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mzm316 t1_it38slh wrote

Reply to comment by push__ in The Europa Clipper mission may be as exciting as a manned mars mission and it’s only two years away by Wide-Escape-5618

There isn’t definitive proof of cryogeysers on Europa so a mission involving that would never be selected for funding. But the clipper mission will have enough remote sensing instruments that we don’t really have to fly right through a plume to get a good idea of the conditions that exist - however a “true” sample of the conditions would need to come from the ocean beneath the icy crust because the process of cryovolcanism could possibly taint the sample you’re getting

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mzm316 t1_isym1tm wrote

Reply to comment by ChubbyWanKenobie in The Europa Clipper mission may be as exciting as a manned mars mission and it’s only two years away by Wide-Escape-5618

You’re being downvoted but you’re right. As far as bang for your buck goes, we’re far better off taking the funding from the “moon base” efforts and putting it into more robotic explorations. There are fascinating proposals for missions that don’t get selected due to lack of funding and they would advance our understanding of the world far more than a moon base, which is almost just a PR move.

This is my field and it’s the generally shared opinion among the people in it that SLS and the lunar program has been a waste of time and resources, but unfortunately public opinion relies on “flashy” things like putting people on the moon.

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mzm316 t1_isylasp wrote

Reply to comment by sonoma95436 in The Europa Clipper mission may be as exciting as a manned mars mission and it’s only two years away by Wide-Escape-5618

It’s far far easier to sample Titan’s conditions than Europa’s with a robotic mission right now, and it’s very far from a waste of time. To sample the hydrocarbons on Europa would require some kind of drilling apparatus that doesn’t exist yet. Are you interested in all of the science that can be done on Titan? Because I work on the Dragonfly mission.

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mzm316 t1_isxuta3 wrote

Reply to comment by HosstownRodriguez in Catalytic converter stolen again by Internal_Position_49

I just don’t understand this at all. I mean I understand the legality, but why would it be a crime for you to put a theft deterrent on your own property? And if they sue you, can’t you sue back or something since you can also prove they were committing theft of your property? Or call the police since you have proof of the attempted crime? This just baffles me.

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