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MLBrandow · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 105 Location: Tallahassee, FL

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/newworlds/EnceladusWorld.html

I thought this was cool enough to share. I don't know enough about physics or biology to be able to understand why, but conventional knowledge suggests that it's not possible for something as far away as Saturn from the Sun to be able to have water. It's very, very interesting though.

Quote: Scientists find the warm temperatures at Enceladus' south pole difficult to explain if sunlight is the only heat source. How a moon smaller in width than the state of Arizona can generate this much internal heat, and why it is concentrated at the south pole, is one of many puzzles surrounding the new discovery.

MLBrandow · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 105 Location: Tallahassee, FL

Guess I'm the only one who cares :p

David · Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 12385 Location: Louisiana

Maybe not if you had posted this in the science forum where I just moved it.

MLBrandow · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 105 Location: Tallahassee, FL

Didn't even know it existed! The wonders of the internet astound me again...

connermt · Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 1526 Location: CMH OHIO

Just goes to show how much we, as humans, don't understand about nature.
It makes me wonder abotu all the things we are missing on our own planet! It is amazing to go outside on a summer night, look up at the stars in the sky & think about what might be (& probably is) out there.

MLBrandow · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 105 Location: Tallahassee, FL

connermt wrote: Just goes to show how much we, as humans, don't understand about nature.
It makes me wonder abotu all the things we are missing on our own planet! It is amazing to go outside on a summer night, look up at the stars in the sky & think about what might be (& probably is) out there.

I'd personally like to know what kind of exotic things exist at the bottom of the oceans.

David · Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 12385 Location: Louisiana

It's funny how it's technologically easier to exist in space than it is the bottom of the oceans.

connermt · Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 1526 Location: CMH OHIO

MLBrandow wrote: connermt wrote: Just goes to show how much we, as humans, don't understand about nature.
It makes me wonder about all the things we are missing on our own planet! It is amazing to go outside on a summer night, look up at the stars in the sky & think about what might be (& probably is) out there.

I'd personally like to know what kind of exotic things exist at the bottom of the oceans.

I actually saw a documentary on that - it was really interesting. On the sea bed of the Gulf of Mexico, they are finding small (several hundred miles² which is small for the ocean) individual, independent colonies of plant & animal life found no where else on earth. You would be tooling along in your mini sub looking at the ocean floor & seeing nothing but water & ground then all of a sudden BAM tons or grass & plants & small animals for a couple hundred Yeats, then it just stops. Then after a few miles BOOM another totally different set of plants & animals - fascinating

black noise · Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 354

connermt wrote: MLBrandow wrote: connermt wrote: Just goes to show how much we, as humans, don't understand about nature.
It makes me wonder about all the things we are missing on our own planet! It is amazing to go outside on a summer night, look up at the stars in the sky & think about what might be (& probably is) out there.

I'd personally like to know what kind of exotic things exist at the bottom of the oceans.

I actually saw a documentary on that - it was really interesting. On the sea bed of the Gulf of Mexico, they are finding small (several hundred miles² which is small for the ocean) individual, independent colonies of plant & animal life found no where else on earth. You would be tooling along in your mini sub looking at the ocean floor & seeing nothing but water & ground then all of a sudden BAM tons or grass & plants & small animals for a couple hundred Yeats, then it just stops. Then after a few miles BOOM another totally different set of plants & animals - fascinating

Even more reason to stop dirtying the oceans and cutting down rainforests... we're destroying thousands of species without ever knowing they existed.

Rilzic · Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 385 Location: Alb, NM, USA

Pretty cool. I love things about space exploration.

Unfortunately things in space exploration take years to develop.

doubt there is life but all these places with H2O could be great for bases.... But I’ll be dead by that time anyway

foadi · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 13961 Location: pattaya thailand

How far is enceladus from saturn?

anselfir · Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 23041 Location: ZzZzZzZz

let's grow strawberries on that thing so we can have a planet of strawberry ice.