Well, *I* think that's pretty cool
Since Europa is the most likely place in the solar system to look for life outside of Earth. If there's warmer currents of water moving around inside the moon, then it's much more likely that we'll find some form of life.

It is, indeed, cool.
( Kroney, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:36, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I know that, some peopler are just moody old pricks.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:38, Reply)

It'll be weird though. If it's covered in an icy crust, then there won't be anything with limbs.
Just fins, tentacles and blobs.

/scienceblog.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:41, Reply)

I should think it'd be microbial, if anything
I doubt there's much of an ecosystem down there.
( Kroney, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:43, Reply)

How does that fit into the Star Trek canon of first contact?

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:47, Reply)

"Enterprise"
ie not much hope was held out, but still fucking disappointing
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:48, Reply)

Yeah, we all secretly want green birds with tits

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:50, Reply)

try a cemetery

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:50, Reply)

That's quite funny.
Well done.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:51, Reply)

Are you pickin on peoples mums again?

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:51, Reply)

haha fuck

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:52, Reply)

There's nothing secret about it Rory
Personally I shall demand war upon any alien race we encounter where the women only have two breasts
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:51, Reply)

man, I wish I had three hands.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:51, Reply)

s shandies

The hookers must be very cheap round here from the look of them, I'll get you a menu
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:53, Reply)

Did you know that the T in James T Kirk stands for Tea Towel?
100% troof.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:50, Reply)

Even I know it's Tiberius
*polishes jam jar glasses*
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:50, Reply)

But do you know how the difference in appearance of the Klingons between the original TV series and the current, Cornish pasty on the head look was explained?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:53, Reply)

Budget

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:54, Reply)

Ha!
Well of course, I meant in the canon.

Fuck, Star Trek really is unremittingly shit, isn't it?

The one good thing it gave to the world is the joke about why Uhura is black. William Shatner.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:55, Reply)

In cannon it was a genetic experiment of mixing DNA from cloned super human soldiers and normal klingons.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:57, Reply)

I thought there were different versions?
Something about a virus was one as well.

Unless of course you are a Trekkoid, in which case I bow to your knowledge of lame science fiction noncery.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:58, Reply)

That's how Enterprise explained it in a three parter.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 11:05, Reply)

*bows*

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 11:07, Reply)

but if emnterprise happened before the original series how didn't it appear what?

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 11:13, Reply)

I bloody loved Next Gen when it was first on TV
but then, I was 11, I think that's allowed. A few of the movies are very good, including the most recent one.

I do remember something to do with radiation bombarding their home planet, or summat, but the answer to your original question has to be "no, not really"

EDIT: Apologies, I was talking bollocks, outgeeked by Chompy. Let's talk about BSG instead.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:57, Reply)

...

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:54, Reply)

Please kill me.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 11:01, Reply)

Science and Sci Fi
Almost as bad as football.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 11:03, Reply)

Science is fine.
Sci fi is for nonces, plebs and shut ins.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 11:04, Reply)

You've got that backwards sweetheart
Loads of b3tans love sci-fi and not one of us fits that descrip... hang about
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 11:06, Reply)

Indeed.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 11:10, Reply)

Greggs sponsorship

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:56, Reply)

Tiberius!

( girlinthehole, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:51, Reply)

Likely.
But depends on how long they've been there. They could have developed into multicellular creatures. Just ones like worms etc.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:49, Reply)

could be as complex as the ecosystems on earth around hydrothermic vents.
Which is fairly complex.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:50, Reply)

I've seen a programme about them.
Very interesting it was.
( girlinthehole, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:52, Reply)

Sea mice, water apes and brine flowers.
I saw the programme too.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 10:54, Reply)