Space: Titan may have a deep ocean...

[Neil]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7307584.stm

As the scientist says in the article, "We've got to go back again with balloons and rovers and really understand this place."

I agree! Let's do it soon please! It all take sooooo long :(

[3pidemiC]

I'm used to reading about Jupiter's moon, Europa and the ocean that it apparently has.

[MikePizzoff]

This is pretty exciting. I really want us to find life on another planet some point in my lifetime.

[Neil]

This is pretty exciting. I really want us to find life on another planet some point in my lifetime.

I've always imagines a bot landing on Europa, melting its way day thru kilometers of ice, and then, when it gets to an ocean, it releases 3-4 bots all of which go out looking for thermal vents.

In my imagination I can see us back at home sitting there watching the live (well X minutes old) foots from the bots which have settled on the sea bed, near vents... Just watch... and wait... And something swims by...

[Danny]

I've always imagines a bot landing on Europa, melting its way day thru kilometers of ice, and then, when it gets to an ocean, it releases 3-4 bots all of which go out looking for thermal vents.

In my imagination I can see us back at home sitting there watching the live (well X minutes old) foots from the bots which have settled on the sea bed, near vents... Just watch... and wait... And something swims by...

...craaaaab people, craaaaab people....

or cthulu, whichever works.

[capncnut]

"We've got to go back again with balloons and rovers and really understand this place."

I agree! Let's do it soon please! It all take sooooo long :(
I think NASA will get around to this mission within ten years, which ain't bad considering. As we know, it takes major planning. Plus, all the mistakes that happened with the Mars rovers will give the Titan mission a serious advantage.

[Mike70]

i think that in the next 20 to 30 years we will be seeing an all assault on the saturn system. i am surprised that the article didn't mention enceladus, which we are 100% certain has liquid water near the surface(in fact some of the hot regions in enceladus' south pole are as much as 275 deg K hotter than the rest of the moon. the presence of liquid water and organic chemicals on both titan and enceladus put both of them at the top of the search for life outside of earth.

[Bruiser235]

Cool. I'd personally love to see a permanant lunar colony built within my lifetime. Hell, I'd love to visit the moon before I die. :)

[Terran]

Cool. I'd personally love to see a permanant lunar colony built within my lifetime. Hell, I'd love to visit the moon before I die. :)

Ill go with you on this one....

I think inhabiting other bodies permanently its more important than validating theoretical research.....finish what we start then move on….This is a sore subject for me....because the technology to make this possible has been around for a while....Its just that you cant make much money on it....so there is little motivation....

If we can make a self sufficient moon colony....then we can make a self sufficient mars colony....if we can do either.....Human type "consciousness" will likely be around for a long time....Otherwise….we are still on the brink…..