NASA started the uproar with a single comment on its official website.  The quote reads, “NASA will hold a news conference at 2pm EST to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.”  Cue the wild speculation that NASA has found alien life! Is it a microorganism?  Is it E.T.?  No one knows for sure, but that doesn’t stop the speculation.

Blogger Jason Kottke says it’s a discovery related to arsenic on Titan, one of Jupiter’s moons.  The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal responded in a tweet, “‘I’m sad to quell some of the @kottke-induced excitement about possible extraterrestrial life.  I’ve seen the Science paper.  It’s not that.”

Nobody knows what NASA is going to announce, but what is known is that whoever wrote that press release and updated the NASA website with it is a GENIUS at creating buzz.  People love aliens, and love the idea of aliens making peaceful contact with us.  This is a great way to get NASA back in the news.  With good publicity comes funding, after all, and NASA needs all the cash it can get right now.

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