Saturn's moon Enceladus might have an ocean ...... or something

[1338 h4x0r]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/24/enceladus-does-and-does-not-have-a-global-ocean/

Personally, I'm holding out for a mission to the subsurface of Europa

[GorgeousGabe]

Can't wait to find something out there. . . that'll make me so happy

[1338 h4x0r]

What would be really awesome would be seeing images of multicellular, macroscopic life beamed back to us from the oceans of Europa, like blind fish or something

It's a little outlandish I guess but it could happen

[Light Flantastic]

idk why people get excited about water its not like its a pre-requisite for life

[1338 h4x0r]

Titan might also harbor life

Hell, Carl Sagan suggested that there might be life in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere, made of thin hydrocarbon membranes

[GorgeousGabe]

From what we know, it is. And if we go by what we know, we're about 1,000,000 times more likely to find something than if we don't go by what we know

[Light Flantastic]

From what we know, it is. And if we go by what we know, we're about 1,000,000 times more likely to find something than if we don't go by what we know

gabe

stop posting

[Gattsu347]

Titan is a weird *** place. liquid water mixes with ammonia and makes this really viscous lava type material that erupts from under the surface. or so my astronomy class told me. sounds speculative to me, but still pretty weird.

[GorgeousGabe]

You asked why we are looking for water. Obviously I am going to give you a simple explanation

[Light Flantastic]

You asked why we are looking for water. Obviously I am going to give you a simple explanation

if by simple you mean incorrect then yeah

[Mr. Ron]

space i pretty cool I propose we send all of our garage into it with undesirables

[Gattsu347]

space

the final frontier

[ashman]

Titan is a weird *** place. liquid water mixes with ammonia and makes this really viscous lava type material that erupts from under the surface. or so my astronomy class told me. sounds speculative to me, but still pretty weird.

The Ammonia on Titan is comparable to water on Earth according to the Cassini-Huygens mission (if I remember rightly).

[Aaron]

I'd be more excited if governments stop spending on outlandish space missions, and instead corrected their debt at home first.

[1338 h4x0r]

The "basic research has no use" fallacy

[Smokey D]

It's a legitimate complaint, actually.

the complaint being that he doesn't care about long term benefits that might flow from deep space exploration or at least he doesn't care more than he cares about pressing issues at home.

If you're going to call that fallacious you have to call any sort of prioritization fallacious and that's just dumb.

[1338 h4x0r]

Well we need basic research to advance

[Smokey D]

Yeah presumably we also could do with reduced debt ratios too.

Or basic research in other areas.

[Aaron]

I'm just a simple economist. I think we should pay for what we've purchased before we buy a new toy.

[1338 h4x0r]

Yeah presumably we also could do with reduced debt ratios too.

Or basic research in other areas.

Watch all episodes of Cosmos or read the book and you will understand why space exploration is vital

[Smokey D]

Watch all episodes of Cosmos or read the book and you will understand why space exploration is vital

I dunno, read an economics text book and you'll understand why low debt ratios are pretty good too.

Or read a medicine textbook and you'll understand why cancer research is vital.

[1338 h4x0r]

Japan has a huge debt ratio lol

Even now, we're in pretty good shape

[Smokey D]

Thanks man.

[Aaron]

Japan has a high debt ratio ergo irresponsible spending by the US is okay.
lol wut?

[1338 h4x0r]

Spending on the space program is much more responsible than ridiculous governmental ceremonies

Let's slash their funding first lol