[DarrenL]

So it's today at 6pm GMT - we're good at speculation around here, what could it be?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/02/22/nasa-announcement-live/

[Boing_737]

Nasa announcement: Will it announce the discovery of alien life at the 6pm press conference?

[PeteSpencer]

Nah: More Fake News.....

[Irv Lee]

I want to be an artist. Fancy getting paid to produce an artist's visual impression of a planet so far away ... draw a circle, shade to look sort of interesting and spherical, sell to BBC webpage editor, send in invoice. Easy life.
(Edit: just clicked on telegraph link above... not just BBC, someone has sold them one too!)

[Dave W]

10/1 the announcement is along the lines: "We are still finding exoplanets; here are a few of the most recent ones. Send more dollars".

[Paultheparaglider]

They are going to put a wall around the moon, and the Russians and the Chinese are going to pay for it.

[leiafee]

Yep, exoplanets. 7 of them, earth sized, three in habitable zone arounf a red dwarf. Really rather close to each other (close enugh they'd have tides based on one another even in the absence of any moon(s) which is weird and cool)

40 light years from us, mind!

[Morten]

We need that warp drive.
Or at least something which can get us to a sensible fraction of c

Btw - did anyone catch the UKspace 'New deal' yesterday?

There was also this call for feedback on the draft spaceflight bill...

The right noises are being made.

(Sorry - thread drift...)

Morten

[Spooky]

We need that warp drive.
Or at least something which can get us to a sensible fraction of c

Btw - did anyone catch the UKspace 'New deal' yesterday?

There was also this call for feedback on the draft spaceflight bill...

The right noises are being made.

(Sorry - thread drift...)

Morten

There you go

http://warpdriveinc.com