Saturn Moon Could Be Hospitable To Life

shmG writes to share that recent imagery from Saturn's moon Enceladus indicate that it may be hospitable to life. "NASA said on Tuesday that a flyby of planet's Enceladus moon showed small jets of water spewing from the southern hemisphere, while infrared mapping of the surface revealed temperatures warmer than previously expected. 'The huge amount of heat pouring out of the tiger stripe fractures may be enough to melt the ice underground,' said John Spencer, a composite infrared spectrometer team member based at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. 'Results like this make Enceladus one of the most exciting places we've found in the solar system.'"

Comments

Everybody knows this

[jpmorgan]

Seriously, NASA. Anybody who's ever eaten at a bad Mexican restaurant knows enchiladas are hospitable to all forms of microscopic life.

Re:Everybody knows this

[Culture20]

and spewing jets of liquid and gas.

Re:Everybody knows this

[pushing-robot]

True, but your only reference is Earth enchiladas. Theories on space enchiladas should be left to gastronomers.

Re:Everybody knows this

[dmomo]

But what if that's nacho field of expertise?

Obligatory 2010 Quote

[CohibaVancouver]

All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there.

Re:Obligatory 2010 Quote

[idontgno]

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. And Enceladus. And maybe TITAN, we haven't decided on that yet. BUT THE OTHERS, YEAH, ALL YOURS.
You know, on second thought, ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS ANYWHERE BEFORE CHECKING WITH US. KTHXBYE

Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

Apparently, slashdot feels like telling the omnipotent mysterious monolith what to do. Bad idea...

Re:Obligatory 2010 Quote

[Culture20]

You're saying Lucifer is the same as Jupiter??? And you haven't gotten a lightning bolt shoved up your ass yet??? GREEK MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT???

Jupiter the planet was renamed Lucifer (lightbearer) when it became a star. 2010: ODYSSEY TWO, DO YOU READ IT???

Re:Obligatory 2010 Quote

[Jason Levine]

Or, to mix two different references:

All these worlds are yours except Europa. And Enceladus. The two worlds that aren't yours are Europa and Enceladus... and Titan. The three worlds... no, amongst your worlds... amongst the worlds.... I'll come in again.

And, you know what?

[Minwee]

They probably still have better broadband there than in the US.

Re:Not impressed

[cupantae]

There is indeed a family of microbes driving around the solar system in a car made out of an asteroid. The father microbe is wearing a stiff peaked cap and smoking a corn-cob pipe. They are going to settle on Enceladus for a brief spell. The daughter microbe is excited about the water, but the son would have preferred cable.

Sorry if that's difficult to understand at all, but that's the currently accepted theory.

Re:Besides planet Earth

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

If your spouse were inhabited by 6 billion balding apes making kalashnikovs, mud bricks, and bad sitcoms, you'd stray too...

Re:Sailor Moon

[Foobar of Borg]

Depends. Did you picture the moon naked?

That depends. Is the Moon under the age of 18?

OMG

[pizzach]

I for one believe we already have enough hospitals. Building them on Saturn would bring no new inherent value.