Nasa Vs. Ramada: Who's Your Money On?

It's another case of David (Duane P. Snyder, 65, Michigan) versus Goliath (NASA, 52, America) to see who will first authenticate extraterrestrial life.

• 1. Duane P. Snyder

  

  His offerings are "unknown organisms" gathered from an "ice meteorite" he discovered a decade ago. You can buy $8 photos of these squiggles at snydericyrite.com, his website. No news report has yet been filed about the news conference he held yesterday at the Ramada Inn in South Haven.

• 2. Nasa

  

  Nasa's conference is slated for tomorrow in Washington DC, not at a motor inn but their own headquarters (show offs). Participants will include Mary Voytek, director, Astrobiology Program; Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA astrobiology research fellow, to name only a couple. The topic of "an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life" is to be discussed. ----------- Note: The above image or an alien skull is unlikely to be discussed.