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Anonymous04/24/26, 04:44No.16964073EUROPA LANDER
What if the Europa Lander finds complex life under the ice of Europa in the 2040s or whenever it arrives? Imagine discovering that life coincidentally also exists so close to our planet, and then remembering that we've been broadcasting radio signals over hundreds of light years for the last two hundred years.
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Anon04/24/26, 05:39No.16964084
um... europa is in the past, unc
we're /enceladus/ here
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Anon04/24/26, 06:02No.16964089
Nothing would happen, there are many places in the solar system that could have or did have life in the past. Actually finding it doesn't really change anything on a day to day level even if it's scientifically interesting. The biggest impact would probably be another rushed mission there again and perhaps missions to other ice moons to investigate those too.
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Anon04/24/26, 11:28No.16964172
has anyone ever thought how weird the water in these moons would be, no dissolved oxygen--because of no great oxygenation even, sparse mineral composition compared to earth, probably different hydrogen isotopes, if we drank it, would we die, would it taste the same
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Anon04/24/26, 12:07No.16964188
it's equal parts funny, sad and frightening that people can look at this picture and think it's a real "moon" of some distant "planet"
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Anon04/24/26, 19:57No.16964437
>we've been broadcasting radio signals over hundreds of light years for the last two hundred years.
nope. our radio broadcasts fade out over distance they dont travel forever. they'd be too weak to even detect from beyond a light year. you need extremely powerful directed bursts to do that
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Anon04/24/26, 20:31No.16964463
"All these worlds are yours—except Europa. Attempt no landing there."
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Anon04/26/26, 00:37No.16965374
>and then remembering that we've been broadcasting radio signals over hundreds of light years for the last two hundred years.So what could have been done different? No use of electromagnetic signals?, how do you develop your technology without that?
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Anon04/26/26, 07:34No.16965493
this is the resurrected eyeball of rabbi jesus, not a moon. sometimes you schizos really push the limits
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Anon04/27/26, 13:04No.16966021
This board is fucked
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Anon05/01/26, 02:00No.16968130
Herpa derpa
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Anon05/04/26, 13:37No.16970070
/sci/ - mental asylum
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Anon05/05/26, 18:24No.16970681
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Anon05/05/26, 23:50No.16970788
>we've been broadcasting radio signals over hundreds of light years for the last two hundred years.
Radar is brighter so if someone out there is looking at the right time they'd see it much more clearly.
But biosignatures should be visible to anyone within 50 light-years. We're close to being able to detect the presence of life on earthlike planets with JWST. Nearby aliens with something a little better would be able to tell that there's life on earth.Discovering evidence of life on another planet or moon in the solar system would mean life in another star system is far more likely than not.There's about a few thousand star systems close enough to see our biosignature so they'd know something is here.I believe it is likely someone may have already tried to contact us. There's many "wow! signal" events that are categorized as terrestrial noise based mostly on a believed low probability of extraterrestrial source. Discovering life on Europa flips that around, more likely than not we've already recorded a few technosignatures
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Anon05/07/26, 01:23No.16971474
Did you fools not watch the movie? Don't fuck with Europa.
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Anon05/09/26, 06:52No.16972861
oof
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Anon05/12/26, 01:38No.16974568
Fuck off
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Anon05/14/26, 18:15No.16976138
How about no