Perhaps they can contract this out to a company that already demonstrated they can get water and transport it long distances...
Posted on 03/09/2014 5:28:18 PM PDT by lbryce
DAMM! I love that movie and I should have thought of it first!
I guess if life started out on the surface and worked itself downward it theoretically might be much less likely to have started at all. If it’s there at all and was seeded or something by someone or something, if they are that level doesn’t seem like you would bother putting life on something where it couldn’t survive. If it started in the depths around vents with lots of ice and water above or something would the radiation even be a factor?
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That’s the first thing I thought of.....
> Spend the money to take care of earth bound problems first
Like the war on poverty?
More like paying down our debt. You forgot the /s tag...: )
I’m waiting for a 2061 odyssey three reference somewhere.
“If we are unable to download, remember us.” HALman in 3001 Final Odyssey
“We’ll be the Pirate Twins again...”
Perhaps they can contract this out to a company that already demonstrated they can get water and transport it long distances...
How many books are there in that series anyway?
Did I miss some, I wonder? I’m thinking I did.
2001, 2010, 2061, 3001.
I never got to read 2061 odyssey three.
Yep. Watch out for those things. They’re pretty nasty and obviously hungry for astronauts.
I guess I’m going to have to check out the local library, then.
I’ve been wanting to track down all four.
I have the last one in paperback.
Somewhere.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would be the first place to see alien life. I’m not sure if it is intelligent.
Absolutely correct. A nation with a large surplus can afford to spend money on pure exploration projects. But a nation with a large deficit cannot afford such a luxury.
And I say that as a person with some experience in pure research (chemistry).
Shouldn’t one expect some identifiable biological remnants on the these surfaces, noting the presence of eruptions on Europa, and good evidence for water from beneath breaking the surface of Enceledus? I’d think there’d be something we could detect spectroscopically.
They do see chemicals that indicate life on earth but lots of chemicals can exist without life. We once believed methane was produced only by life but there’s just too much of it for it all to have been made by life.
Titan has oceans of methane.
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