As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the moon and Jupiter]... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.
Johannes Kepler
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.
Stephen Hawking
The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to those of mankind as a whole... In an ideal view, such an undertaking by mankind as a whole would tend to divert it from its present preoccupation with international conflict would tend to channel its energies into the pursuit of a great common purpose.
Louis J. Halle
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It’s time to get our weary and warring butts off of this world, and get them to Europa.
No, not
Jupiter’s Europa.
Our bellicose butts have been sitting on earth for almost thirty years since we landed on our own moon.
By we, of course, I mean
The new voyages into outer space should not be a nationalistic enterprise.
Multi-talented men and women from all nations on Spaceship Earth should go.
These nations should share the expenses.
With water below the surface of Europa, humans can live there.
We must leave soon.
Before the dollar is totally worthless.
Before bad weather, war, and famine put out the lights on Earth.
We should have a five-year plan for migrating to other worlds.
Go for the Gold!
Go for the Gusto!
Go to Europa!
Before it’s too late!
P.S. Outposts on the Moon and Mars must be constructed first.
I guess we might be looking at
another fifty years before this show is put on the road.
IT’S THE OIL STUPID!
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News.scotsman.com
Jupiter moon 'could be a habitat for life'
SHIFTING poles on one of Jupiter's moons strongly suggest the presence of a global ice-covered ocean, it was revealed yesterday.
The discovery of "wandering poles" on Europa provides further evidence of a liquid ocean beneath an icy crust.
Many scientists believe the hidden ocean, warmed by tidal forces from Jupiter's powerful gravity, may provide a suitable habitat for life.
Europa, slightly smaller than the Earth's moon, has a number of unexplained surface features pointing to a turbulent geological history.
One example is two groups of broad troughs and depressions at diametrically opposite locations on Europa's surface.
Images from three spacecraft, Voyager, Galileo and New Horizons, show several arc-shaped depressions extending more than 500 kilometres.
Scientists writing in the journal Nature said these were just the sort of patterns that would be expected to result from stresses caused by wandering poles.
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