[HN Gopher] Hidden ocean the source of carbon dioxide on Jupiter...
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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)
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(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.
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