Crowd-Funding a Mission To Jupiter's Moons 86
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Like so many great leaps for mankind, getting a human to one of Jupiter's moons must begin with a small step. And Objective Europa is aiming to do exactly that. A small team — architects, futurist designers, private space pioneers and even Jacques Cousteau's son — is beginning the planning stage to send human beings on a one-way trip to the Jovian moon Europa. The effort is headed up by Kristian Von Bengston, the founder of Copenhagen Suborbitals, an open source DIY space program based in his native Denmark. And he's quite serious about transporting a man or woman beyond our atmosphere, Mars and the asteroid belt."
I'd rather croud fund a mission to Uranus! (Score:1, Funny)
Thanks - I'm here all week!
It's raining men, Hallelujah! (Score:4, Funny)
[What it must have been like w]hen the oceans were being conquered with ships set to explore and no guarantee of returning.
But we'll be killed!
Nonsense. Simmons, what do you suppose the edge of the world looks like?
Uh, a great cliff... Oh, in the ocean, right. So, a giant waterfall off the edge?
Precisely. All the water pouring from the ocean for hundreds of years... Then why isn't the ocean dry?
...Rain! Rain must be filling it back up.
Obviously. Now, by what mechanism would water reach into the sky to first fall?
Ah... uhm... A bucket? No...
Fool, think! What moves water in the air?!
Oh, Wind!
Truly, it does. What moves ships upon the water?
...
Sails!
Wind!
Indeed. So, there is nothing to fear, you see?
With a firm mast and steady sail, if the edge be reached then just like rain we shall follow our jibs into the skies!
If you're lucky we may even wave good day to St. Peter, or meet the maker Himself!
So, we'll be Dead?!
Quite. Now fetch me an sturdy umbrella just in case. Columbus has volunteered to go first.