/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4663461
>quick question: will europa even have water? I know that people expext to find a liquid mass inside, but do we have any confirmation that this is actual H20 and not another fluid unable to sustain life?

The ice itself is normal water ice. It'd be more remarkable by far if there were anything but regular water underneath.

>>4168602

Nor are earth bacteria or virii invincible. There is no guarantee they would survive long enough, especially on a trip where they are exposed to space the entire way, to infect anything when they arrive.

And yes, that is how it works. Study chirality, and you'll quickly discover that 'left handed' biology is incompatible with 'right handed' biology to an extent that we could not even digest oppositely configured alien vegetables or animals much less be infected by their germs.