What does /sci/ think about the recently approved mission to Europa? Do you think it might be a place colonies are set up in future?
>>7929364
It's a frozen hell hole with a surface temperature ranging from -160 to -220 Celsius.
>>7929364
We already have the Europa report
>>7929398
take a heater
>>7929625
Where are you going to get the energy to sustain it for any serious period of time?
>>7929542
How likely are we to find space squid there?
>>7929657
Life only exists on earth
>>7929666
>>7929364
A Europa mission, specifically, would be a total loss of taxpayer money.
>>7929657
i reckon there might be stuff similar to plankton. Would be cool to see
>>7929702
but how about fish, sea greens, and protein from the sea?
>>7929702
Can plankton eat humans? I'm scared.
>>7929364
Europa would be a suicide mission for any human due to the absurd temperature.
>>7929695
>worrying about short-term monetary losses
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>>7929364
>What does /sci/ think about the recently approved mission to Europa?
A good step forward.
>Do you think it might be a place colonies are set up in future?
Eventually, but it'd be far more likely that an orbital station would be made first. Sulfuric acid can be a bitch on equipment, but work-arounds can't be that difficult..
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>>7929637
Space is cold. We already have technology to deal with waste heat and insulate against cold/heat.
>Where are you going to get the energy to sustain it for any serious period of time?
It has sulfuric acid and water. I'm sure a heater using the exothermic reaction of combining both could be designed without too much trouble.
>>7929657
>>7929702
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>>7929786
More likely, you'd find organism similar to the Hydrothermal Vents in our own oceans. There are organisms that use the high sulfur content as their ecosystem energy base. From there it is just an upward evolution. Since there's so much sulfuric acid on and in Europa there should be life using it.
However, I wouldn't think there'd be any higher organisms that resembled our hydrothermal vent creatures simply because many of our species were originally visitors from other ecosystems who were marooned in the hydrothermal vent systems and further evolved along with it. Since they originally developed someplace else, they have features you see that are also in other creatures that never visit hydrothermal vent systems. So, who knows that a creature from a hydrothermal vent system on Europa would even look like.
>>7929364
>Do you think it might be a place colonies are set up in future?
The entire Jovian system is steeped in deadly cosmic radiation.
No humans will ever live there or visit there unless you want to get dead very quick.
>>7929740
>not realizing that I'm not an anti-space faggot, but that I am pointing out that the monoliths would shoot any probe down before it could complete a basic science mission on Europa, thus comprising a total loss
>>7929666
[citation needed]
