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Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on Europa
- pvaldes 7y agoon Jupiter's Moon Europa would be a better title.
- wavefunction 7y agoWhat Europa would be confused for the moon Europa?
- pvaldes 7y agoEuropa the old world's continent, as is known by 600 millions of spanish speaking people in the planet (obviously)
- brnt 7y agoNot just Spanish, just about every other European language except English.
- notfromhere 7y agoOn an English-language forum, the context is pretty obvious.
- NicoJuicy 7y agoComing from Belgium and speaking English a lot. Obviously, no
- notfromhere 7y agoIn the English language, Europe is the name of the continent, and Europa is the name of the moon orbiting Jupiter - in fact, its the first google response that comes up on English-language versions of it.
- NicoJuicy 7y agoLol, translate Europe from English to Dutch ( my mother tongue) I have an edge case for 15 million people in Europe ;)
- brmgb 7y agoAnd French. Also, it's εὐρώπη in Greek so Europe is the logical transliteration. I find it weird that the moon is called Europa in English however. French uses Europe for both.
- empthought 7y agoThe moon is named for the mythological consort of Jupiter, which has always been "Europa" in English.
- brmgb 7y ago> The moon is named for the mythological consort of Jupiter The continent too yet their spellings differ. That is the weird part.
- wavefunction 7y agoI guess I wouldn't expect to read an article about scientists discovering water vapor in Europe. Water vapor on Europa however is momentous and I can only wonder if we might be closer to finding extraterrestrial life somewhere in our solar system.
- reportgunner 7y agoI read it as europe. My first thought was "and this is somehow bad for climate or what ?" and went to read the article.
- Ar-Curunir 7y agoI think most people already know that Earth has water vapour :P
- pvaldes 7y agoAfter the last month of non-stop pouring rains in Europa?, no water vapour at sight. All is cold impacts targetting the nape.
- onetimemanytime 7y agoStill, the headline would be correct. They are water vapors in your Europe too
- capableweb 7y agoI would be less worried about people confusing it with some other Europa and more that people simply don't know what it is. Adding "Jupiter's moon Europa" would still mean the same for you and me who know that Jupiter has a moon named Europe. But for someone who doesn't know, the difference means they understand the context better.
- rptr_87 7y agoWasn't this predicted from the times of Carl Sagan. I remember seeing an episode in Cosmos which predicted water vapors evaporating from ice cracks.
- sp332 7y agoEveryone thought water would be more abundant in the solar system than it really is.
- yellowapple 7y agoIt's still pretty dang abundant, though, is it not? Ceres is literally a giant ball of water ice. So is Pluto for the most part (it's even hypothesized to have liquid water under its icy crust). So are most asteroids and comets and dwarf planet(oid)s and gas giant moons. There's massive amounts of it in both Uranus and Neptune. Like sure, it ain't like 19th century fiction books where space is literally an ocean and the latter part of the word "astronaut" is far more literal than it is now, but water is by no means scarce in the solar system or in the universe as a whole as far as anyone can tell. If anything, everyone thought water would be less abundant in the solar system than it really is.
- eutropia 7y ago> Our global survey at infrared wavelengths resulted in non-detections on 16 out of 17 dates Good thing they got lucky within their allotted time! It's a shame we don't have more observatories like Mauna Kea.
- jedberg 7y agoI miss the days when NASA's budget was a whole number percentage of GDP...
- merpnderp 7y agoThey spent 30 years wasting the vast majority on ridiculous things like the Space Shuttle. Multiple billions of dollars to launch what Elon Musk will be launching for a measly 2 million. Their science was always a rounding error on their pork.
- matchbok 7y agoThat's... not how it works.
- manux 7y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong but didn't SpaceX benefit from the knowledge gained from (the failures of) NASA projects? Knowledge doesn't start from scratch each time one starts a new project. I find it hard to argue that that money was a waste. It's a slippery slope to claiming that science shouldn't be funded, which we know is wrong; knowledge needs a space where it can fail without repercussions, this is how most modern technologies were invented [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jTCBirELDU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jTCBirELDU
- supaiderman 7y agoMicrosoft spent 30 YEARS WASTING their money on RIDICULOUS things like WINDOWS 2000, something that I could launch in a measly 2 hours using Linux
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- touchpadder 7y agoyear 2150, Scientists Confirm Traces of Water in Europe
- swasheck 7y agoI appreciate the subtle environmental commentary
- kilo_bravo_3 7y agoI highly recommend we attempt no landing there.
- teddyh 7y agoContext: Parent is paraphrasing a well-known quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
- jedberg 7y agoDid you ever read the third book, 2063? They land on Europa and we get to learn why that was a bad idea.
- blattimwind 7y agoSoon... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Report (the film is quite good)
- saagarjha 7y agoReally great movie, especially considering its tiny budget. It’s pretty hard too if you’re into that sort of thing.
- Uhuhreally 7y agothere will definitely be bacteria living there
- SubiculumCode 7y agoGiven water vapor was observed, can those signatures be examined for organic compounds?