[HN Gopher] Hidden ocean the source of carbon dioxide on Jupiter... ___________________________________________________________________ Hidden ocean the source of carbon dioxide on Jupiter moon Author : Brajeshwar Score : 40 points Date : 2023-09-22 14:56 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (phys.org) (TXT) w3m dump (phys.org) | Tempest1981 wrote: | Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37602239 | xwdv wrote: | Does anyone else think that if news of underwater life on Europa | being found is announced someday the reaction from the general | public will be something like "Meh, cool. Now what about the | economy or who is dating who?" | | New creatures being discovered in Earth's deepest oceans don't | really even make most news. Europa is just a deeper ocean. | AnotherGoodName wrote: | When i was young we didn't know for sure that planets outside | the solar system even existed. There were even some theories | that planets could be extremely rare and our solar system was | special. I think life is in the same category as extra solar | planets once were. So yes. | jl6 wrote: | The most likely scenario is that it would be microbes, but even | microbes would be pretty amazing if they turned out to be based | on something other than DNA/RNA or proved sufficiently distinct | from Earth life to suggest a second abiogenesis event. | tessierashpool wrote: | it's more interesting if they're _not_ that different from | Earth life. many species of fungi, bacteria, and lichen can | survive in space. it 's not just tardigrades. they're not a | fluke; they're part of a pattern. | | I think it's extremely likely that we'll not only find life | is very common, but that _many species_ found on earth are | also found on other planets. | nico wrote: | That's pretty much the whole plot of the movie Don't look up | | The Extrapolations series on Apple TV also touches on this | egeozcan wrote: | > the reaction from the general public will be something like | "Meh, cool. Now what about the economy or who is dating who?" | | That wouldn't be annoying me much, if at all. | | The possibly infinite conspiracy theories and misinformation | making it probably impossible to follow the developments | without getting confused on the other hand... | BurningFrog wrote: | If it's not intelligent life we can talk to, that seems about | right. | | Not sure what else we would do? | cmrdporcupine wrote: | TBH if life is there or anywhere in our solar system it'd 99% | chance be single-celled bacteria/archaea type life.. because | that's what like 80% of Earth's history has been... and yes... | I think you'll find most of the population would probably give | it a shrug. | | If you found multicellular crawly life "like us", sure, people | would be excited. I also think that's exceedingly unlikely. If | life itself here is a "fluke", eukaryotic life is wayyyyy more | of a fluke. | fnordpiglet wrote: | I think if you judge the general public by TikTok views, | probably. But science isn't a general public topic. That's ok, | there's a few hundred million of us science fans which is | enough for me to feel thoroughly socialized. | nuc1e0n wrote: | Well the cracks on the Europan surface were already suggestive of | volcanism and this carbon dioxide detection is now more evidence | for that. Nice | pbj1968 wrote: | Is the NASA budget being threatened again? They start running | "ice on the moon!!!" and predictable variants every time their | budget is at risk. And I say this as a firm believer of research | being a much better use of government money than many other | entanglements. | fnordpiglet wrote: | I mean, it always is, but if you read the article, it's more | about exploration of the chemistry of Europa via Webb. Ice on | the moon is already well established, hence the desire to build | a lunar base on the South Pole. But nasas funding has more to | do with which state it'll be spent in than anything else. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-09-24 23:00 UTC)