Studies of data from Galileo appear to show a huge lake, not far below the surface, and it's mixing with the ice above. All apparently very good signs for potential life there.
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Will Arthur C. Clarke turn out to be 'on the money' yet again? The quote was from 2010, when a re-activated HAL conveyed a message from the beings responsible for the black monoliths, who had seen emerging life on Europa - and did not want it interfered with.
So my question is - do we have a right to potentially muck up life on another world? This isn't a tribe in Africa who are just going to want TVs and Man Utd shirts anyway, even if we try not to spoil their current native lifestyle. No - this is life (if indeed we find it) that has evolved entirely off this planet (assuming panspermia is not correct). Extra-terrestrial life - which could be changed/damaged/destroyed if we send probes there, contrary to HAL's warning. Haven't we ceased colonial ways of thinking? Should we not tread very carefully? Or do we have a right - or even a requirement - to spread our human seed on other worlds?
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