Huge potentially inhabited water lake found on Jupiter moon
In major extra-terrestrial news, scientists have announced the first discovery of at least one huge body of liquid water beyond planet Earth, offering confirmation at last of a potential offworld habitat for alien life. The water in question - roughly enough to fill one of the North American Great Lakes - has been spotted …
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ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS
EXCEPT EUROPA.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
... and the first ship to land there will be trashed by a weird giant ice-worm...
I WAS BORN IN A WATER MOON
Some people, especially its inhabitants, called it a planet, but as it was only a little over two hundred kilometres in diameter “moon’ seems the more accurate term.
Perfect man, just perfect.
(And what an example of seredipity - that your post managed to score the 1st post, all of the subsequent 2010 quotes have been made to look a bit silly :D)
Another SF story proven correct
cf. Arthur C. Clarke's "2010"
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
Before anyone asks
According to the US EPA, the average volume of one of the great lakes is 22,573 cubic kilometers, so about 9,029,200,000 Olympic swimming pools.
You're welcome
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE
All these worlds are yours, except--
--ALRIGHT! WE'VE _DONE_ THAT!
Has anyone mentioned 2010 yet?
Can't remember the quote, was something about EUROPA though.
We'll be the Pirate Twins again.
EURRRROOOOOPAAAAA
No wait, that was Thomas Dolby
ALL THESE SPACECRAFT ARE YOURS
EXCEPT THE ONES THAT HAVE THE SCARY WORD "NUKE-U-LAR" IN THEM. ATTEMPT NO LANDING WITH THEM.
Thank you
I wish I could upvote this one a couple hundred times. PETA, Greenpeace, and the rest of the illiterate treehuggers need to be the first into the black hole.
speaking as a tree hugger (re: JIMO probe)...
...I've mentioned my position on this in one of the Cassini threads, so I can only add JEEZUS H. CHRIST, YOU GUYS! IT'S NOT A WEAPONS SYSTEM! IT'S GOING TO FRICKIN' _JUPITER_, F'CRIPESAKE! NOTHING FRICKIN' _LIVES_ THERE! GET A GODDAMN' _GRIP_, ALREADY!
Phew. Thanks. I feel better now.
Yes, let's all parrot Lewis Page's take on the cancellation (far better than thinking for ourselves, after all):
"In the end, however, following protest over the idea of spacegoing reactors (and also for cost reasons) Jimo was cancelled."
Far more likely, however, is that NASA and partners were skint after yet another budget cut, made so that bankers and the finance industry can still have their champagne and hand-jobs, and so that the military and parasite industries can "splurge" on more war.
Don't pump enriched Uranium into the sky!
Pump depleted Uranium onto sand denizens!
Not a 2010 quote!
UNLEASH THE KRAKEN! THE EARTHLINGS ARE COMING!
I for one welcome....
Our tentacled, soggy Europan overlords!!
Yep - the life is right over there ...
... right next to the life we found on Mars.
Oh, wait.
now we have had our fun, calm down
the liquid below may be somewhat unpleasant to organics, let a lone life. Hydrogen peroxide from the surface ice radiation reactions and the possibility of geothermal vents making a sulphuric acid bath. One for the chemistry students. What would the resulting chemical broth be like ?
Lots of precipitating salts I suspect.
Lots of precipitating salts....
...along with a few bundles of hydrocarbons and a little bit of heat energy and what do we get???
mmm... perhaps not so unpleasant for organics after all if what grows around Earths geothermal vents is anything to go by....
not quite
Gunk. Don't see how you get to life from that mix. carbon stains in sulphate deposits are more likely. You make the common assumption life is self assembling. The peroxides and acid would be very effective at shortening long molecules.
> life not self assembling
> self-assemblers everywhere
Mfw
We have received a radio message from Europa!
They are asking for a bailout.
Virgin Galactic announces
Swimming holidays on Europa!
* Please bring your own towel.
swimming holidays on Europa?
Bring my own towel?
Well, luckily, I always know where my towel _is_. (Sorry, couldn't help it)
No nuke reactors in space eh?
What do these fools think powers the Sun???
Reactors in space isn't the issue - it's reactors a few km up in our atmosphere strapped to a device that has a bit of a tendency to explode.
(For the record I'm totally pro-nuclear and nuclear-in-space. Just that a few seem to have misunderstood the argument)
Now all we need is the Chinese to launch a probe to land on the surface.....
Perhaps if we fire enough boxes of Black Magic at Jupiter we can make Europa more hospitable for the swimming-tree-things ?
Next week.
Germany launches a mission to Europa, designed to place towels on all the best spots close to the water.
Ice sheets collapsing??
Better ban cars and coal fired power stations and set up some wind farms then!
Water on Europa
Last time I ordered water in the Europa hotel, it was one of those fancy San Pellegrino bottles, near cost £4!
Latest Euro-crisis news
Germany refuses to extend ECB credit lines to Europans.
Inhabited?
I wonder what could be living up there in these deep, dark, freezing waters. And where any such lifeform would feel most at ease if it was to land on Earth.
On a completely unrelated note, if you're planning an expedition in Antartica to investigate a strange, large metal object embedded deep in the ice, do yourself a favor and bring a spare gas tank for your flamethrower.
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