NASA To Announce Massive Discovery
 

WASHINGTON -- NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This finding was made by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations.

Source - http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008..._Advisory.html

Looking for it for 50 years? Anyone have any ideas?

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Finally a reason to justify its constant deficit-spend?

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I know they are looking for a super-massive black hole, apparently every Galaxy has one, but I don't think they even suspected such objects existed 50 years ago! Could it be a pulsar?

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Your anus?

I never tire of that joke.. :)

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or maybe it's 'Planet X' which is where all the aliens came from that built the pyramids

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I actually think it's something to do with Dark Matter, they've been searching for that for years.

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That there is Life on Mars?:erm:

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Note how 'massive' (or even important/significant and other words to that effect) feature in the thread title only. It could be an asteroid that went missing 50 years ago...

Regarding dark matter: The press release mentions 'an object in our galaxy'

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Glen Miller?

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Feel like a red dwarf moment coming in..

To the aliens...you took the smegger, you can bloody keep him :D

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http://www.canada.com/topics/technol...25fb81&k=19876

Wonder if that's right?

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I did wonder about that, having heard about this discovery earlier. However:

Makes you wonder why NASA would schedule a media teleconference to announce a discovery made by/through support of the European Space Agency, when said discovery has already been published in 'Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters' and has been commented on by ESA.

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Indeed but i really cant think what else it could be, apart from ufo/alien types of things...and even if they had found that i doubt it would be released publically.

There is some hints going about it's something to do with black holes though...

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I wonder if any of the american presidential candidates is known for being pro-NASA and this is a stage-managed publicity stunt to benefit them both.....a bit far fetched I guess but for anyone who has read Dan Brown's Deception Point you'll know what I mean....

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Obama wants to cut funding to NASA and redirect it to science education in schools so I reckon it's not aimed at him.

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That's exactly what happens in Deception Point!! :shocked:

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Jimmy Hoffa?

It can't be that exciting or revolutionary if they have scheduled the press release so far in advance.

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They have found george bushes brain, someone heard the term black hole and instantly thought of the space born type not the earth bound US president type :D .

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My tv remote?

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inclined to agree.

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This will be a sign from the heavens and surely means that the end is near! :tu:

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Could be - Are NASA going to announce that a meteor is going to hit Earth @ 2pm EDT on May 14?

I ask this, as they are going to do it via a media teleconference. so they could announce it to us, from the safety of their spaceships that are out of harms way!:)

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Im more inclined to believe Rizzy on this one..;)

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Dark matter - http://www.physorg.com/news129299210.html

?

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Hope not, don't wanna be squished on my birthday thanks! :)

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Can't be dark matter as that's just an excuse for bad maths.

"Hey look, I've made an equation that works out the weight of the universe"

"Hang on, according to this there's about three quarters of the weight we can't explain"

"erm yeah, that's....dark matter.."

"dark matter? I've not seen that"

"No...you..erm..can't...but it's very heavy"

"Ah, ok then"

It could be extra-terrestrial intelligence, as there has to be some intelligence somewhere as we all know theres sod-all left on this planet.

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New equipment has made it possible to see dark matter..at least somehwat.

But that cant be the big announcement as that was made over a week ago (the dark matter stories)....wouldnt make sense for NASA to leak the story like that just to announce it a week later? :confused:

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They could of course just want to create a massive fuss about it, as it didn't really hit the news hard, did it?

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Yea, the sad thing is hardly anyone in the public cares about this sort of stuff anymore, nor about the significance of finding such things like this.

It's like String theory (ok, i know the name has changed, but my point still stands)

Amount of impact that is having on the science community and pretty much proving everything we know is completley wrong.

Public walk around oblivious to it, they dont complain when it creates nice new technology for them though lol.

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I think they've found a planet just like our own. The only thing is, that planet is 10 years ahead of this one. What would you espect to see?

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Fibre networks all over the place, World War 3 Russia vs America & co. And me, with a beard.

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Ah, that must be the new catscan machine Boris used last week.:D

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I suggest they are laying ante post odds on life being discovered in the solar system and want to keep the odds high until the aliens make an appearance. I just got a 1000 to 1 at my local bookie !

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You're 19, you should have a beard already :p:

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I do, and it's annoying as hell. But i shave it off... I mean in 10 years i'll probably have given in to it completely :p: Had a mustache since age 14... lol.

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Must be bad, you being a girl and all................ :D

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Erm...?

Moustache* btw.

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j/k

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Ahhh, lol. Wondered if i'd missed something :p:

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I sincerely hope that there is intelligent life on Mars, there's bugger all down here on Earth :erm:

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I'm afraid you might have a point there Trax, from the average persons point of view since the moon landings in the late 60s early 70s not a lot has happened. Of course that isn't the case, but it seems to me NASA need something big to capture the public mood again, especially from a British point of view as our government has cut our "space" budget which in turn means our scientists have lost access to some of the worlds largest telescopes for research. BTW I'm putting my money on there being life under the frozen wastes of Europa, if its anywhere in our system its there.

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Announcement Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT... not long to go now.

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It'll probably end up being something boring like they have found vague evidence of water on Mars and want the funding to send a manned mission there.

Anything for a bit of publicity at a time when their spending is likely to be cut in half.

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Apparently the Hubble Space Telescope mysteriously lost orientation momentarily a while back and sent back a series of images of a vast, inexplicable, semi-gaseous mass. Rumour has it that after exhaustive computer analysis it turned out to be John Prescott sunbathing.... :D

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Haha very good :)

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The sigh of John Prescott naked is enough to make anyone or anything lose orientation :)

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Just a reminder, the announcement is coming this evening, 6pm BST

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I think this might be a bit to hyped up now, worried it will be a let down

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They have found a planet full of wonderful women and booze. They want some volunteers to go there. As Homer Simpson would say whoooo hooo ;)

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The classical music they have playing is terrible.

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I like it :D

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Funny 1-2 mins though its been 4 now :p:

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Started now, did anybody get the website address for the slides?

Edit: Supernova remains

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Yea...what a waste of my time.

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Remains of a supernova in our galaxy

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Pfft, :dozey:

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? I think it's pretty cool :)

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Yep, its interesting but didn't need the build up.

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Error 2013 : Lost connection to MySQL server during query

Looks like they forgot to gear up so the website could handle the interest after all that hype...

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Ok, disconnecting now... I get what they're trying to say :p:

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Glad I paid enough interest not to pay any interest lol

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I feel like red repping the OP now (joke) :p:

Anyway, after all that excitement :tiptoe:

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Well what did everyone expect? I think this is pretty impressive!

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I would assume they have acquired direct evidence of the supermassive black hole that has long been theorized to lurk at the heart of most galaxies, including our own.

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They found that around 2004(?) i believe.

I remember watching a documentry about all the scientists being suprised about finding black holes in every galaxy they pointed at.

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It's a supernover,

"Scientists using a combination of radio and x-rays have found the most recent supernova remnant observed in our galaxy, located about 26,000 light years from here. It's the youngest, most energetic supernova we know and could shed light on just exactly how the stardust we're made of -- heavier elements and all-- gets created."

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2...og-nasa-a.html

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Reminds me a bit of the Eye of Sauron...

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Thought that was funny! :D

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Reminds me of this...

http://moloko.itc.it/paoloblog/images/hubble-fox.jpg