Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life?

http://www.ted.com Carolyn Porco shares exciting new findings from the Cassini spacecraft's recent sweep of one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus. Samples gathered from the moon's icy geysers hint that an ocean under its surface could harbor life.

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[vmorgun]

When do we bomb it to spread democracy :)

[medic007]

Plasma just indicates the matter is ionized - it doesn't need to be at high temperature, some materials turn to plasma more easily, and pressure plays a role as well.

If you're interested in learning more, the wiki article on plasma is quite good.

[53redditheadit]

Do you sleep naked, only with your droid and think of me?

[53redditheadit]

Don't you have an I.Q. of like, 182?!

[3877michael]

@Relativisticism Good luck! The Pope said that life on another planet was not opposed to the teachings of the bible. So not in this life time.

[eulercircles]

@Relativisticism Don't count on it. Religion seems to flourish in environments of abundant evidence and sound arguments to the contrary. They must go extinct for other reasons.

[yatter1]

@Relativisticism dream on brother

[geiuy]

@Relativisticism you are overrating religious folks intelligence,if we find life on another planet they would still find a way to fit their god and their religion in it,like "you see,this prooves that our god is real because the book of genesis talks about "nephilim" and nephilim's are ufo's",there is no fast way out,it would be a slow change within every new generation

[Relativisticism]

Finding life on another planet will and should be the final nail in the coffin of religion.

[MihaZ]

@serratealldemoncrats You are an idiot.

[emikochan13]

@serratealldemoncrats what your taxes are spent on, is open information, you should read it. Science gets a fraction of a percent of the total budget. And we still achieve so much with it. War is where all the money went. Educate yourself, and stop being such a terrible parent.