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New probe to sail on Titan's lake
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New probe to sail on Titan's lake
Seems kind of interesting. Some scientists are planning to pitch a probe to congress for NASA that is meant to land on Titan's sea. The probe's name is Oceanus.

Once the probes have properly landed on Kraken Mare, they will begin to collect data intended to answer a number of questions. In particular, determining the composition, viscosity, and salinity of Titan's lakes is a top objective. The nodes will also investigate the formation and extent of waves on its lakes Gathering data over a large area will also allow for a greater understanding of Titan's electromagnetic environment. Finally, biosensors on some Oceanus probes will also search for traces of past or present life in the hydrocarbon lakes, including microbial, methane-based life-forms, which some scientists have theorized may be possible.

http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~jmendez9/mainEN.htm
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RE: New probe to sail on Titan's lake
We live in interesting times.
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RE: New probe to sail on Titan's lake
Meanwhile, on 'Europa...

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/europa-...ne-concept

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT4jWmamPLQ
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RE: New probe to sail on Titan's lake
Can we do this by the end of the year? pleeeze?
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RE: New probe to sail on Titan's lake
(August 22, 2016 at 5:25 pm)Alex K Wrote: Meanwhile, on 'Europa...

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/europa-...ne-concept

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT4jWmamPLQ

Sure, nice animation but you know I've seen really more fantastical. Like at the end of James Cameron's "Aliens Of The Deep" there is a probe diving down and meeting aliens similar to those from "The Abyss". The whole movie is a documentary set on Cameron's big underwater exploration ship which is run a bit like kindergarten, there's like a scene where they're having lunch and Cameron is suddenly stopping everybody and to ask "For those that want to go to Mars and live there few years raise their hand."
Not to mention that 2022 mission will "only" circle and land on Europa and not dig it.

But I guess there will be much more deep space missions now that US has re-started producing Plutonium 238 since 2012. I mean maybe they could just drop a ball of Plutonium 238 on Europa and let it burn it's way down (Plutonium 238 is not actually harmful radioactive since it throws only alpha particles that get stopped by the skin).

And can you imagine if they discovered intelligent beings on Titan or similar planet: Christians would automatically want to baptize them and on the "planet" where water is a stone they would stone them with holy water.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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