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Cassini Spots Geysers On Saturn's Moon Enceladus

An anonymous reader writes "Huge geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus may be fed by a salty sea below its surface, boosting the odds of extraterrestrial life in our own Solar System."

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  1. Implications of this finding are profound by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It means that if we find some kind of intelligent shrimp on Enceladus we will be able to eat them without adding salt.

    1. Re:Implications of this finding are profound by clem · · Score: 3, Funny

      Mmm. You can really taste the sentience, can't you?

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  2. Re:Good news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good riddance.

    Don't let the Van Allen Belt hit you in the ass on the way out.

  3. Re:Why not create our own ET life? by doconnor · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Maybe it's something we can transplant?"

  4. Re:change the headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are these similar to the methane geysers which were found recently to shoot out of Uranus ?

  5. Enchiladas by Saint+Stephen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did anyone else read that as Moon Enchiladas?

    Mmmm.. Moon enchiladas...

  6. Re:change the headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It is people like you, that give the people like me, that believe in God AND Evolution AND the possibility of life on other planets, a bad name...

    Are you referring to "Anonymous Coward"?

  7. Re:Ohhh the Straits Times! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    WHY NOT GO DIRECTLY TO THE SOURCE!?

    Thus far, both the Cassini probe and Enceladusians have not responded to my requests for interviews.

  8. Re:Ohhh the Straits Times! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This cracked me up int the article, "...hundreds of kilometres (miles) into space,..". Since when did miles and kilometers become interchangeable? Might have as well put the word 'kilometers' in the parenthesis...

  9. Re:Why not create our own ET life? by bgrantham · · Score: 2, Funny

    "You KNOW what she'll SAY..."

  10. Re:Which System? by Muad'Dave · · Score: 2, Funny

    Brutus's Rule: Never correct an 800 pound guorilla in the use or spelling of words.

    That's Brutus' Rule, and Gorilla, Brutus.

    8-)

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