Europa, The Next Earth? Or Worse?
 

They said Europa the moon of Saturn, is relatively the same size as earth, do you think it could hold human life?

Discuss, and insight me with your knowledge.

I dont know... Just because something is the same size as earth doesn't mean its atmosphere will be the same and all that.

Titan..........

No, simple as that.

elaborate .

Its a moon, no water, its not in the same proximity to the Sun as the Earth is to the Sun to sustain life. Size doesn't mean life.

"Recent observations with HST reveal that Europa has a very tenuous atmosphere (1e-11 bar) composed of oxygen. Of the many moons in the solar system only five others (Io, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and Triton) are known to have atmospheres. Unlike the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, Europa's is almost certainly not of biologic origin. It is most likely generated by sunlight and charged particles hitting Europa's icy surface producing water vapor which is subsequently split into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen escapes leaving the oxygen. "

Even tho' it's no where near the sun, It must contain somesort of life whether it be micro-organisms or Ice Fish.

mars is probably the closest thing to a habitable planet imo, i think if we went and put bases on it and slowly changed the atmosphere ourselves and forced it to change into an earth-like planet but it would take mad long

and the thing with saturn maybe i dont know anything about that moon but even if it was habitable it would take forever to get there, fuck talkin about habitable planets scientists need to get closer to light speed and faster

yeh but ok suppose hypothetically mankind was to survive for billions of years...wouldn't the expansion of the sun into a red giant deem mars inhospitable eventually, after we reach the peroid of mars being the new earth climate-wise...we would be driven out further out of the solar system, so wouldn't europa be feasible in the long run, well hypothetically anyways seein as mankind are so stupid we'll probably wipe out our own species through dumb shit like nuclear warfare.

^the sun wont be going away for a VEERY long time, and nasa is already talking about putting bases on the moon around NOW like in the present-2015 range, they'll eventually get to mars, it wont take a billion years to get there technology improved so much in only 40 years imagine another 100 or 200, so yea eventually this entire solar system will die off but atleast we'll be on mars for like 900 million years before something starts happening lol

inhabiting once planet would along the same lines as a virus invading a body to take over we have been given a way of life on an extremely hospitable planet and all we do is dwindle its resources and look for another to do the same

That my be true, but as a race, we must what we can to survive. And its not like there is anyone on mars to rob from. If we don't take action and make progress for survival even if it mean's sacrificing something else then it must be done. I can't agree with the British-Aboriginal Invasion on North America, but they have the right idea.

so humanity is basically parasites......

well pretty much so but then again what creature isn't a parasite in the grand scheme of things...we all consume the world's resources whether it be other animals or plants and other organic materials