Proposed NASA Europa Mission To Drill Into Icy Crust Of Jupiter Moon To Search For Alien Life

Tech Times ^ | February 11, 2017 | Allan Adamson

[C19fan]

The NASA-employed Science Definition Team has been crafting a plan to launch a mission that would search for alien life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

The extraterrestrial world of Europa is considered as among the most likely places in the solar system to have the ability to support life as we know it. Scientists have gathered evidence that the salty ocean that lurks beneath the icy crust of the moon could be hospitable to life. Recent models also hint that the icy world can produce oxygen and hydrogen, which suggests it may have the necessary energy to support life.

[C19fan]

Looks like us humans are ignoring the warning from the makers of the Monoliths.

[Red Badger]

All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no ...................

[Red Badger]

Recent models also hint that the icy world can produce oxygen and hydrogen...

Same models that predict 'Glowbull Warming'?.................

[SkyDancer]

Should try drilling in Chicago first.

[knarf]

Who THINKS up these things and do we actually go ahead and program the minds of thousands of people to think it is normal to fly to a moon of a planet (not the planet itself), (develop a drill that will) drill down through the surface in order to find something they can call "life" ?

And suppose they actually DO all this .... then what ?

I am all for space exploration. I'm even in for the search for intelligent, non human life, but I don't think it is below the surface of a Jupiter moon.

[cgbg]

I'm even in for the search for intelligent, non human life, but I don't think it is below the surface of a Jupiter moon

I have been on a search for human intelligent life on Earth--and it has been tough going--I need more Federal funding. :-)

[ETL]

[C19fan]

I think there is a good chance. There is a liquid ocean under the ice. Much better chance on Europa than Mars.

[dartuser]

That’s not the point though ... the point is to show that there is nothing special about Earth ..

[Yo-Yo]

[Red Badger]

The next novel in the series, by Clarke, explains why...................

[knarf]

What, a topographical map of California rivers, creeks and highways ?

[Verginius Rufus]

What do you know? Trump becomes President, and right away NASA is diverted from its primary mission, that of celebrating Muslim contributions to science.

[stylin19a]

is it our arrogance to assume life can only be sustained according to earth standards ?

perhaps europa has unseeable\unkowable life in the ice that we destroy by drilling.

[mythenjoseph]

Thomas Dolby has a great tune entitled “Europa”....check it out.

[ETL]

is it our arrogance to assume life can only be sustained according to earth standards ? perhaps Europa has unseeable\unknowable life in the ice that we destroy by drilling.

Or, that gets really pissed off by the drilling and comes after us! :)

[RadiationRomeo]

Malevolent aliens were imprisoned beneath the ice ages ago, only to be freed by unsuspecting Earthers.

[marron]

Do it. Please do it.

[Mr. K]

They should not assume it is just simple life- they should account for the possibility that it could be intelligent life, and say “hello”

Or, see if they have a sense of humor (”Hello- do you taste like chicken?”)

[ETL]

"Negotiating an underwater tunnel [beneath the ice] to gain the island's interior, those aboard U-33 are amazed to discover a tropical prehistoric world kept warm by volcanic forces.

Here dinosaurs that should be long extinct live and roam, as do a curious race of humanoid savages that appear to exhibit all the various phases of Man's evolutionary development. To survive long enough to repair and replenish the U-boat, wartime enemies must put aside their differences and cooperate with one another. But not everyone is playing from the Kumbaya songbook...

http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/cult_movies/land_time_forgot.htm

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"Negotiating an underwater tunnel [beneath the ice] to gain the island's interior, those aboard U-33 are amazed to discover a tropical prehistoric world kept warm by volcanic forces.

Here dinosaurs that should be long extinct live and roam, as do a curious race of humanoid savages that appear to exhibit all the various phases of Man's evolutionary development. To survive long enough to repair and replenish the U-boat, wartime enemies must put aside their differences and cooperate with one another. But not everyone is playing from the Kumbaya songbook...

http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/cult_movies/land_time_forgot.htm

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