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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:Sedna, Sedna, Sedna ... by torpor · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oh.

    i thought you were talking about my aunt.

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  2. 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
  3. Re:Biased Poster? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And look who approved the story to begin with. Another worthless bit of moderating by the resident moron.

  4. 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.

  5. Re:Typical anti-science by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    the kind of person who opposes GM food not because it is unsafe, but because it has the word "genetic" in it.

    I oppose GM food because it has the word GM in it. The only thing worse would be Yugo food.