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[Sheb]

I'm pretty sure Vostok is a drill station in Antartica.

Anyway, no one want a hundred-miles interferometer? This kind of baby would allow us to take pictures of near exoplanets. Definitely my #1 space mission, even before melting through Europa's ice cap.

[palsch]

Sadly both Darwin and the TPF are dead projects and nothing much like them is likely until there is a massive spike in global space science funding.

[10ebbor10]

I'm pretty sure Vostok is a drill station in Antartica.

As well as a Sovjet rocket program. The first manned program, IIRC

[Loud Whispers]

**Current plan to get through is a nuclear drill. Ie, a controlled meltdown.

I bet the hypothetical European lifeforms will love that...

For science. Charles Darwin collected his specimens with poison, traps and shooting. It's a less than elegant method, but it is cheap.

[Scoops Novel]

**Current plan to get through is a nuclear drill. Ie, a controlled meltdown.

I bet the hypothetical European lifeforms will love that...

For science. Charles Darwin collected his specimens with poison, traps and shooting. It's a less than elegant method, but it is cheap.

And easier than carrying 20 kilometers of drill to Europa.

The odds of watching celestial overlords are too high to risk that, in my opinion.

[Dutchling]

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[Loud Whispers]

China embarks on the road to transhumanism.

[Sheb]

Even if its only 20km of ice on Europa (would be 50 for all we know), would be around twice the deepest hole we ever dug, and we had a large supply dump ("Earth") and Russians.

Did anyone ever try the Europa method of digging in the Antartic? Also, Just getting the reactor, rover and cable all the way there will be hard.

[Scoops Novel]

China embarks on the road to transhumanism.

I have the expected severe doubts. I'd never before heard of this site.

[10ebbor10]

Even if its only 20km of ice on Europa (would be 50 for all we know), would be around twice the deepest hole we ever dug, and we had a large supply dump ("Earth") and Russians.

Did anyone ever try the Europa method of digging in the Antartic? Also, Just getting the reactor, rover and cable all the way there will be hard.

I'm afraid you won't get away with an environmental impact statement with that one. I mean, it's rather polluting.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Blowing a hole in Antarctica is almost certainly a bad idea.

[Sirus]

Well, yeah. I'd rather us not go through the Second Impact, thanks.

[Sheb]

Why is it a bad idea? We're digging in Antartica all the time.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Digging is one thing, a thermonuclear detonation within the ice is quite another. The heat and the force of it could and likely would effect an extremely wide area. Antarctica already experiences icequakes on a regular basis.

[10ebbor10]

It's not a thermonuclear detonation. Nuclear reactor =/= bomb. It's a nuclear heating element. Hell, at worst it'll make a hole less than 2 meters across.