on a rocket to go explore the ocean of Enceladus, and find nothing.
Meanwhile untold millions will starve and species will vanish here on earth that those billions could have kept in the struggle to evolve here on earth.