NASA Soon to Destroy a 3.26$ Billion Space Probe in Order to Save Possible Alien World

[Master Disaster]

1 hour ago, MakeAMDGreatAgain said:

[Citation Needed] 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

[NumLock21]

They should just use the remaining fuel to leave orbit and fly into outer space, instead of crashing it.

[MakeAMDGreatAgain]

28 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

Theory isn't proof mate, srry

[AresKrieger]

11 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

They should just use the remaining fuel to leave orbit and fly into outer space, instead of crashing it.

Probably not possible, the gravity well from a planet the size of saturn is massive thus the fore required to leave orbit is also quite large (depending on distance of course but given it was between the planet and its rings it is fairly close relatively speaking of course)

[NumLock21]

3 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:

Probably not possible, the gravity well from a planet the size of saturn is massive thus the fore required to leave orbit is also quite large (depending on distance of course but given it was between the planet and its rings it is fairly close relatively speaking of course)

Well they can land it on one of Saturn's moon with the remaining fuel.

[Master Disaster]

13 minutes ago, MakeAMDGreatAgain said:

Theory isn't proof mate, srry

And I could say exactly the same thing to you....

 

Put it this way, its faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar more likely that there is intelligent life in the universe than not and to think we are the only ones is just arrogance on our part.

[Crossbred]

5 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

NASA isn't stupid, there is DEFINITIALLY life out there that isn't human. If you think there is no aliens, you are a selfish idiot.

That is DEFINITELY not how you spell definitely.

I don't think aliens exist.  

[Delicieuxz]

4 hours ago, ivan134 said:

I wonder what god they worship there.

The god of fish. And when NASA launched the Voyager spacecraft with the Golden Record on it, the fish god intercepted it and saw its images of fish being skewered and barbecued by humans, and the fish god now is preparing the fish people of Enceladus for a holy space-war to free our planet's fish from sacrilege.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

4 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Well they can land it on one of Saturn's moon with the remaining fuel.

 

 

If it was equipped with any sort of landing gear, that might have been a possibility.  Landing it apparently never was part of the plan. 

[rattacko123]

6 hours ago, RagnarokDel said:

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[Derangel]

2 hours ago, Crossbred said:

That is DEFINITELY not how you spell definitely.

I don't think aliens exist.  

In the traditional way we think of aliens, it's highly unlikely they exist. However intelligent life existing on more than one of the untold billions of plants in the universe? There is a pretty high probability of that. Actual intelligent alien life will likely look like something we could never even imagine. All of our visions of alien life are shaped by our own world and our own understanding, but life on Earth evolved in it's own way. Evolution on other words would likely have been radically different, creating alien life that is not remotely humanoid. It's possible there is other life out there that could be called humanoid, though I personally feel that it's unlikely unless another planet formed with the exact same conditions and development as our own.

[Linus_torvalds]

Of course there IS some kind of alien life out there. I am not talking about our solar system it can be anywhere. I am sure that somewhere there is as intelligent form of life as we are ourselves. Maybe even more intelligent then us. But to say that we are alone is stupid. It would be waste of space to create world so big for just one planet earth.

[Nicnac]

10 hours ago, MakeAMDGreatAgain said:

Theory isn't proof mate, srry

You should know that there is no such thing as "proof" in science. A theory is as close as you can get to reality.

[DrMikeNZ]

15 hours ago, Maybach123 said:

I dont think we will find intelligent life in our solar system, but there is probably bacteria or something similar. 

There is more likelihood of finding intelligent life on Saturn's moon than on Earth. I have been searching for a long time and still haven't found any here.

 

15 hours ago, Tech_Dreamer said:

How big of a damage can a probe bring (assuming it's relatively small compared to the size of that moon) , is it a bit of an over exaggerated move?

Biological contamination is a major concern with interplanetary exploration. If there is life on there, traces of organisms on the probe could potentially thrive there and could potentially be lethal to that life. Although the chances are pretty low, the small risk is too great to ignore. NASA routinely crashes probes to mitigate this risk.

[Thony]

Amazed that such old tech can do all that and send data from such far away.

 

When I die I would love to be reborn something like 10 years before we truly discover alien life. Just so I can experience how it feels to realize and get confirmation about alien life. 

 

With improving technology we could achieve that by 2050 easily !

[MakeAMDGreatAgain]

5 hours ago, Nicnac said:

You should know that there is no such thing as "proof" in science. A theory is as close as you can get to reality.

So now you're undermining science, why? The're plenty of objective / truthy things in science and our reality.

 

Saying "aliens exist", isn't

[Nicnac]

1 minute ago, MakeAMDGreatAgain said:

So now you're undermining science, why? The're plenty of objective / truthy things in science and our reality.

 

Saying "aliens exist", isn't

Neither is saying they don't

[MakeAMDGreatAgain]

1 minute ago, Nicnac said:

Neither is saying they don't

Well, the user I was quoting earlier quite literally said aliens exist. When he cited a theory, which isn't proof?

[Nicnac]

1 minute ago, MakeAMDGreatAgain said:

Well, the user I was quoting earlier quite literally said aliens exist. When he cited a theory, which isn't proof?

What he cited wasn't a scientific theory. http://www.livescience.com/21491-what-is-a-scientific-theory-definition-of-theory.html There is quite a difference between a scientific theory and the colloquial use of the word "theory".

You're right about that it doesn't proof anything about aliens though.

[NumLock21]

I remember reading somewhere about, even though they have found possible alien life. The rule was not to use Earth made machines to go and check it out, in order avoid contamination.

Well then, what is the point of trying to find alien life, when Earth made machine can't grab a sample to get a closer at it. 

 

 

 

 

[MakeAMDGreatAgain]

46 minutes ago, Nicnac said:

What he cited wasn't a scientific theory. http://www.livescience.com/21491-what-is-a-scientific-theory-definition-of-theory.html There is quite a difference between a scientific theory and the colloquial use of the word "theory".

You're right about that it doesn't proof anything about aliens though.

Lol bro, he cited this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

 

Which is 

Quote

The Drake equation is a probabilistic argument used to arrive at an estimate of the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy.

A probabilistic argument is a theory.

 

Scientific or not, is irrelevant

[Centurius]

5 minutes ago, MakeAMDGreatAgain said:

Lol bro, he cited this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

 

Which is 

A probabilistic argument is a theory 

Yet it isn't a scientific theory

[MakeAMDGreatAgain]

2 minutes ago, Centurius said:

Yet it isn't a scientific theory

It doesn't matter if it's a scientific theory or a "regular theory", it's still a theory and that isn't proof.

[Centurius]

Just now, MakeAMDGreatAgain said:

It doesn't matter if it's a scientific theory or not, it's still a theory and that isn't proof.

The user you quoted didn't say it was, they acknowledged the Drake equation isn't proof. What they argued was that a scientific theory can in fact be as good as physical proof.

[Tieox]

It's time we stopped using robots and started the first steps at getting manned flight back, sure we can utilize drones and such, but having boots on ground is always going to be superior where possible.