In case you haven't heard . . .
NASA'S CASSINI DISCOVERS POTENTIAL LIQUID WATER ON ENCELADUS
"We realize that this is a radical conclusion - that we may have evidence for liquid water within a body so small and so cold," said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. "However, if we are right, we have significantly broadened the diversity of solar system environments where we might possibly have conditions suitable for living organisms."
The real excitement hasn't even begun.
4 comments:
We've GOT to get the travel time to the outer solar system down to weeks, instead of years.
Yes. This 7-plus years business isn't cutting it.
I imagine we will find water and other possible niches for life on far more planets than "mainstream science" could ever imagine, and even more as we expand our definition of life.
We're just crystals forming in a cave; oceans of life forming tides from the moon of chaos; necessary and unnecessary like the rest of the universe.
We need to stop fritting around with chemical rockets of course. Atomic power is the only way to go! It’s the only thing robust enough to make interplanetary hops in a few weeks/months.
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