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  Probing the mysteries of Europa, Jupiter's cracked and crinkled moon Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 15:14 -0500
    Re: Probing the mysteries of Europa, Jupiter's cracked and crinkled moon jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-27 20:31 +0000
      Re: Probing the mysteries of Europa, Jupiter's cracked and crinkled moon Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 15:52 -0500
        Re: Probing the mysteries of Europa, Jupiter's cracked and crinkled moon jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-27 21:54 +0000

#528534 — Probing the mysteries of Europa, Jupiter's cracked and crinkled moon

Probing the mysteries of Europa, Jupiter's cracked and crinkled moon
> http://phys.org/news/2015-10-probing-mysteries-europa-jupiter-crinkled.html

> Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to possess a large salty ocean
> beneath its icy exterior, and that ocean, scientists say, has the
> potential to harbor life. Indeed, a mission recently suggested by
> NASA would visit the icy moon's surface to search for compounds that
> might be indicative of life. But where is the best place to look? New
> research by Caltech graduate student Patrick Fischer; Mike Brown, the
> Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor and Professor of Planetary
> Astronomy; and Kevin Hand, an astrobiologist and planetary scientist
> at JPL, suggests that it might be within the scarred, jumbled areas
> that make up Europa's so-called "chaos terrain."
>
> A paper about the work has been accepted to The Astronomical
> Journal.
>
> "We have known for a long time that Europa's fresh icy surface, which
> is covered with cracks and ridges and transform faults, is the
> external signature of a vast internal salty ocean," Brown says. The
> areas of chaos terrain show signatures of vast ice plates that have
> broken apart, shifted position, and been refrozen. These regions are
> of particular interest, because water from the oceans below may have
> risen to the surface through the cracks and left deposits there.

   Poster's comment: If we find life on Mars, Europa, Enceladus and/or
   Titan, then we know we are not alone, just having evolved longer.


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#528554

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Probing the mysteries of Europa, Jupiter's cracked and crinkled moon

>   Poster's comment: If we find life on Mars, Europa, Enceladus and/or
>   Titan, then we know we are not alone, just having evolved longer.

What leads you to the conclusion that we would have evloved longer as
opposed to anything else, as have had conditions better suited for
evolving into complex beings?


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Jim Pennino

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On 10/27/15 3:31 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>
> What leads you to the conclusion that we would have evloved longer as
> opposed to anything else, as have had conditions better suited for
> evolving into complex beings?
>
>

   No rockets being launched from those bodies.

   Probing the mysteries of Europa, Jupiter's cracked and crinkled moon
> http://phys.org/news/2015-10-probing-mysteries-europa-jupiter-crinkled.html


 > Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to possess a large salty ocean
 > beneath its icy exterior, and that ocean, scientists say, has the
 > potential to harbor life. Indeed, a mission recently suggested by
 > NASA would visit the icy moon's surface to search for compounds that
 > might be indicative of life. But where is the best place to look? New
 > research by Caltech graduate student Patrick Fischer; Mike Brown, the
 > Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor and Professor of Planetary
 > Astronomy; and Kevin Hand, an astrobiologist and planetary scientist
 > at JPL, suggests that it might be within the scarred, jumbled areas
 > that make up Europa's so-called "chaos terrain."
 >
 > A paper about the work has been accepted to The Astronomical
 > Journal.
 >
 > "We have known for a long time that Europa's fresh icy surface, which
 > is covered with cracks and ridges and transform faults, is the
 > external signature of a vast internal salty ocean," Brown says. The
 > areas of chaos terrain show signatures of vast ice plates that have
 > broken apart, shifted position, and been refrozen. These regions are
 > of particular interest, because water from the oceans below may have
 > risen to the surface through the cracks and left deposits there.

   Poster's comment: If we find life on Mars, Europa, Enceladus and/or
   Titan, then we know we are not alone, just having evolved longer.



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#528593

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/27/15 3:31 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>
>> What leads you to the conclusion that we would have evloved longer as
>> opposed to anything else, as have had conditions better suited for
>> evolving into complex beings?
>>
>>
> 
>   No rockets being launched from those bodies.

Non sequitur, spamming shit head.

This just shows we have evolved farther and says nothing about longer,
shit head.


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