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Katamari Democracy posted:Somewhere, someone is going to get totally turned on. Who is going to be the first to gently caress an alien. Of course ! Cassini just flew through the water plumes coming from deep within Enceladus and found "organic molecules" . But you know they found more than that. Like a weird bacteria that entered the instruments and now they're just waiting for the right time to announce it Europa is next. That's why that congressman had to threaten NASA with total withdrawal of funds if they don't send a mission there next. They keep pushing Mars missions on us like anyone cares about that dry red poo poo-hole. Jupiter & Saturn is where the action is at
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Frankenstyle posted:Cassini isn't equipped to test beyond that. It could scoop up a swarm of space bees, but it's only capable of testing them out as "organic molecules". Then if would e fair to charge the scientists who designed it with criminal negligence considering what a huge discovery they're missing. Maybe have them pay a % of the mission cost back to NASA since now we'll have to wait decades for another probe to get there
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I don't think you do get that, or how designing the things works in the first place. An instrument that can test for a huge variety of things to cover all the bases will not only be too bulky, but it just wouldn't get funded. There has to be a near guarantee on results (either positive or negative) for them to be approved, they won't let you put a space bee detector on because "maybe there will be some". First you'd have to observe some signature that at the very least suggests their existence, and then and only then can you start applying for funding to design your bee detector. Seems to me like "finding life" is only an afterthought at NASA or somewhere around 20% interest. Every time they launch something is to "test the rock composition that will tell us about the beginning of the Solar System" or " analyze the cloud structure on Saturn so we can send a cool picture of some gas" It's never finding life. Sometimes they insert it, like an afterthought. "something something something that MAY also tell us if life could be possible" <------- a far cry from actually focusing on that. I get it that science is vast and you have different specializations BUT if they want more funding how about you get the public excited with more that just spectroscopy raw data ?! Europa is at least as interesting as Mars and we haven't sent 1(one) mission there !! We dropped poo poo on Titan an it's further away . A bunch of jokers
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Chomp8645 posted:The problem with space is that it's boring. A millisecond pulsar is kind of cool 
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