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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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A little brightness to aid your quest towards the weekend.  Those poor S.O.B’s didn’t stand a chance. 

When some fangirl says that Frozen is  the best movie ever...

Dalek, Doctor Who, Watercolor Art Print

For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

“I could do so much more.”

That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ.

The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger (via teentaal)

You be careful, because your song is ending, sir. It is returning, it is returning through the dark. And then Doctor... Oh, but then... He will knock four times.

Carmen, Planet of the Dead

So we terraform the planet; but the planet areoforms us.

Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars 

You love your wife! I love your wife! Aren't we both on the same side?

Giacomo Casnova (portrayed by David Tennant), BBC 3′s Casanova (2005)