Just a thought, but even if there's no life there, water is extremely useful to us. It of course supplys us with drinking water, but can also be used as a propulsion system by superheating it and shooting it through a nozzle; it can be seperated into hydrogen and oxygen for fuel and breathing; if there are sufficient tides the water could be used to drive generators. Water means we ourselves could go there and expect to have some valuable resources when we get there. Combined with the energy possiblities in Io, this world might be a good place to put a rest stop if we ever explore out that far.
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Just a thought, but even if there's no life there, water is extremely useful to us. It of course supplys us with drinking water, but can also be used as a propulsion system by superheating it and shooting it through a nozzle; it can be seperated into hydrogen and oxygen for fuel and breathing; if there are sufficient tides the water could be used to drive generators. Water means we ourselves could go there and expect to have some valuable resources when we get there. Combined with the energy possiblities in Io, this world might be a good place to put a rest stop if we ever explore out that far.