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Melting Europa
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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Do your arms get tired from hugging those trees that tightly?
I don't care if we mess up their planet, I hate those arrogant Europeans.
True story.
In the name of saving the bind sea turtle, all travel in the Arctic ahould be banned and any knowledge that was gained from past explorations should be forgotten.
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2. What next? Drill Sedna for oil?"--There must have been life for there to be oil, you insensitive clod! Oh wait, maybe that is why they're so desparate to find evidence of life elsewhere!
Can I bum a sig?
on that rock to fill a space cruiser!
Save me Jeabus!
but it would be nothing compared to the hatred these radioactive, mutated, super alge would have.
That would be some expensive exclusive bottled water.
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Now, a planet named after a miserable women who marries her father's dog is fair game...
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Lets get them before they evolve and get us...
Along the same idea: Near my Dad's house they are currently doing a lot of logging, so a lot of protestors have been seen in the area, damaging equipment, sabotaging trucks, etc.
So now there are signs up everywhere stating:
"NO TRESPASSING!
And if you are an environmental activist, try wiping your butt with plastic toilet paper!"
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What part of "All these worlds are yours, execpt Europa. Attempt no landings there." don't they understand?
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- In addition the moon probably gets way more raditation from Saturn...
That would be a neat trick, considering how close the Jupiter moon, Europa, is to, uh, Jupiter.-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
I think we should start spending more money on the search for intelligent life on earth, because this article poster contributes to the notion that their is none.
Who's more the troll, the troll or the troll who responds?
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
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
The same time it would take for a drill in your head to find a brain.
>>I'd like to see the leaky probe that could rival Jupiter itself in bombarding Europa with radiation.
Yeah, but that's *natural* radiation, not the unhealthy manmade stuff.
Wait, I see a tree that needs a hug. See ya!
Oil on Sedna? On a dirty, utterly cold rock on the very edge of the Solar system? On a rock that even NASA hesitate to call a planet? Let me guess, you are the product of the US high school system with intellectual skills honed to perfection by watching Fox News?
You could poison Europa's environment and possibly destroy any life down there!
...With DihydrogenMonoxide!
Think of all the DihydrogenMonoxide that would be released as a result of all this melting! It could be catastrophic!
-=Lothsahn=-
This is yet another example of why NASA should make more use of Ask Slashdot. We could have helped create a better rover AND saved Europa!
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christ do you people sit around all day _LOOKING_ for ways to complain and be outraged?
Why, yes. Yes we do.
Please avoid further mentions of Western religious figures.
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That probe looks huge! What is that, revenge for all the anal studies the little green men have been doing to humans all these years?
Thats what bunker busters are for...
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
Hey, I've got intelligence that shows that those microbes could evolve into sentient tool using creatures then develop and deploy weapons of mass destruction in a mere million years. If we wait to know for certain the first warning may be a mushroom cloud on Earth. Can we take that risk? We have to strike first!
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All These Worlds Are Yours Except Europa. Attempt No Landing There. Use Them Together. Use Them in Peace.
Help! Help! I'm covered in rediation! Get it off!.....
...What? What do you mean sunlight is radiation?
They'll always fear what they can't understand.
landing a spacecraft on Europa, where we have little knowledge of its atmospheric conditions, will be a formidable challenge.
Like killer aliens terraforming the universe? I swear those eggheads can't read:
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From CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/09/21/galileo.
Yup... We're going to be battling radioactive superbugs from Europa!
Since NAFTA has been such a smashing success, the government is looking for new places to send American jobs. A moon of Jupiter seems like a good place to start: not too far from home, no organized labor, no pesky Judeo-Christian holidays to hamper production. Outsourcing at its finest!
Did you see that probe thing? Looks like a diant dildo. We get to a moon, and the first thign we do is have sex with it. (Yeah, we drilled the moon too)
The male sex drive is at least as big as the solar system.
I'm just glad we have no plans to do it yo Uranus.
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And here I thought God's plan was for mankind to have dominion over creation. (Genesis 1:26,28)
That and to have sex and multiply...
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As many have pointed out, I don't think we have to worry about radiation since Europa is in Jupiter's radiation belts.
However, what we do have to worry about is the primitive fish-like people of Europa worshipping our probe like a god! Think of the cultural havok we could wreck on their primitive society!
And here I was thinking about how hard it would be to land a probe on ACID. I mean, you have to consider music selection, who's with you, how paranoid you should be, whether the bats with the glowing red eyes are real enough to worry about without looking like your insane by ducking randomly... I personally react badly with acid, so I'd have to say it would be pretty tough.
Yes, but did you see her naked? That's all that matters.
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You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
Look at Earth. We detonated atomic bombs both above and below the ocean surface, spraying tons of transuranics into our seas and atmosphere. It may have sucked to have been a coral at Bikini Atoll in the 50s, but the ecosystem didn't even blink, and in fact, the Atoll is one of the planet's greatest recreational diving sites.
Especially convenient is the fact that after a few hours of diving there you grow your own flippers.
I keed, I keed.
You know, like John Wayne, Henry Fonda.
I hear that Europa is full of dihydrogen monoxide
You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
water (and so ice) can stop radiation quite effectively
Yeah, but that also means that a world like Europa that may be made up almost entirely of water, and has much more water than all the oceans of Earth put together, has to be extremely immune to radioactive damage.
I don't know why envrionmentalists aren't happer that NASA is removing radioactive material from this planet. I mean, a lot of people complain about it, but only NASA is actually doing something about it.
"Guess what, we humans, as a race, own everything in the solar system. It is ours to do with as we see fit... other planets are being wasted until we make full use of them for humanity as a whole."
I think the Annunaki would have a problem with your logic. However, since they need to return all that gold they pilfered from Earth, I guess they cannot speak on such a subject with any moral authority.
"Right now, somewhere in this world, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love," - Peter Griffin, *Family Guy*
When Jane initially met Tarzan of the Jungle, she was immediately attracted to him, and during her questions about his life, she asked him how he had sex.
"Tarzan not know sex," he replied.
Jane explained to him what sex was.
Tarzan said, "Oh... Tarzan use hole in trunk of tree."
Horrified, she said, "Tarzan you have it all wrong, but I will show you how to do it properly." She took off her clothes and laid down on the ground. Here" she said, "you must put it in here!"
Tarzan removed his loincloth...stepped closer with his huge manhood and then gave her an almighty kick right in the crotch.
Jane rolled around in agony for what seemed like an eternity Eventually she managed to gasp for air and screamed, "What in the Hell did you do that for?!"
"Tarzan check for bees."
Hey, that article was completely Fair and Balanced
I think that everyone should stop flaming this poster for bringing up a valid point. How much is knowledge worth. Are we destorying the things we wish to study b/c of our irreverence for the lives we hold in our hands? Besides, you should really be making fun of how that probe looks like a giant metal wang.
It is big news in the election year over here. John Kerry claims that the leaders of Sedna have secretly endorsed him!
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Did you remember to put on your tinfoil hat before you posted that? Remember, they're always watching!
Marvin knew: "Think of a number, any number..."
They are called liberals.
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'Many' is a very odd spelling of 'possibly one'.
He must have been including his own fleet of probes.
Man, the monolith is not going to like this.
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If there is anything down there on Europa, it will probably eat the nuclear leakage for dinner and come back for seconds.
Umm, if something from Europa shows up asking for seconds, I'm sorta worried about what it's going do when we run out of nuclear sludge to feed it.
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