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March 09, 2006

Life in outer space

NASA's Cassini probe has made a very interesting find Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus (typically described as "about the size of Arizona").

"We haven’t found water, per se, we’ve found evidence of water, and our best models, right now, are those that suggest that there’s pockets of liquid water under the surface, and what we’re seeing in these jets are like the equivalent of Old Faithful, in Yellowstone, they’re geysers that are erupting out of pockets of water."

"It appears we have all the ingredients that all the experts have claimed for a long time now, you would need to have environments suitable for living organisms. And so, that’s what we think we have here. We have found another environment in our solar system, in a very surprising place, that could host living organisms. Now, of course, we’ll never know until we go there, but it’s a very, very, very exciting possibility. It's really broadened the diversity of those environments that we can expect to see conditions suitable for life."

Which is pretty damn cool.

Bob says: "I'm going to have to keep my hopes up that A) They find something and B) It isn't hostile to human systems because they will try to bring some back somehow."

We just need stasis tubes, and it'll all be fine. Really. Nothing has ever gone wrong with those before. Or we could just keep them contained, maybe set up a petting zoo with the smaller ones.

Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at March 9, 2006 01:23 PM

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