Everyone and their mother has commented on the water found on Enceladus. There is speculation about life. If life doesn't exist on Enceladus, and to a good second approximation we should know in a few decades, I suggest seeding the moon with Terran organisms that might be able to survive and flourish. In a few decades genetic engineering might also progress to a point where exotic prokaryote metabolisms could be synthesized with the physiology of more complex aquatic organisms.
Nuts? Yeah, probably, but so what. I don't believe that God exists, but I suspect It might in the future. Someone should start practicing.
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Can you imagine the sort of fish that'd grow in a low-gravity environment like that if you seeded it? We'd definitely need a net...
well...i was thinking of cephalopods more....
heh.
closet believer. ;)
Might be better to start on Europa though. We already think it has a worldwide ocean beneath its icy crust. Also Jupiter is closer than Saturn.
Finally of course, there was that message in the movie
2010: The Year We Make Contact
ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO
LANDING THERE
USE THEM TOGETHER
USE THEM IN PEACE
Who could resist? I vote Europa.
I don't believe that God exists, but I suspect It might in the future. Someone should start practicing.
I love these two sentences.
I don't believe that God exists, but I suspect It might in the future.
Razib, have you been reading Husserl?
no. should i?
it's just that your quote is basically what Husserl said. When I have time, I'll try to dig it up.
And, no, you shouldn't waste your time...
It's even better (or at least cooler) to seed Earth life there if there is in fact native evolved life. What cool happenings might result from such an interaction ? Maybe a cell from one world by chance could envelope a cell from the other world.....
Come on, all you geeks know you are with me :)