Because Mars is rather close to Earth. It's going to be very exciting to see wha...

Sukotto · on Aug 4, 2011

  ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.

anigbrowl · on Aug 4, 2011

Why do people feel the need to quote this whenever Europa is mentioned? congratulations, you have good taste in science-fiction, and now it would be nice to move on to the science part and dispense with the fiction bit. Enough with the space hippy act already.

stcredzero · on Aug 4, 2011

congratulations, you have good taste in science-fiction

More like, congratulations, you can be conditioned like Pavlov's dog.

Apocryphon · on Aug 5, 2011

Schismatrix reference here

BasDirks · on Aug 4, 2011

I upvoted you, because I had to look up the origin of that quote, making me want to read the book. Thanks.

Sukotto · on Aug 4, 2011

So, you were the one. Thanks :)

The hive mind disagrees with my sense of humour today. Or maybe it was the ALLCAPS. I would have quoted Tom Swift but since we were talking about why we might not go to Europa (and I don't recall what book it was where he went to the moons of Jupiter)... shrug oh well.