NASA News Media Teleconference Today At 1:30 P.M. EDT About NASA Search for Extraterrestrial Life!

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You can listen to it at the bottom link in this news release. If it's important news the TV networks will probably cover it. At least one can hope they will! BBI


Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
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Linda Billings
George Washington University, Washington
703-635-9799
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April 27, 2010 MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-064 NASA Announces Wednesday Media Teleconference About Search For Extraterrestrial Life WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news media teleconference at 1:30 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, April 28, to discuss the status of agency-sponsored astrobiology research, including the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life and the study of how life began on Earth. Topics also will include the quest for evidence of life on Mars, the habitability of other celestial bodies, and future technology research.

This week, NASA and scientists from around the world are gathering at a biennial meeting near Houston to celebrate 50 years of astrobiology research. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. Scientists gathered to share new data and insights, initiate and advance collaborations, plan new projects, and educate the next generation of astrobiologists.

The teleconference participants are:
Mary Voytek, astrobiology senior scientist at NASA Headquarters, Washington
Steve Squyres, researcher, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Bill Schopf, researcher, University of California, Los Angeles
Jack Farmer, researcher, Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.
John Peters, researcher, Montana State University, Bozeman

To obtain call-in information, journalists should e-mail their name, media affiliation and telephone number to:

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Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's website at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio


For more information about NASA astrobiology activities, visit:

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov


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[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the heads up and links, Better Believe It.

[zazen]

2. was Stephen Hawking's recent interview re ETL related to this conference?

Folks at the nearby university have had big grants to work on plant gravitational biology. Like, how do plants grow with non-Earth levels of gravity?

Cool stuff. I'm too busy watching CSPAN 2 to catch it, but please keep us informed.

[Better Believe It]

3. CNN: NASA to talk about search for extraterrestrials

NASA to talk about search for extraterrestrials
April 28, 2010

For some time now, NASA scientists have been searching for extraterrestrial life on other planets. NASA will hold a news conference Wednesday to talk about what it has learned.

Last year, NASA launched a Kepler aircraft equipped with a special telescope to try and find Earth-size planets in this galaxy.

The aircraft is on a three-and-a-half -year mission hunting planets but NASA has been able to download data. However, ueven without the evidence from Kepler, some believe there are aliens floating somewhere out there.

British physicist Stephen Hawking said aliens might be traveling the cosmos right now.

Hawking talks about his view in a Discovery Channel series, "Into the Universe With Stephen Hawking," which began airing this week.

On the show, Hawking suggests that extraterrestrial beings might not mean good will to people on earth. He imagines that aliens might have the technology to harness energy from whatever star they're near. The process, he proposes, could open a wormhole that could let them travel large distances.

Hawking's warning contrasts with the excitement some are showing about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Just last week, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) said it was releasing its data to astronomers and researchers all over the world, hoping more people would join the search.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/28/nasa-to-talk-about-search-for-extraterrestrials/

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4. 700 scientists from around the world attending conference on astrobiology research

[RT Atlanta]

5. bump

very exciting

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. Pfft. n/t

[Echo In Light]

7. Python, Monty (Galaxy Song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk

[Better Believe It]

8. Very cool! Thanks.