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Russia to Search For Life on Europa
porkpickle writes "Russia plans to participate in a European mission to investigate Jupiter's moon Europa and search for simple life forms. The head of the Space Research Institute, Lev Zelyony, said a project to explore the giant gaseous planet Jupiter would shortly be included in the program of the European Space Agency (ESA) for the years 2015 to 2025."
In Soviet Russia, simple life forms look for YOU! Wait a minute...
On Europa, Soviet Russians look for YOU!
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Due to the gentle noble-savagery of the Russians, there will be little to no danger of contaminating or harming any possible life Europa may have.
Aren't they a bit behind schedule? I thought this was going to happen in a couple years.
Oh wait, that wasn't a documentary was it...
With a population of over 710 million, life is abundant in europe. There is however no strong evidence for intelligent life. I kid. ;)
Why are they expending so much money on searching for life on Europa?
It's Soviet Russia, dammit! Have Europan life search for you!
Hey go for it, we should all support going into space as this planet is screwed.
Everyone knows that in Soviet Russia, mother nature screws you... so that sort of environmentalist talk is uncalled for.
I got a catholic block.
that because the moon never had life that no where else did?
Seriously, mars and now this...
If they some day find life, how do they know they haven't brought it from here on their missions?
Someone needs to tell them that their new 2010 DVD is just a movie.
except Europa. Attempt no landing there.
Always trying to sneak a peek in my Europa...
So basically, -1 troll/offtopic is really slashdots way of saying "I hate that you thought of something before me."
can't these big governments just listen for once? Cue Ron Paul fundraiser.
In Soviet Russia, stars are full of it?
For some reason, I read the headline as "Russia to Search For Life on Europe." And giggled.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
All these world are belong to you, except Europa. You have no chance to land there make your time.
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
except Europa. Attempt no ... Oh, forget it. Our immigration policy useless -- no border fences, free medical care and education for illegal aliens and now our politicians are talking about amnesty. Go ahead an land.
NASA needs outside competition. Otherwise, they just devolve to being a big pork-barrel project for Houston Texas and defense contractors. Outside competition got us to the moon. Maybe it will get us to Mars and Jupiter?
Forget the Arthur. C. Clarke meme... I'm speaking as in a for-real 'we ain't going there yet' agreement that space-faring nations had agreed to, at least until they can come up with some sort of exploration set-up that can search for life there without risk (or at least an acceptably minimized risk) of contaminating the underlying ocean with Earth-borne bacteria.
I could've sworn that there was something in place to that effect... sort of the same reason why the Russians held off from their efforts to drill all the way down to Lake Vostok in Antarctica.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
In soviet russia, Euoropa probes you.
You can be sure that they will welcome their Russian overlords. :)
:p
Europeans also love Vodka and play chess to keep warm!
Personally, I welcome our Soviet Russian overlords.
Have gnu, will travel.
If it wasn't for Bush's NASA cuts to divert more funding into the Moon, we would've been developing this for YEARS already.
Everything I've seen so far indicates it will be incredibly difficult and expensive to thoroughly decontaminate a spacecraft in order to ensure that Earth-based organisms don't "piss on the Petri Dish". The Russians are notorious for cutting corners, and their prime motivation for this exercise is political. The chance that they'll spend the extra millions of dollars to ensure the sterility of a Europa lander is non-existent.
I see a serious potential for compromising what appears to be one of the better spots in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
And this is exactly what you get when you actually go out wanting to find life and look in the most obvious place. This is low-hanging fruit and hopefully a race will start to get some smart exploratory packages over there before we're dead.
they WILL find life of course, because Putin said so.
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wow you guys are ALL completely missing the point!
w the stupid memes repeated 8 times
did anyone RTFA? did anyone watch the video?
they are sending ROBOTS TO EUROPA! they are going to GET UNDER THE ICE! and find life!!!!!
Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.
people search for even colder place because permafrost is thawing.
http://www.informedresponse.co.uk/environews/?p=39
One muddy mess. No wonder they want to go somewhere cold.
Je me souviens.
who thought they were looking for life on Europe?
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
I had to re-read the headline a couple of time because the first few times I thought I read "Russia to search for Intelligent Life on *Europe*" LOL..
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First, this is not a Russian mission, but a European one that Russia is saying they will participate in, FROM THE SUMMARY, not even TFA. Second, the "there-sure-are-none-here" would apply to a search for intelligent life. This mission is for finding bacteria or other simple life, and there sure are some here. Is it just Monday, or is this level of laziness (obvious from a cursory glance) typical of Taco?
No mod points today.
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Yeah, Sibiria simply ain't what it used to be. Sending people there is soon like sending them to a Club Med, so we need something new.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Damn...I thought they were sending us on vacation to Italy.
If you've never been modded as "flamebait" or "troll," you've never tried to argue a minority viewpoint here!
If you keep it up, you can eventually get promoted to Senior Shouting Officer, and there are not usually many vacancies for non-Shouting and non-Pushing People About Officers, so I think you ought to stick to what you know.
Russia has been the worlds largest producer for a couple years, producing nearly a billion dollars worth per day. They also have excellent scientists. Sounds like a great combination.
...and those damn Russians should know, a big part of Russia is on Europa.
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No, I didn't read TFA... am I supposed to do that ?
Ah, the wrath of the illiterate moderators.
For the idiot moderators who didn't get the joke: Russia is sending a spacecraft to Europa. In Orwell's 1984, Russia was part of Eurasia. Oceanica was alternately at war with Eurasia and Eastasia, and change written history each time to show they've always been at war with the same power.
Pie. Easy as -pie-.
In Western Capitalism, commerce controls you!
Soviet Russia joke screws up YOU!
If there are any simple life forms on Europa, I hope they don't land on 'em.
He was despondent that after 103 comments nobody had offered to check uranus.
free medical care and education for illegal aliens
It's usually the children of illegal immigrants that are receiving free education, and that's because they are usually US citizens. "Free medical care" doesn't exist per se in the US; what exists is emergency treatment, and that is provided to illegals not to encourage illegal migration, but because we don't want Americans to die in the emergency room because we can't establish whether they are citizens.
now our politicians are talking about amnesty
Talking about? Large scale amnesty programs have been around for many decades.
... It's full of stars!!!
Reply In Western Capitalism, commerce controls you!
Nice try
It should be "In Western Capitalism, commerce controls the government."
Well, we've democracy. So the government is you.
Mod parent funny!
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