That's rather narrow minded. At what point in any bible does it say that God only created life here? The ones I've read state that God created the heaven, the stars, the sun, and all life on this planet, but I don't remember reading anything about this being the only place he put life.
At what point do we stop with the attitude, that we (humans) and our eco-system prevail over the entire universe? Assuming ANYTHING survived through all the radiation that the probe has been exposed to, what makes us think that it would survive in a hostile environment such as Europa? It's like the Antartica around the whole moon! Unless we built Galileo in the same type of environment as it would be exposed to on Europa, chances are everything would die the second it was exposed to the atmosphere. Not that I'm a biologist, but if an organism from earth were to come in direct and violent contact with an enviroment such as Europa (ie, the probe crashes into the oceans or Europa) it wouldn't be given any time to adapt to its environment and I would think it would go into shock and die. I mean: 1. It would have to survive the 11 year journey from earth and all the exposure of space. 2. It would have to survive a crash landing of a probe into the oceans of Europa. 3. It would have to be able to adapt to the harsh environment of a completely alien environment instantly. Sound possible to anyone....except in the movies? And by the way NASA, if you built a spacecraft specifically meant to find life on other planets, wouldn't you have taken the time to make sure that it wouldn't carry anything that would be considered a hazard to another enviorment? We spent 1.5 billion dollars on something that they now want to crash? They'll then want to build another one that will be 'sterile'! Oy Vay!....
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That's rather narrow minded. At what point in any bible does it say that God only created life here? The ones I've read state that God created the heaven, the stars, the sun, and all life on this planet, but I don't remember reading anything about this being the only place he put life.
At what point do we stop with the attitude, that we (humans) and our eco-system prevail over the entire universe? Assuming ANYTHING survived through all the radiation that the probe has been exposed to, what makes us think that it would survive in a hostile environment such as Europa? It's like the Antartica around the whole moon! Unless we built Galileo in the same type of environment as it would be exposed to on Europa, chances are everything would die the second it was exposed to the atmosphere. Not that I'm a biologist, but if an organism from earth were to come in direct and violent contact with an enviroment such as Europa (ie, the probe crashes into the oceans or Europa) it wouldn't be given any time to adapt to its environment and I would think it would go into shock and die. I mean: 1. It would have to survive the 11 year journey from earth and all the exposure of space. 2. It would have to survive a crash landing of a probe into the oceans of Europa. 3. It would have to be able to adapt to the harsh environment of a completely alien environment instantly. Sound possible to anyone....except in the movies? And by the way NASA, if you built a spacecraft specifically meant to find life on other planets, wouldn't you have taken the time to make sure that it wouldn't carry anything that would be considered a hazard to another enviorment? We spent 1.5 billion dollars on something that they now want to crash? They'll then want to build another one that will be 'sterile'! Oy Vay!....