NASA: Cassini Detects Hint of Fresh Air at Dione

[MRB_Doom]

Cool.

Any one else here who wants to explore all the moons in our Solar system? Ehm, except Europa of course.

[Gez]

MRB_Doom said:

Any one else here who wants to explore all the moons in our Solar system? Ehm, except Europa of course.

I don't think we've advanced enough to be able to use them in peace.

[Maes]

MRB_Doom said:

Any one else here who wants to explore all the moons in our Solar system?

NO! We will be KILL BE DEMONS!

[Marcaek]

No Maes, we will be kill, THEN we will be demons.

:P

[NiTROACTiVE]

That's pretty cool! I wonder if someday that the world gets so overpopulated, that some people of Earth will start moving to Cassini along with resources to make new cities? That's if Cassini DOES have fresh air like Earth.

[45th Parrallel]

MRB_Doom said:

Ehm, except Europa of course.

Why can't we go there?

[Gez]

sgt dopey said:

Why can't we go there?

A monolith told us it was off-limit. Who are we to argue with quasi-divine stone robots?

[GreyGhost]

NitroactiveStudios said:

That's pretty cool! I wonder if someday that the world gets so overpopulated, that some people of Earth will start moving to Cassini along with resources to make new cities? That's if Cassini DOES have fresh air like Earth.

Will be a great place to live, if you can cope with chronic hypoxia.

"At the Dione surface, this atmosphere would only be as dense as Earth's atmosphere 300 miles (480 kilometers) above the surface."

[NiTROACTiVE]

GreyGhost said:

Will be a great place to live, if you can cope with chronic hypoxia.

Well before living on the planet, we get construction workers in protective spacesuits to build the cities and build giant glass domes and it would turn out like this:



Only there would be grass and other plants around it because Cassini doesn't have those.

[Quasar]

NitroactiveStudios said:

Only there would be grass and other plants around it because Cassini doesn't have those.

I should say not considering Cassini is a space probe.

The moon it found oxygen on is called Dione.

[Maes]

GreyGhost said:

Will be a great place to live, if you can cope with chronic hypoxia.

And if you can cope with the extreme (-186°C) cold, too.

[NiTROACTiVE]

Quasar said:

I should say not considering Cassini is a space probe.

The moon it found oxygen on is called Dione.

Damn it, I can't believe I messed up like that! Oh well, but you should know what I mean by having domed cities on Dione.

[petePESTILENCE]

The dome idea is something I always thought would work as well...
But what of meteorites and the such?
It would have to be pretty solid material for it not to destroy the dome.

[NiTROACTiVE]

petePESTILENCE said:

The dome idea is something I always thought would work as well...
But what of meteorites and the such?
It would have to be pretty solid material for it not to destroy the dome.

Yeah, the dome would have to be made with a very strong glass to stand meteorites and other things that can break glass.

[petePESTILENCE]

I was thinking maybe something else that's not glass...
What else is hard and transparent/translucent ?

[45th Parrallel]

petePESTILENCE said:

I was thinking maybe something else that's not glass...
What else is hard and transparent/translucent ?

Plastic

[petePESTILENCE]

sgt dopey said:

Plastic

Plastic would melt.....

[Technician]

petePESTILENCE said:

I was thinking maybe something else that's not glass...
What else is hard and transparent/translucent ?

Transparent aluminum. Duh.

[petePESTILENCE]

Technician said:

Transparent aluminum. Duh.

That stuff exists?????? :D

[GreyGhost]

petePESTILENCE said:

Plastic would melt.....

Fairly unlikely if the average temperature's around -186°C.

[printz]

Gez said:

A monolith told us it was off-limit. Who are we to argue with quasi-divine stone robots?

By that you mean a computer chip?

[MRB_Doom]

Doom fans might get a boner from reading these quotes, if you like other dimensions and Hell being a part of anything, anywhere.

"Miller: Oh. My. God. What happened to your eyes?

Dr. Weir: Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

Miller: What are you talking about?

Dr. Weir: I created the Event Horizon to reach the stars, but she's gone much, much farther than that. She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos. Pure... evil. When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was alive! Look at her, Miller. Isn't she beautiful?

Miller: Your "beautiful" ship killed its crew, Doctor.

Dr. Weir: Well... now she has another crew. Now she has us."

---

Any one else here dare to try make that kind of trip in real life?

I would do it just to find out what it would look like in the beyond.

[DoomUK]

Hurry up and find some microscopic organisms on another planet/moon.

[Gez]

printz said:

By that you mean a computer chip?

No, HAL merely relayed the message.

Okay so since people don't know their sci-fi classics. 2010: Odyssey Two ends with Jupiter turning into another sun, which will warm up its moons and turn them into habitable worlds, and humans are given this message: "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS—EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE."

In the movie version, the message is a bit longer: "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS—EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE."

That's why MRB and I have been referencing.

[j4rio]

Cool, now astronomy books can add another line about Dione. I haven't heard of Rhea discovery as well.

[hex11]

GreyGhost said:

Fairly unlikely if the average temperature's around -186°C.

/me builds giant igloo around fancy man-city

[petePESTILENCE]

hex11 said:

/me builds giant igloo around fancy man-city

But where do we get the ice? :O

[45th Parrallel]

petePESTILENCE said:

But where do we get the ice? :O

From water

[petePESTILENCE]

sgt dopey said:

From water

Wouldn't there be a few sciency problem when transporting earths water?

[GreyGhost]

Don't need it.

The NASA article said:
"Dione's oxygen appears to derive from either solar photons or energetic particles from space bombarding the moon's water ice surface and liberating oxygen molecules, Tokar said."