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Post by End Zone on Nov 14, 2023 2:59:48 GMT -7
europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-bottle/sign-on/Want to send your name on spacecraft to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons? NASA is offering everyone an opportunity to get your name etched onto a chip that is placed on the spacecraft for this mission which leaves planet Earth in 2024. Arrival at Europa is 2030. I signed up for the chip trip on November 14, 2023. I can't go to Jupiter's moon. But my name will go out there for me. How cool is that? EZ
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Post by thomas cat on Nov 14, 2023 19:25:11 GMT -7
europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-bottle/sign-on/Want to send your name on spacecraft to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons? NASA is offering everyone an opportunity to get your name etched onto a chip that is placed on the spacecraft for this mission which leaves planet Earth in 2024. Arrival at Europa is 2030. I signed up for the chip trip on November 14, 2023. I can't go to Jupiter's moon. But my name will go out there for me. How cool is that? EZ Thanks for the link. I was not aware some ordinary Joe could do something like this. My name is now going to Europa too.... I Just wanted to add a thought or two and some information. I did a little research about how this would be done. I knew the names would have to be very small...but not this small. Here is a quote from this web page... NASA pushes to get more names in for chip headed to Jupiter's moon
"When the names are all submitted by the deadline, NASA says technicians with their Microdevices Laboratory plan to use a beam to stencil the names onto a microchip that is the size of a dime. Each of the lines of text will be smaller than 1/1000th of the width of a human hair, which equals to about 75 nanometers."It may be small, but it's still my name and it's going to a place where no man has ever been. Yeah, it's a little silly, but it sparks the imagination and is the intended purpose of this. As I'm sure you know, when it comes to Europa, it was the focus of both movies....2001 A Space Oddity and the sequel 2010. Both are just science fiction, still if there is life within our own solar system even if it's just microbial life, Europa is a prime candidate.
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Post by End Zone on Nov 15, 2023 4:10:16 GMT -7
europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-bottle/sign-on/Want to send your name on spacecraft to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons? NASA is offering everyone an opportunity to get your name etched onto a chip that is placed on the spacecraft for this mission which leaves planet Earth in 2024. Arrival at Europa is 2030. I signed up for the chip trip on November 14, 2023. I can't go to Jupiter's moon. But my name will go out there for me. How cool is that? EZ Thanks for the link. I was not aware some ordinary Joe could do something like this. My name is now going to Europa too.... I Just wanted to add a thought or two and some information. I did a little research about how this would be done. I knew the names would have to be very small...but not this small. Here is a quote from this web page... NASA pushes to get more names in for chip headed to Jupiter's moon
"When the names are all submitted by the deadline, NASA says technicians with their Microdevices Laboratory plan to use a beam to stencil the names onto a microchip that is the size of a dime. Each of the lines of text will be smaller than 1/1000th of the width of a human hair, which equals to about 75 nanometers."It may be small, but it's still my name and it's going to a place where no man has ever been. Yeah, it's a little silly, but it sparks the imagination and is the intended purpose of this. As I'm sure you know, when it comes to Europa, it was the focus of both movies....2001 A Space Oddity and the sequel 2010. Both are just science fiction, still if there is life within our own solar system even if it's just microbial life, Europa is a prime candidate. TC, if you didn't notice, I'm an astronomy buff. I read many articles per month about space events and discoveries. There are an estimated 100 to 200 billion galaxies in the universe. The new JWST parked in a 1,000,000-mile orbit around Earth is pushing that galaxy estimate higher by the week. There are 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Most stars have planets. Many planets have moons. And so it goes all the way down to the smallest animals and then the tiniest slime microbes on Earth. Is there life "out there" somewhere? Maybe it is at Europa. No one knows today but we'll find out before much longer. Scientists do know that basic life on Earth started and ended a couple times. The building blocks for life changed as the Earth aged. The same aging process is going on "out there" on trillions of young and old planets composed of rock, oxygen, and water. The ingredients in the recipe for earthly life--water, elements associated with life, available sources of energy--appear to be almost everywhere astronomers looked. Now the bad news. They have yet to find another “Earth” with life as we know it. Observing signs of possible microbial life in exoplanet atmospheres is currently just out of reach. Space systems can barely detect atmospheric molecules in other planet's atmospheres. No convincing evidence of advanced technology--artificial signals by radio or other means, or the telltale sign of, say, massive extraterrestrial engineering projects--has yet crossed our formidable arrays of telescopes. Finding non-intelligent life is far more likely; Earth existed for most of its history, 4.25 billion years, without a whisper of technological life, and human civilization is a very late-breaking development. I read an article on 11/13 at space.com about the JWST detecting two distant galaxies that sent photons our way over 30 billion years ago. Those are not the most-distant galaxies detected by JWST, but it's close. The two galaxies are moving away from the Milky Way Galaxy at super-fast speeds based on the photon's red-shift measurements. Here's the big problem. The so-called Big Bang occurred less than 14 billion years ago. The light from the two galaxies began its journey over 30 billion years ago. I'm waiting on science to explain the discrepancy. Nothing moves faster than light--per current knowledge. Some physicists are trying to convince us that gravity lensing in deep space is tricking our eyeballs and the two galaxies are not that far away, or a new kind of astrophysics is needed to explain reality, or maybe even that Einstein's theory of relativity needs tweaked or scraped altogether. JWST is teaching all of us new things about deep space. The next big space telescope after JWST is going to reveal even more information about deep space. Someday, we'll find out that Earth life is not alone. Trillions x trillions of chemical processes are ongoing on Earth and in deep space. Life on Earth is never-ending -- until the big Sun burn happens many billions of years from now. The same holds true throughout the universe (or multi-universe) as we know it today. And some space humor to start your day...
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