• Scientists find water plumes shooting off Jupiter moon
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[QUOTE=Psychokitten;43170054]We should tape a 10 mile wide "No Smoking" sign to Titan's surface. Wouldn't want the whole planet to go up in flames, would we?[/QUOTE] Sure, if there was any diatomic oxygen available for combustion.
Maybe in a couple of years The Europa Report can actually be a thing Sweet.
[QUOTE=Mr.95;43167645]Sorry if I'm mistaken but isn't this kind of late? I could of sworn I saw a documentary a while back with Alex Philipenko and Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about this thing.[/QUOTE] You're mistaken. We knew Europa was covered in ice and probably had liquid water underneath, but this the first observation to confirm it.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;43167293]It'd be cool if there was some sort of life in the underground ocean.[/QUOTE] Japanese wet tentacle dream [editline]13th December 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Big Dumb American;43169757]It also sends a powerful message to any extraterrestrial future terrorists. Don't fuck with planet America.[/QUOTE] Or it extraterrestrials would understand it as "fuck this civilization are a bunch of hi-tech savages! We need to destroy them before they slowly start to destroy the rest of the universe..."
[QUOTE=lirro433;43171759] [editline]13th December 2013[/editline] Or it extraterrestrials would understand it as "fuck this civilization are a bunch of hi-tech savages! We need to destroy them before they slowly start to destroy the rest of the universe..."[/QUOTE] If they were anything like us, aliens would probably find us boring and stupid, unless we were the only other sapient race they'd encountered. "Look at these assholes, firing nuclear weaponry at their own system's planets for fun like the morons they are. So glad we moved past that shit centuries ago."
[QUOTE=BreenIsALie;43170042]Or lakes of farts to quote the well spoken Brian Cox[/QUOTE] Can I drown an Ewok in it?
[QUOTE=LarparNar;43169983]Methane. [editline]13th December 2013[/editline] Yes.[/QUOTE] Condensed methane then? Which is basically what LPG is, close enough
[QUOTE=Mingebox;43172174]Can I drown an Ewok in it?[/QUOTE] as much as you can drown something in an entirely airless environment, yeah
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;43167286]I suppose it isn't a moment too soon that they found a water source; given what's happening in the world at large these days we may be forced to mine water from off-planet just to keep the cycle turning.[/QUOTE] Are you one of those people who thinks when water evaporates it just goes into space?
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