What if the Europa Lander finds complex life under the ice of Europa in the 2040s or whenever it arrives? Imagine discovering that life coincidentally also exists so close to our planet, and then remembering that we've been broadcasting radio signals over hundreds of light years for the last two hundred years.
um... europa is in the past, uncwe're /enceladus/ here
>>16964084they're doing the enceladus lander first but there's no way they don't bring back the europa lander once the europa clipper is done doing it's job
>>16964073Nothing would happen, there are many places in the solar system that could have or did have life in the past. Actually finding it doesn't really change anything on a day to day level even if it's scientifically interesting. The biggest impact would probably be another rushed mission there again and perhaps missions to other ice moons to investigate those too.
has anyone ever thought how weird the water in these moons would be, no dissolved oxygen--because of no great oxygenation even, sparse mineral composition compared to earth, probably different hydrogen isotopes, if we drank it, would we die, would it taste the same
>>16964073it's equal parts funny, sad and frightening that people can look at this picture and think it's a real "moon" of some distant "planet"
>>16964073>we've been broadcasting radio signals over hundreds of light years for the last two hundred years.nope. our radio broadcasts fade out over distance they dont travel forever. they'd be too weak to even detect from beyond a light year. you need extremely powerful directed bursts to do that
"All these worlds are yours—except Europa. Attempt no landing there."
>>16964188back to /x/ with you.
