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There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus so it's not just one random moon.
by harph 3y ago
There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus so it's not just one random moon.
- spartanatreyu 3y agoSticking with just the Jovian moons, both Ganymede and Callisto are thought to have subsurface oceans too. Ganymede's oceans might be the largest in the entire Solar System. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_(moon)#Subsurface_oceans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_(moon)#Subsurface_oce... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callisto_(moon)#Internal_structure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callisto_(moon)#Internal_struc...
- jcims 3y ago800km deep. Oof. Seems like an ocean world could develop intelligence but technology would be quite difficult.
- jayGlow 3y agothere are some pretty cool scifi books that look at how an aquatic species might develop technology. the "ringworld's children" involves a species that develops on a frozen world with an ocean beneath the ice.
- developer93 3y agoOur technology would be quite difficult, we might not even be able imagine what form an alien race's might take.
- sharlos201068 3y agoTechnology is technology, it's about exploiting the laws of nature to do things. If you want to create refined metals you'll need to heat it, you'll need a source of heat, and you'll need to isolate it from the surrounding water long enough to finish the process. Being underwater makes a lot things much much more difficult or impossible. That's even ignoring your species won't be incidentally exposed to sources of easy energy like fire occurring naturally before learning to create it yourself. There's certainly workarounds and alternatives that could make it _possible_ to develop technologies like fire, metallurgy, complex chemistry, etc. but they'll all be so much harder to discover and do that no early civilisation would consider the required experimentation worthwhile.
- developer93 3y agoAgain, you're thinking human centric. Maybe they could do amazing things with non metallic materials which we haven't needed or which haven't been practical for us due to the different circumstances.