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Decebal posted: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 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".
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Altair Knight posted:What space bees... It's nothing to worry about. Consume and reproduce as though nothing is wrong.
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Decebal posted: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 There really should be a penalty system for short shortsightedness on these things. Hell, even back on the Viking lander the test was all freaky. The cliff notes to that are that they'd decided "If the test for life gives result X it's a positive, and if it does Z it's a negative" and in the end it gave weird rear end results that didn't quite fit X or Z so the said "gently caress it, nevermind". And with all the poo poo they've chucked up there since they still haven't put much concerted effort into figuring out what the gently caress was going on back in 1976. I mean I get that space is limited on these things, but come on.
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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. Yeh. That's why I pointed out the lack of direct follow up on a specific curiosity that reared it's head forty years ago.
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