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European Scientists Want to Shoot a Giant Bullet at Europa

Europa has been calling to astrobiologists for years. Although its surface is frigid and bombarded with radiation, inside it contains a vast liquid ocean that might be capable of supporting life. NASA is planning to launch an orbiter and lander to Europa in 2022, and during today’s meeting of NASA’s Outer Planets Assessment Group, scientists expressed interest in getting the European Space Agency (ESA) involved in the mission.

The most exciting proposal is for ESA to build a projectile that could penetrate a few meters below the surface of the icy Jovian moon, to learn about its geophysics and search for hints about the moon’s ability to support life.

Read about the full plan here.

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Darrell Sweet cover art for a 1978 edition of Space Cadet by Robert A. Heinlein.

Oh yes.  I'm familiar with this suit. It's called the MIT BioSuit. Unlike other spacesuits of the past which provide the minimum atmospheric pressure needed for well, survival, the MIT BioSuit provides the pressure through mechanical counter pressure. For those of you who don't understand such terms, its really, really skintight.

Although this may resemble science fiction, this is an artist depiction of a possible space suit of the future. Many aerospace accomplishments were forged in the minds and imagination of science fiction.

A New Era: Conquering The Crossroads of Technology

“Flying cars. Transparent gadgets. 3D-printed replacement organs. Virtual reality. Nanobots.

On the surface, it seems like we’re finally entering the futuristic world that our parents say they were promised at the World’s Fair. Upon LIGO’s discovery of Einstein’s century-old proposal of the existence of gravitational waves, many are calling this a “new era” ofscience, astronomy, andspace exploration.

Every day, we’re bombarded with a LOT of news, including news about the latest and greatest in science and technology. Whether it’s a reusable rocket or the World’s Smallest 4K Camera, cancer-killing nanobots or Solar Roadways, the hyperloop or real hoverboards, it seems like we’re on the verge of achieving utopia.

So…

Where is all of this great stuff and why aren’t we there yet?” More at thedailycosmos.com.

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