NASA proposes nuclear ‘tunnelbot’ to search for alien life

https://www.foxnews.com/science/nasa-proposes-nuclear-tunnelbot-to-search-for-alien-life ^ | Jamie Seidel

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[SpaceBar]

Sounds like a good reason to pull the plug on NASA.

[Moonman62]

We’ve been warned not to go there.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A “nuclear tunnelbot” — sounds like the end of the world is nigh.

[bmwcyle]

There are many reasons to pull the plug.

[Wuli]

Sounds like not a bad thing that the Congress critter that prompsed the idea and helped get the NASA study funded (what was going to be his “skin in the game) lost his seat.

There are tons of stuff that NASA, DOD and others do only because (a) some Congress critter wants them done and arranges the funds for it in their budget and/or (b) it buys votes in Congress for NASA and DOD getting approval for things they alone really want to do.

[samtheman]

Nuke a hole in the ice, catch some of the escaping steam with an orbiter, send it home for a look-see.

[Still Thinking]

No need to spend taxpayer dollars on new stuff, we already have tech to watch aliens in action, known by the acronym C-SPAN.

[Still Thinking]

Nuke a hole in the ice, catch some of the escaping steam with an orbiter, send it home for a look-see.

What could possibly go wrong?

[BipolarBob]

Headlines 20 years later “Tunnelbot sends back message he’s been abducted and anally probed by aliens and asks Now What?”

[Still Thinking]

Tell him to start identifying as LGBT. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

[NorthMountain]

Quite the contrary. This is an example of NASA getting back to its mission of exploration. This has nothing to do with muzzies or glowbull warming.

[SpaceBar]

No, it's an example of government waste on steroids and ecstasy.

[Nateman]

The surface of Europa shows the ice has broken frequently with resulting flows from the ocean below ending up frozen on the surface. It would make more sense to send a Rover with a drill to check those out first.

[Leaning Right]

I know there are more wasteful projects out there. But should a debtor nation borrow money in order to send a ‘tunnelbot’ to Europa? I think not.

[dljordan]

I thought we were warned not to attempt any landings on Eupropa.

[NorthMountain]

Cut out the massive, cradle-to-grave welfare state, all of which by its very existence constitutes massive, unconstitutional fraud, waste and abuse.

Then we can talk about NASA.

[samtheman]

And who could possibly object?

[SpaceBar]

And this boys and girls is why we are twenty trillion in the hole.

“Gosh, look how much those other agencies spend, while our program is a bargain...”