Arthur C. Clark gave some great takes on the possibilities of life on
Jupiter and Saturn. It would be great if his animated and living gas
dirigibles turned out to be real. It would really make him a real
prognosticator.
larry
At 05:34 PM 6/4/2004, you wrote:
>Jim,
>
>Interesting ... I have always thought of the two gas giants as being too
>hostile and dynamic for life to evolve and take root - not to say that it
>isn't possible.
>
>Yes - the Eurpoa mission ... very intriguing and exciting prospects for
>the search for life there. That mission is so far down the road - I hope
>it actually happens. It even excites me to think of how life has evolved
>in Lake Vostok. Have you heard if the test probe for this is being built
>yet or is it still in the planning stages?
>
>- Greg
>
>PS: "Sci Am" ? Magazine?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Davis
> To: CF-Community
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 4:20 PM
> Subject: RE: Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn!
>
>
> I'm hyped as well - Sci Am did a great overview of the project goals last
> issue if anybody's interested.
>
> As for life, I'm hopeful - but I doubt this mission will be able to find
> anything (and that anything it might find will be inconclusive).
>
> Personally I'd consider Saturn itself (or, more likely, Jupiter) to be a
> more likely place: massive amounts of liquid water under the cloud layers,
> energy from the planet's immense internal heat sources and lightning. oh,
> yeah - I'd wager there are some very interesting microbes down there. ;^)
>
> I'm holding out most hope however for the eventual (you know they've got to
> try!) ice-breaker mission(s) to Eurpoa. the work they're doing/planning for
> Lake Vostok makes for great reading.
>
> A close friend of mine was an engineer on the Apollo project - so we have
> discussions about this often. ;^)
>
> Jim Davis
>
>
>
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