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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."
They could be hiding weapons of mass destruction there.
Nice trolling you twit... like this question hasn't been answered before.. not even going to bother answering here.. someone will probably bite anyway..
Oh, sorry, Europan probe.
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
I get more radiation from Uranus than Europa gets from Saturn.
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I'm not trolling. I seriously would like to read someone's thoughts on this topic. Just because I'm challenging you to think about it doesn't mean that I'm trying to piss you off. That's your own decision.
(Now this one is much more troll than my original post)
Whiner.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
> 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.
You're pretty ignorant, aren't you? Why not look at how the tests changed the lives of many of the people living around the test areas.
Insightful? Moderators - get a clue! The quality of discussion on SlashDot is woeful! One minute with Google would have disclosed plenty of information to rebut that ridiculous claim. I guess the truth isn't important to some people.
"Doesn't Europa lie in the Van Allen belts of Jupiter, so it is already getting large amounts of radiation?"
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Van Allen belts? Puuuuuuuuuulease. That's like the scientists who feared people would instantly die if they travelled in automobiles that could surpass 35mph, that it would melt their faces off. After all, didn't our astronauts survive going through the Belts on their way to the Moon in the poorly shielded Apollo capsules? I don't think they returned looking like something you'd buy at KFC. Or did they?
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Ha ha, yep, another doom-and-gloom envirowacko. Fuck you!
...Ocean contaminates YOU!
What is this obsession with life? Isn't it just some chemical process involving particular elements, one that humans as organisms just happen to have a particular affinity for?
This probe is merely a speck on a speck on a speck of the total matter that makes up this "untouched" moon. Even if it did kill off life it certainly isn't going to make any difference to Europa!
Suggested response: Get over it. The universe will go on pretty much as it always has even if we succeed in killing ourselves off.
You mean its not just Kim Jong Il and Saddam that endorsed him? I mean why else wouldn't he tell us who supports him?
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