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Melting Europa

Posted by michael on from the you'll-come-a-melting-europa-with-me dept.

amigoro writes "After having contaminated Earth's Oceans, it seems that there are plans to send a probe drilling through Europa's ice sheet and explore the purported ocean below the crust. The plan seems to be to find Life there. But I wonder how long the time lag will be between the probe finding life, and a leak in the radioactive heater wiping all of it out."

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  1. Re:Utter Nonsense by thebatlab · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'll bet you're an american.

    Ok, relax it's just a joke..sort of :)

  2. Supremely bad idea... by BeCre8iv · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I can not think of a more stupid idea than strapping a nuclear reactor to a rocket and blasting it through our athmosphere. Can you possibly rate our chances alongside the shuttle record with all the safety checks that go with human cargo. so call me a tree hugger - makes no difference. You will be dead too.

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    This perpetual motion machine Lisa made is a joke, it just keeps getting faster and faster. - Homer
  3. Re:Forget them by Gubbe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Better arrogant than stupid, you idiot ame^H^H^H^H earthling!

  4. Re:Forget them by jwdb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You know, you may have said that as a joke, but Europeans say exactly the same thing about Americans, and they mean it (although not as strongly as 'hate', more dislike)... :(

    Jw

  5. Gosh... by WiseWeasel · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Gosh, you're right. I'd much rather believe what some guy named Paul wrote many centuries ago (a.k.a. the Bible), and take that for the absolute, unquestioned truth, even though much of it flies right in the face of our knowledge of the laws of physics. People are so dumb...

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  6. "a leak melting the ice"? by whitroth · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Dear Idiot,

    How big is the nuclear power supply? I believe the standard units are on the order of a few kilos. How much of, say, all the ice in Antarctica could you melt with that?

    mark "Space is big. Space is really, reall,
    I mean, REALLY BIG...."

  7. Re:It's Open Mic Night at the Astrophysics Lounge! by randomencounter · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Does it really fit all the observed data? Because we have observed that the Earth appears to be 3-4 Billion years old and have found evidence of many events more than 6000 years ago.

    Now, I have heard the argument that HE created it that way, but that argument leads directly into the existential fallacy so I don't buy it.

    Creationism is a dogma with no predictive or postdictive power, therefore it is FALSE!

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