Science!

[kahljorn]

Yes, this was the Huygens probe I referred to briefly above that "crash" landed on Titan.

no i mean the Galileo spacecraft probe they sent into Jupiter's atmosphere.

The problem with landing a probe on Europa is contamination of the local environment (ocean under the ice) with earthly bacteria.

lol didn't know we had a prime directive. I guess it's more from the scientific angle of wanting a controlled environment though.
So they couldn't kill the bacteria by sending it through the Jupiter radiation belt or w/e? like sending it in between io and jupiter should make it super hot if im thinking right but i dont really know a lot about this so w/e
i know theres some bacterias that can survive high temperatures and shit but what are the chances of it ending up on a probe, when most of those bacterias are in extremely hard to reach places and probably couldn't even survive outside of their natural habitat. well w/e i know they also speculate that life on earth could've been caused by bacteria/organic someshit found in meteors so i guess i can understand this ;/

[Colonel Flagg]

Originally Posted by kahljorn

no i mean the Galileo spacecraft probe they sent into Jupiter's atmosphere.

I don't know if you can truly say it crashed - it was most likely crushed by the intense atmospheric pressure long before it hit the surface. It also got mighty hot just before it "signed off" - about 150°C (if memory serves).

Doesn't really matter, though, it stopped working anyway.

Originally Posted by kahljorn

lol didn't know we had a prime directive. I guess it's more from the scientific angle of wanting a controlled environment though.

Yeah, there's more than a little hypocrisy at work here too. Why not have the smae rules for Mars? How about Titan? What's so special about a moon with an ocean? Where's our "manifest desinty"?

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