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Germstore posted:"orbiting something that outputs energy" is a pretty low bar to set for habitability. Yeah but the more we learn about life the lower the bar gets. Look at water bears and tube worms and stuff. There's probably some extremophile bacteria or something that would do just fine there
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Decebal posted:Yeah but what if life needed a milder environment to start and only then it can evolve into extromophiles and conquer inhospitable places ? Yep, maybe (probably) there's nothing there. But it's far from impossible
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Decebal posted:That would also be a good target (besides endless Mars missions). They dropped the Huygens probe on it but it only had, like 1 hour of battery ?! WTF why not make one of those plutonium batteries for it and make it float ???????? imagine that thing sailing on a methane sea and peering into the depths ! Huygens was just a little bonus probe tacked onto Cassini, not a dedicated mission, so it had even tighter cost and weight constraints than usual. There's a proposal (not sure how serious at this point) to do exactly what you're suggesting in the future though.
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