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Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons

36 points • by geox • yesterday at 3:23 AM • 21 comments • view on HN

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veexx103 • today at 3:29 AM

If life really exists there, it implies that life is everywhere in the universe.

That was absolutely terrifying.

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sage981 • today at 3:12 AM

Bet their civilization's 'Hello World' is still stuck in an infinite loop. Fascinating possibilities though.

I_dream_of_Geni • today at 12:41 AM

OK... Serious question here: we find "life" (algae?) on one of Saturn's moons or one of Jupiter's moons. So, we spend ~$50 Billion (arguably much more) and find "life". So? Why is this important to people? There isn't one chance in (place your own word here) that we can do anything about it or even send humans there. Seriously want to know what people really think...

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jibal • yesterday at 3:38 AM

> In fact, spacecrafts already in planning could be used to identify evidence of life there much easier than previously thought, should it exist.

But there's no reason to think that it does.

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