[Frenchtown Dan]

Deep moon fishing, anyone?

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

On Earth, life had more than a billion years to evolve, before oxygen became plentiful in the atmosphere, and that delay gave organisms plenty of time to develop genetic mechanisms and physical structures that allowed them to use oxygen, instead of being destroyed by it.

The delay of 1 to 2 billion years before oxygen in Europa's crust made its way into its ocean is roughly the same amount of time it took life on Earth to develop before oxygen became a problem, so life might have enough of a respite to develop on the Jovian moon. Assuming life on Europa respired at rates similar to fish on Earth, the continuous rate of oxygen delivery there could sustain roughly 3 million metric tons of life, Greenberg said.

Interesting!

[johnthebaptistmoore]

The “Monoliths” said for people to stay away from going there, if I remember the story correctly.

[Bigh4u2]

No problem.

As long as you drill the ‘whole’!

:0)

[cripplecreek]

Thats a long way to go for ice fishing.

[NavyCanDo]

When they find something of value - like a city of Moon Maidens, or Green Skin Orion Girls, I'll be sitting up and taking notice. But Ice and Oxygen, we got.

[tnlibertarian]

Okay, let me see if I get it:

Humans breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.
Plants take in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.
So, oxygen and carbon dioxide are opposites.
Europa is very cold, covered in ice and full of oxygen.
Therefore, carbon dioxide causes global warming.

When can I expect my government grant?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Frenchtown Dan.

There may be enough oxygen in the waters of Jupiter's moon Europa to support millions of tons worth of fish, according to a new study. And while nobody is suggesting there might actually be fish on Europa, this finding suggests the Jovian satellite could be capable of supporting the kinds of life familiar to us here on Earth, if only in microbial form.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Frenchtown Dan.

There may be enough oxygen in the waters of Jupiter's moon Europa to support millions of tons worth of fish, according to a new study. And while nobody is suggesting there might actually be fish on Europa, this finding suggests the Jovian satellite could be capable of supporting the kinds of life familiar to us here on Earth, if only in microbial form.

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[wendy1946]

There are several places in our system which could easily have been inhabited in antediluvian times, at least by fish. Of the gas giant moons one of the more interesting is Iapetus:

Nature of course does not create planetary walls on great circle arcs. Hoagland thinks this was some sort of a death star or some such; my own theory is that there were demokkkrats or slammites or some such living on the place and the normal people guilt a wall and let the losers have their side of the place.