NASA - Jupiter Icy Moons Orbitor ( JIMO ) cancelled 2005, Alien Life in Outer Space ?

[lovelplants]

wow very interesting topic... wow it's jupiter.. lava, ice.. nice

[WatchmenDrManhattan]

I find it very curios that NASA is showing no interest in Europa even doe they say they are looking for life & liquid water on other planets. It is like looking for gold & not seeing the mountain of it right beside you. Al this decades & the billions of dollars they spend, they couldn't spare something for a simple probe.

NASA is either dumb or they know something & are not telling or they are dumb.

[Wolfsbane909]

I have a message here from the 2010 space computer HAL 9000 " Stay away from Europa!", let's not posion their planet too.

[boyceps]

Io... Volcanos, a moon of fire... Much the same as Earth was 10 billion (or so) years ago. Life in a few million? Fascinating!

[RedTailedTuna]

COOL!

[HNMpepper]

They cancelled it because manned missions, but now they've cancelled the manned missions! Screw things! We can't get along and actually get somewhere! Instead, we just waste money like parasites on grabbing oil from Libya. Oh, and don't tell me it was human rights, what about Zimbabwe! Or we waste money on that silly ISS! I reckon quite a lot of things they do on that thing, they could instead do on interplanetary missions! Let's get's some guts! I know I'm being lippy but this is out of order!

[perjanan]

water and volcanos

[safarsafar1234]

THIS STUFF JUST BLOWS MY MIND

[AndyMan4]

i am sorry but answer me this... considering that europa is zero atmosphere, and assuming that there is liquid sealed under neath the ice.... what will happen when that water is exposed to zero atomsphere????

.... not pretty....

[14skullboy]

i just wana se other people that have life but not from earth

[megamunchit2008]

With the mass of Jupiter and the distance between Jupiter's moon and the planet, how come Jupiter hasn't sucked in the moon? It may be a dumb question, I'm just curious.

[mikoson1000]

@megamunchit2008 I think it was moved to that place by itself after the explosion because of Jupiters huge gravity.!! But then there is this question..If its moved for so close than why isnt it hitting it...Well i honestly think it has to do something with the sun..I dont know if this is true but for me this answer makes sense

[MarsMoonEuropa]

@megamunchit2008 The moon is constantly accelerating towards Jupiter - centripetal acceleration. It maintains a high velocity away from Jupiter but Jupiter's gravity pulls it in. The forces cancel each other out leaving Io in suspension above Jupiter's surface, same with Ganymede and Europa, all satellites in fact. The balance isn't perfect which is why the orbit is elliptical. There may be a better explanation, but it is my best without a diagram. I can clarify it if you ask questions.

[KarbineKyle]

AWESOME! Why can't the human race just get along? Why can't we just drop religion and politics, and explore space, where the answers to our true existence might be found so soon? We've spent over $650 billion for this damn war, when we could put the money towards technology, such as nuclear power for space travel, orbiters, rovers, and telescopes! We could build huge telescopes and satellite antennas orbiting around the planets and placed on asteroids, so we could find even more worlds! COME ON!

[mikoson1000]

@KarbineKyle I Agree 100% with you

[Tinhh]

Because we are human. We are flawed and petty creatures. Our evolution is not over.

[chekdamize7]

@KarbineKyle

Islam is the true religion and the whole world is united to fighting it and making the rest of the people who are clueless to it believe their evil propaganda in an effort to destroy the truth and believers, islam....the complete surrender to the Creator of the universe and belief in all the messngers, worshipping Allah alone with no partners....read the Quran and look arond, never changed final revelation....

[gortijx]

@KarbineKyle

It's the monetary system, we need to look past money and profit. The monetary system is thousands of times more detrimental to the human evolution than religion ever was or is.

Sadly, people are so stupid that it'll never happen, and, like Stephen Hawking said, it will be very difficult for us to survive the next 100 years.

[PikoParty]

OH SHIT!!! ITS A STAR DESTROYER!

[73c14jackson]

c0oL i wanna be in the outer space

[bovb902]

w00t u see thunder happening on the planet Jupiter pretty awsome

[Chthonian121]

o.o

[Nibielari]

maybe with the new direction that obama wants to take nasa they will consider this now

[turkishprawn]

@Nibielari I really, really, REALLY hope so.

I could deal with not doing the moon base if if meant sending probes to land on Europa