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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. Dune by amightywind · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." -- Muad'dib

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    an ill wind that blows no good
  2. Re:Typical anti-science by cliffski2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    what the hell? so you reckon after a few bungled 'trials' that you are happy for innocent little companies like monsanto to decide what goes in the food we eat? Sorry if this sounds 'anti-science' but I don't trust GM food, I see no reason for it given that organic food tastes just great and has worked fine for thousands of years. Here in the UK we have learned from BSE not to trust big corporations to decide whats healthy for us when they put crap in our food.