Saturn moon could be hospitable to life

Saturn moon could be hospitable to life
Cassini spacecraft sees evidence for liquid water beneath the surface of
Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene...itable_to_life

On 2/23/10 11:54 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:

Saturn moon could be hospitable to life
Cassini spacecraft sees evidence for liquid water beneath the surface of
Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene...itable_to_life





Versailles, Saturn Style
The Cassini spacecraft has captured a veritable array of fountains
spraying ice crystals and water above Enceladus's southern pole

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceno...tyle.html?etoc

On Feb 24, 7:16*am, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 2/23/10 11:54 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:

Saturn moon could be hospitable to life
Cassini spacecraft sees evidence for liquid water beneath the surface of
Saturn’s moon Enchiladas.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene...Saturn_moon_co...

Versailles, Saturn Style
The Cassini spacecraft has captured a veritable array of fountains
spraying ice crystals and water above Enceladus's southern pole

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceno...s-saturn-style...

One can't help thinking that it would have been more like Versailles
if they had inverted the image.

Perhaps I'm just being too picky?

Google spelling checker suggested you should change Enceladus to
Enchiladas.

So much (computing) power. So little understanding.

Sam Wormley wrote in
:


Saturn moon could be hospitable to life
Cassini spacecraft sees evidence for liquid water beneath the surface
of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene...turn_moon_coul
d_be_hospitable_to_life


And if American had this, they could go there and see. Instead, America
will shortly go hat in hand to the Russkies or Chinese commies to launch
anything into basic Earth orbit now!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project..._propulsion%29

Sam Wormley wrote:

Saturn moon could be hospitable to life
Cassini spacecraft sees evidence for liquid water beneath the surface of
Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene...moon_could_be_
hospitable_to_life

And then, Mr. Wormley added:

Versailles, Saturn Style
The Cassini spacecraft has captured a veritable array of fountains
spraying ice crystals and water above Enceladus's southern pole

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceno...tyle.html?etoc

I'm sorry, but "fountains spraying ice crystals" does not qualify under
my admittedly narrow definition of "hospitable to life."

Under my definition the orb is allowed ice caps and red states and all
that nasty stuff so long as the orb is sufficiently large to keep said
ice caps, red states, and other undesirable stuff some thousands of
kilometres from where I stay; but it also needs must have tropical
beaches with fountains of gin and tonic, and silent, polite waiters to
deliver the aforementioned G&T to my beach chair.

Davoud

--
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

Davoud wrote:
Sam Wormley wrote:

Saturn moon could be hospitable to life
Cassini spacecraft sees evidence for liquid water beneath the surface of
Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene...moon_could_be_
hospitable_to_life

And then, Mr. Wormley added:

Versailles, Saturn Style
The Cassini spacecraft has captured a veritable array of fountains
spraying ice crystals and water above Enceladus's southern pole

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceno...tyle.html?etoc

I'm sorry, but "fountains spraying ice crystals" does not qualify under
my admittedly narrow definition of "hospitable to life."

Under my definition the orb is allowed ice caps and red states and all
that nasty stuff so long as the orb is sufficiently large to keep said
ice caps, red states, and other undesirable stuff some thousands of
kilometres from where I stay; but it also needs must have tropical
beaches with fountains of gin and tonic, and silent, polite waiters to
deliver the aforementioned G&T to my beach chair.

Davoud

When you dive/dig deep enough, at least part of those tropical
requirements can be met......

They should do a return mission after flying through these geysers and see
what is in da water !

6EQUJ5 wrote:

They should do a return mission after flying through these geysers and see
what is in da water !

Wouldn't a spectroscopic analysis be cheaper? And less subject to
contamination?

Davoud

--
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

I'm talking about organics and dare I say...the undeniable signature of
organisms or real ones?


"Davoud" wrote in message
...
6EQUJ5 wrote:

They should do a return mission after flying through these geysers and
see
what is in da water !

Wouldn't a spectroscopic analysis be cheaper? And less subject to
contamination?

Davoud

--
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything
that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:25:44 -0500, Davoud wrote:

I'm sorry, but "fountains spraying ice crystals" does not qualify under
my admittedly narrow definition of "hospitable to life."

I don't know. Based on some of the images you've posted recently of
conditions around your zerbatory, someplace where fountains spray ice
crystals sounds positively balmy...
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