Invasions From Above

[peteryoung]

Two news items battling for my attention today: the white chill of nature vs. the white heat of technology.

Invasion 1: It's 8am, the snow has finally descended on the South East, is a few inches deep outside, and I can hear ambulances. Surely I needn't point out that I'm in England, not @home in Thailand, where it's 25ºC and sunny and, guess what, where I'd rather be.

Invasion 2: 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." (via mckitterick) Gosh, and I haven't even got out of bed yet.

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

1) Finally! 2 days ago in Kent.

2) NASA have made these cryptic press conference announcements before, and they tend to be damp squibs rather than aliens. If there is life in the universe, I expect to hear it from Wikileaks first.

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

1) Mother Nature has always smiled on the Thames Valley and usually spares Reading until the last possible minute.

2) Yes. I think it's probably something to do with red dwarfs, not red dwarfs from Mars.

[dan-golem.livejournal.com]

There seems to be a bit of disgruntlement amongst journos about the way this was announced. But they do end up admitting that this is an important discovery, even if it's not yer actual aliens.