NASA Probe Shows Evidence of Water in Europa - Polidicks

[QUOTE=iwork3daysaweek;33308645]I wonder what would be the effects on creationism if we found life.[/QUOTE] *crack*

[QUOTE=OvB;33308227]Oh god I hope there's life on Europa. I don't care if it's just a little blob wiggling around I just want [i]something.[/i][/QUOTE] You know there's probably some form of life just about everywhere. Bacteria can fuckin survive in space (bacteria survived for 550+ days in space, and returned back to earth, still alive), so I don't see why it can't develop in conditions that, compared to space, are paradise. I would say anywhere that there is a liquid. Any liquid, and you'll probably find life

[QUOTE=Kaarristu;33308167][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/ArthurCClarke_2010OdysseyTwo.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Damn it! Now I have to read the quadrilogy again!

Wow, but didn't we knew this from the beginning? If not, great news.

Shouldn't be a problem drilling through with this: [IMG]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4767960015_de40688d30.jpg[/IMG] All we need is Bruce and his team.:eng101:

[QUOTE=SlashSpeed;33312891]Shouldn't be a problem drilling through with this: [IMG]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4767960015_de40688d30.jpg[/IMG] All we need is Bruce and his team.:eng101:[/QUOTE] No, we need something better. [IMG]http://schiaragola.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mr-freeze.jpg[/IMG] Allow me to break the ice.

Awesome

[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;33309296]It's a mile thick, its problematic to drill with a probe, SO SEND IN THE FUCKIN SPACE MINERS [editline]16th November 2011[/editline] Let us dream man, don't you want to mine for squids?[/QUOTE] Travel back in time, kidnap Bruce Willis before he blows himself up, and make him drill to the core of Europa. He's the best drilling guy on the planet. Or well, was. Before he nuked himself to save our planet, and became a ghost in "6th Sense".

[QUOTE=Canuhearmenow;33308197]Well no shit, I thought people knew about this decades ago.[/QUOTE] People thought to know. Now they think to know more.

These lakes would give us a better access point, perhaps, but isn't the likelihood of finding life extremely marginal in near-surface lakes? With temperatures being so low, and with the limited nutrient potential of a lake contained in an ice pocket, it seems that life would have a difficult time forming in such a location. If there [I]is[/I] to be life found on Europa, I'd imagine it would be almost exclusively located in the deep, deep oceans, where heat from the moon's core might spark thermal vents and mineral/nutrient deposits. It'd be pitch black and cold as hell, obviously, so any life to be found would most likely have to be almost unimaginably efficient; which means no giant sea monsters. All life would probably be blind, very small, able to survive intense pressure, slow as molasses, simple in its biology, and hold very little appeal to anybody looking for neat alien pets. But I'm hardly an ocean biologist, so this is pretty much all discountable conjecture!

Yep, not to mention the moon is young. Not old enough to have large things. The ocean could be teaming with chemosynthetic plankton with very primative Invertebrates at the bottom near the stackers if there are any. That would stil be a significant find. The ocean could also be 20 miles deep in areas so pressure would be insane. For comparison, earths ocean is only 7 miles and that's rounded up. Ice is too thick to allow for photisynthesis so I'm not even expecting any green stuff.

Europa means europe in german, the title made me giggle :v:

Christians would go apeshit and do like what they did in the movie [I]Contact[/I]. They would blow up the rocket/probe designated to make first contact with the extra terrestrials.