What will it be? Life but not as we know it Jim? They've found a copy of Life on Mars by David Bowie actually on Mars? They've found the ball from Nicky Bailey's penalty effort? A B52 bomber / London bus? Somebody's shoe?
Or will it be something less world changing like they've found a bit of hydrogen under a rock?
Any predictions?
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My guess is that they are going to announce one of two things today.
1. The original research done on the salt water images was flawed, the assumptions are wrong, the analysis was inaccurate and the conclusion needs to be changed: there is no flowing salt water on Mars, everything published in 2011 was wrong.
or...
2. More discoveries have taken place that are closely related to the 2011 findings. For this to be a "major" news item, the most likely scenario is that they have discovered early life form evidence. And, as the salt water can be shown still to be flowing, the evidence is of existing life forms, rather than fossilised, ancient, deceased life forms. In other words, they have found something living. (If I were to guess any further, it would be that they have found something living in the zone at the edge of the flowing water, in other words something that lives on a "shoreline" and can exist in water or out of it. The Earth equivalent being a small crab, mussel or crustacean).
If you have read this far, thank you. There's one more bit to go..!
I think 1 is much less likely than 2. The reason? One of the guests invited to the news conference is Lujendra Ojha. I think it's very unlikely they would invite him to front up to the world's media if they were just going to trash his research.
I think he's done worse than this though. In 2004, he contributed a cover of Pulp's "Common People" with William Shatner for Shatner's album "Has Been":
dailymotion.com/video/x7ztwb_joe-jackson-william-shatner-common_music
You guys have let me down!