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NASA reveals Saturn's moon Enceladus has ALL of the ingredients for life after discovery [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 13, 2017 | Victoria Allen and Cheyenne Macdonald

Posted on 04/13/2017 11:30:21 AM PDT by C19fan

Scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that alien life may exist.

All the building blocks for life have been found for the first time away from Earth, NASA announced – within our solar system.

The hunt for alien life is set to begin on Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth largest moon, after the NASA spacecraft Cassini’s deepest ever dive into its cracks found hydrogen gas.

This hydrogen is now said to be ‘a potential source of chemical energy that could support microbes on the seafloor of Enceladus,’ the researchers revealed during a NASA press conference today.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: life
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To: C19fan
They won't find life there. The odds against life developing on it's on own on earth is impossible. The odds against life developing on it's own in our universe is impossible. It's so impossible that the multi-verse theory needed to be created. The multi-verse postulates that there are an infinite number of universes and we just happened to be in the one that overcome the impossible.

God created life and man is the apex of that creation.

21 posted on 04/13/2017 12:23:47 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Phlap

Hop on over to my asteroid next fly-by and I’ll show you firsthand.


22 posted on 04/13/2017 12:24:34 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: Teacher317

There’s evidence that Europa’s subsurface ocean is too sulfurous for life to exist. It’s thought to be similar to Io near the core, with undersea volcanos spewing sulfur compounds. They’d be too caustic for single cell organisms.


23 posted on 04/13/2017 12:27:26 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: DannyTN
I think something was growing on my enchilada the other day.

Happens to me sometimes but I ignore it until it starts moving..........

24 posted on 04/13/2017 12:28:09 PM PDT by varon (There's always room for one more on the hanging tree.....)
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To: C19fan

Most people have not heard of the Tardigrade. Here is a youtube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W194GQ6fHI


25 posted on 04/13/2017 12:28:31 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: covertInLA
I disassembled a watch and piled the pieces on the ground. Any time now they will assemble into a watch, which is probably a trillion times less complex than any cell in your body.

Good supportive analogy. Sort of like if you put hundreds of monkeys in a room with a typewriter, at some point one will write a poem or book. Not! A bit more involved than that, requiring the master builder's hands.

26 posted on 04/13/2017 12:42:04 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: C19fan

But you’ll need a jacket.


27 posted on 04/13/2017 12:58:41 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Teacher317

Now, “Dave”!


28 posted on 04/13/2017 1:09:29 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I always find these statements annoying. However, I will correct the annoying part for you. :-)

“...ocean is too sulfurous for life, AS WE KNOW IT, to exist.”

The height of hubris is these scientists believing they know it all about LIFE! NOT!


29 posted on 04/13/2017 1:20:00 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Teacher317

That was a good bet until they discovered that the radiation level around Jupiter is about 1 million rad.

Life under those conditions would be horribly deformed and psychotic. We would have to call it Homo Pelosius.


30 posted on 04/13/2017 1:27:58 PM PDT by Seruzawa (I keel you Vorga feelthy.)
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To: Seruzawa

Obama Erectus?


31 posted on 04/13/2017 1:28:37 PM PDT by Seruzawa (I keel you Vorga feelthy.)
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To: SgtHooper

I said there’s evidence, not fact. It may not be arrogant to hope for life in the universe, but to overestimate the odds does seem desperate, as if our own requires more meaning by confirming it elsewhere.


32 posted on 04/13/2017 3:25:12 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Teacher317
My money is on Europa

Attempt no landings there.


33 posted on 04/13/2017 3:29:28 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: Teacher317
My money was always on Europa

We'll be the Pirate Twins again...
34 posted on 04/13/2017 3:31:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: C19fan

The same scientists who claim that there are lots of planets that can sustain life, also claim that if our planet becomes 1/2 degree warmer it will become uninhabitable.

Can’t win with these guys.


35 posted on 04/13/2017 5:34:56 PM PDT by unlearner (So much winning !!! It's Trumptastic!)
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