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NASA moves ahead with a mission to Europa
« on: June 19, 2015, 05:08:14 pm »
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/nasa-moves-ahead-mission-europa

NASA announced June 17 that it is forging ahead with its plans to send a spacecraft to Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter. The mission concept passed its first major review, giving engineers the green light to start working out the details. In May, mission leaders presented the suite of instruments that the probe will carry to the icy moon and its giant planet. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch in the 2020s. Once in orbit around Jupiter, the craft will buzz Europa 45 times to snap pictures and probe the potentially habitable salt water ocean thought to lurk beneath the ice.
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Re: NASA moves ahead with a mission to Europa
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2015, 10:07:57 pm »
I hope I'm around when they discover fossilized organisms in sediment on the ocean floor.

Think of the fuel that will add to the earthly evolution versus creation argument!
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Re: NASA moves ahead with a mission to Europa
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2015, 10:20:31 pm »
Quote from: aligncare on June 19, 2015, 10:07:57 pm
I hope I'm around when they discover fossilized organisms in sediment on the ocean floor.

Think of the fuel that will add to the earthly evolution versus creation argument!

I'm hoping for more than fossils.
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Re: NASA moves ahead with a mission to Europa
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2015, 10:31:41 pm »
Of course, it's mere speculation on my part, but from what I know of nature and the laws of science I'm confident life abounds in the universe.
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Re: NASA moves ahead with a mission to Europa
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2015, 12:06:56 am »
If they do find life (which I think they will), think of the major implications here on Earth.
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Re: NASA moves ahead with a mission to Europa
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2015, 12:44:33 am »
Quote from: aligncare on June 19, 2015, 10:31:41 pm
Of course, it's mere speculation on my part, but from what I know of nature and the laws of science I'm confident life abounds in the universe.


I see it this way... God didn't create this universe just for us to enjoy by ourselves... ;)
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Re: NASA moves ahead with a mission to Europa
« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2015, 02:48:32 pm »
Quote from: kevindavis on June 21, 2015, 12:44:33 am

I see it this way... God didn't create this universe just for us to enjoy by ourselves... ;)

Yes, it would seem unsubstantial that the universe would not be teeming with life! I should think the creator of the universe would be far greater than a one-trick pony.
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Re: NASA moves ahead with a mission to Europa
« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2015, 03:11:42 pm »
Believing God created the entire universe just for us is truly the apex of arrogance.
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Re: NASA moves ahead with a mission to Europa
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2015, 01:52:55 am »
Quote from: Dexter on June 21, 2015, 03:11:42 pm
Believing God created the entire universe just for us is truly the apex of arrogance.

And yet, to-date it seems he did just that.  Or so concludes the Fermi paradox.
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