Really, NASA?

This morning, Nicko sent me some exciting news:

"NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years."

ET? Habitable planets? Who knows! There was conjecture that NASA had hired a PR department, because this seems unlike their traditionally dorky-public-relations-and-also-sometimes-error-riddled MO.

Ooooh! So we both waited with bated breath, even to the point of my postponing dinner (so this is obviously a big deal) for a few minutes. What WAS cool was that we got to hear the actual press-conference-call, so it's not like we were behind major news outlets; we were all finding out at the same time. However, pretty soon we were let down.

The big discovery? The most recent supernova in our galaxy. Sigh. Thanks, anyway, NASA. Obviously I left for dinner pretty soon, but what I DID hear that was interesting was they're should be way more supernovas than there currently are observed in our galaxy. Therefore, Nicko and I deduced, we have alien neighbors protecting us from them.

Dinner was not good.