Astronomy & Space Exploration

[Smores]

Holy shit they actually caught the booster first time. Unbelievable to watch.

 

[nickm]

Holy shit they actually caught the booster first time. Unbelievable to watch.

I think we saw history being made.

 

[TwoSheds]

That was pretty cool.

 

[altodevil]

Feck SpaceX, probably most important NASA mission in ages about to launch

 

[McGrathsipan]

Feck SpaceX, probably most important NASA mission in ages about to launch

what is it?

 

[altodevil]

what is it?

Europa Clipper

 

[nickm]

Europa Clipper

Yep, we're off to Europa, maybe to see if there could be life there.

 

[Big Andy]

It's great news if true, but they also say it's 10-20 km below the crust. It may very well be easier to use the water we already know about on the surface (even if it isn't in liquid form).

Get Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck on the phone.

 

[Big Andy]

Feck SpaceX, probably most important NASA mission in ages about to launch

Didn't it go up on a SpaceX rocket?

 

[Beachryan]

There was an excellent sci fi film about this. Spoiler: it doesn't go great when we sent people to Europa.

 

[stefan92]

This one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Report

However Europa Clipper won't land, so we won't know if Europa Report shows the reality on Europa

 

[nickm]

Shows my age, I thought the reference was to 2010: Odyssey 2 where Jupiter gets turned into star for the benefit of the native Europans.