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[QUOTE=shoot twice;20443635]I don't mean any insult to you but I have got to ask... Where you always this big of a nerd?
Yes. In elementary school (Grade 1-6) I took books out from the library about Space, planets, etc and understood that E=MC2 meant you could get a shitload of energy from very little mass. I watched all the sci-fi shows and became interested in Time Travel after watching "The Day After Tomorrow" by Gerry Anderson, and a documentary about it on Nova.
I really became interested in Europa after watching 2010: Odyssey 2. Arthur C Clarke's idea to write about Europa wasn't just a guess. It had long been thought that Europa's had liquid water beneath the surface, caused by Jupiter's gravity constantly tugging and twisting it, creating friction and warming the ice. Liquid water seems vital for life to exist, and the energy from Jupiter's gravity may mean that life there may not need much sunlight to exist.
If the Clipper mission can find a spot of ice that is both thin enough and faces the sun, we might be able to land a craft on it that could drill down through the ice and launch a little robotic submarine to swim around, gather photos and samples and maybe, possibly, discover some fishy aliens.
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