mars landing

[Tsakali]

I'm very hopeful for Europa. From what we know it seems to have a lot of potential. IMO landing a machine there with capable tools will be as exciting as the moon landing, and in a way far far more interesting.

Looks like it will cost them about 2.7 billion to pull that off. Seems to me a bit of a low end quote considering this mars rover cost about 2.2 bil. But either way, it's not extraordinarily out of scope like the estimated half trillion manned mission to mars, so here's hoping it will happen soon! like 8 - 12 years soon.

[0psys]

He doesn't think Europa has any life though. "probably not" was a direct quote.

He's probably right, but I'll keep hoping. I guess the only thing that does keep the hope alive is that every six months or so scientists keep finding life here on Earth where they don't expect to find it.

I think I like the idea of something being on Europa more than I do Mars. If it's on Mars, it's definitely just going to be microbial; on Europa it could be giant space sharks or shit like that.

[GONNAFISTYA]

Or three-titted mermaids.

[obsidian]

at least try some delicious Europa water

It's water that at no point of time came out of the penis/vagee of a T-rex. Bottle that shit up, market it with Hollywood tie-ins and sell it. We can label it EAUropa with a picture on the bottle of a 3-titted mermaid. $$$$!

[mrd]

at least try some delicious Europa water

It's water that at no point of time came out of the penis/vagee of a T-rex. Bottle that shit up, market it with Hollywood tie-ins and sell it. We can label it EAUropa with a picture on the bottle of a 3-titted mermaid. $$$$!

As long as the fish-half is the top half, I'm sold.

[GONNAFISTYA]

It's water that at no point of time came out of the penis/vagee of a T-rex.

ffs

Now you had to go and remind me that the water I'm drinking probably contains atoms that were sprayed out the ass of a rhino's ancestor. Fuck you.

[obsidian]

So what you're saying is, you'd buy a bottle of refreshingly pure EAUropa?

[GONNAFISTYA]

I'll take ten.

[Tsakali]

[Eraser]

Wherever there are humans, stupidity is guaranteed!

you two need to either go on a killing spree to cull the herd, kill yourselves, or shut the fuck up already

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[xer0s]

FYI, Curiosity is on the move...

[GONNAFISTYA]

The thing I find so surprising in all this is that there are no bleeding-heart Liberals lamenting the unprovoked invasion of another planet and there are no hate-anyone-but-you Conservatives who are bitching about Curiosity's illegal immigrant status on Mars.

[bitWISE]

Illegal immigrant? Sheeeeeeit, that there is US soil with exclusive mining rights reserved for Halliburton.

[seremtan]

not if ESA astronauts get there first - which, with the way NASA's budget is getting slashed, is looking increasingly likely

[Eraser]

Nah, the Chinese will conquer mars

[MKJ]

Mars One project seems most likely atm.

[Insensatez]

and arrogance. when GKY talked about potential life on Europa, he didn't mean life for us humans.

and yet, here we are with a rover on mars, we haven't had data from from the soil the spectrometer still needs to analyse, let alone found something organic overthere, and yet you're here talking about a moon that's almost 4 times farther away from Earth.

[GONNAFISTYA]

Insensatez has no idea how to follow a conversation and has no idea that not all life forms need to get their energy from the sun. It doesn't matter how far it is from the Earth you idiot.

[Captain]

Mars One project seems most likely atm.

Then it's only a matter of time before Hell invades us.

[Doombrain]

Insensatez has no idea how to follow a conversation and has no idea that not all life forms need to get their energy from the sun. It doesn't matter how far it is from the Earth you idiot.

Wellllll Europa only has a chance at 'complex' life when the sun goes nova, and only then for the blip in time it has before the sun cools. Basic single cell life, yes fair enough.

Anything under two cells gets hit by the below rule.

[GONNAFISTYA]

We aren't talking about "complex life"...just life. And as was pointed out several times, nobody is talking about whether or not it suits human life, which is what your chart of the Goldilocks Zone indicates.

[Doombrain]

k then

[Whiskey 7]

Someone mumbled/mentioned somewhere about photos of UFOs taken by the Curiosity rover.

Anyone hear of same?

[Eraser]

Haven't they (JPL) already said that it was dust on the lens?

[Insensatez]

Insensatez has no idea how to follow a conversation and has no idea that not all life forms need to get their energy from the sun. It doesn't matter how far it is from the Earth you idiot.

I wasn't talking about the sun, and all life in the universe being dependant on it (or any star for that matter), I was talking about having actual evidence, not plausibility.

Same goes for saying it's plausible there's a teapot in orbit around the sun somewhere.