Coolest Shit Ever: Pictures Of Saturns Moon Enceladus From The Cassini Probe, and New Evidence Of The Possibility For Life There.
26 May, 2010 in Coolest Shit Ever, fnord
I love the moon Enceladus, Youdopia. I love it because it orbits Saturn, the prettiest planet, although Neptune is breathtaking (no thank you. I don’t want to see your Uranus) and… Enceladus may very well have life.
Enceladus shoots plumes of liquid water vapor, along with hydrocarbons (organic material) from its surface. There is likely a liquid water ocean, under a crust of ice, heated by the moon’s interior.
Holy Shit. I think I will be alive when they (officially, the truth is out there) find life elsewhere in our solar system. There’s Mars, Europa, Titan, and Enceladus on the short list for life, and Enceladus is unique because it’s tiny (500 miles across) but it shoots water all the time, and it has a hear source, and organic molecules. That means it seems to have the ingredients of life.
There are insanely cool high resolution images on the JPL site. I forgot we had the Huygens lander on Titan. Shit, we’ve done all kinds of cool shit out there, making this the Coolest Shit Ever.
The Mr. and I were talking and he says (and I agree) that it would be nice to be alive when someone/thing/energy makes real honest-to-galaxy contact that can’t be explained away. This is a start. Did Jesus die for those microbes too?