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NASA is so damn good my first reaction was:

“They can do that. They sent NH to Pluto and Cassini to Saturn.”

Then do it, what are we waiting to fund this mission.

If they can send New Hampshire to Pluto, is there anything they can’t do?

You ninny, they obviously meant Nine Hamsters.

We need this, a mission to Europa and a Cassini style mission for both Ice Giants.

That's a good plan, if we melt through the ice and lower a camera into the water, it'll just get eaten.

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Luckily we're getting a cassini to Uranus

If vents exist on the seafloor of Enceladus, and all the methane is from life in vents, and then that life survives the long journey to the surface through the ocean and ice, and then survives massive depressurization when it hits vacuum, and then doesn’t get murdered during the still high velocity flyby, then it only takes 100 such flybys, which is huge number.

Some papers are worth writing because it’s good to crunch some back of the envelope numbers, but we don’t always have to take them seriously…

Ooooooooor one unmanned kinetically injected submersible c:

When they mean ‘life’ they mean single cell life, and it is actually known that bacterium can survive in the vacuum of space.

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Nasa has the Tunnelbot concept, if they built it, it could be powered with Kilopower & with such a high profile use case the demand & applications for Kilopower could surge