NASA has announce that at 2 PM on Thursday, December 2, it will hold an news conference "to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life." So far, no major news outlets have picked up on this. I myself only found out about this trawling the dregs of the internet for science related scraps. What will NASA's finding be? The Website Daily Galaxy thinks that the announcement will have something to do with Titan, the moon of Saturn that is known to be covered in a methane sea.
Ironically, NASA's attempt at generating interest in their announcement seems to be superseded by a group using a similar tactic: WikiLeaks. The diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks release is just about all anybody is talking about this week, though NASA's announcement is hopefully equally revealing. My personal guess is that , like the WikiLeaks document dump, it will contain important information, but will be ultimately ignored by the majority of the world. Based on the Daily Galaxy's prognostication, the best we can hope for is an announcement that some sort of bacteria-like organism is living in the Methane of Titan. While this is certainly important, it seems that at this point a lot of people seem to believe that finding evidence of life elsewhere in the Universe is an inevitability. Perhaps the fact that it likely exists in our own Solar System would be the biggest shock.
Again, this is all speculation, we'll have to see what NASA has to say on Thursday.
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