Misc

Scientists discover fossilized plankton in comet fragment. This is awfully quiet. Why isn't the discovery of life in outer space the biggest story in history? Something weird is going on here. I bet the fossil is of a known earth species which means the comet was born from the earth, or something else about the fragment makes it clear it came from the earth in support of the electric universe theory.

NASA keeps talking about water on Mars to excite people, but they never say it exists. Case in point:

"Drilling into a rock near its landing spot, the Curiosity rover has answered a key question about Mars: The red planet long ago harbored some of the ingredients needed for primitive life to thrive.
Topping the list is evidence of water and basic elements that teeny organisms could feed on, scientists said Tuesday."

That sounds incredibly promising. It makes for great marketing, but...

""We have found a habitable environment that is so benign and supportive of life that probably if this water was around and you had been on the planet, you would have been able to drink it," said chief scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology."

If? Sure, if you pored water on the ground, you could drink it, but there is no water on the ground. Where's the evidence of water? "If"s make for great marketing, not science.

"This was an environment where microbes "could have lived in and maybe even prospered in," Grotzinger said."

"Could have"s make for great propaganda, but not science.

"NASA rovers Opportunity and Spirit — before it fell silent — also uncovered evidence of a wet Martian past elsewhere on the planet, but scientists think the water would have been too acidic for microbes.
The ancient water at Curiosity's pit stop — possibly a former lake bed — appears to be neutral and not too salty. It previously found a hint of the site's watery past — an old streambed that the six-wheel rover crossed to get to the flat bedrock."

Or not. It disgusts me how these taxpayer funded parasites present "if"s, "could have"s and "possibly"s as fact. I saw the pictures labeled as an old streambed and disagree.

"Curiosity has yet to turn up evidence of complex carbon compounds, fundamental to all living things. Scientists said a priority is to search for a place where organics might be preserved.
The drilled rock isn't far from Curiosity's landing spot in Gale Crater; the rover is ultimately headed to a mountain in the crater's middle. Images from space spied signs of clay layers at the base of the mountain — a good spot to hunt for the elusive organics."

Old streambeds are good spots to hunt for elusive organics, but they didn't drill there because they might have proved their self-serving claims were wrong. Then they might not have been able to get as much funding. It's always all about the money. NASA will go down as one of the greatest suppressors of science in history, much like the old Catholic church.

"It has been slow going as engineers learn to handle the rover, which is far more tech-savvy than anything that has landed before on Earth's planetary neighbor."

How can a machine be tech-savvy?

Critics call the USDA wildlife services an outlet for perverts to abuse animals. Based on what I know about the nature of government, this rings truth to me.