Nuking Europa, Nukes and other 'futuristic' ideas for exploring Europa Options

[SergeyVLazarev]

Hi all! In my opinion, Europa explorer must be cheap and simple.

It must consist of 5 parts - 2 orbiters, 3 small and robust landers, and 3 nuclear and termonuclear bombs. I think that 10 Kt - 100 kt - 1 Mgt sequence is optimal.


First orbiter is robust, high protected from radioactivity, armed device. On high orbite over Europe
With simple and primitive long focused camera, laser-radar. It must to spectacle and record all nuclear explosion parametres.
has also a radio recever from landers.

second orbiter is orbiting low over the Europe. It must to fly over epicenter of nuke and drop lander to measure and see all.
To defend more complex second orbiter from radioactivity rays of nuclear explosion, we struck and explode a nuke in another side of Europe

Why nukes? Because it reveal all. First one, we"ll have a great quake of Europe. And can record all seismic infomation without landers.
next one. we can to melt ice and see a clear water - just hollow in the crust!!!

at 3 rd.

We dont need a special lander. If we can melt great hollow in crust - we'll have a liquid water to catch our lander! We dont need airbags, rockets. Just an robust "lander" like small susmarine!!

4 th. we ll have great cloud of water vapour and ice to take from there any chemical information.

[RNeuhaus]

IMHO, it is not necesarry to use nuke on Europe but, much better, it might be overcome with a well designed the layout of sesismic structure and points and using sophisticated seismic instruments with enough sensibility to percibe any land echos or vibrations.

On the other hand, the Moon is somewhat bigger than Europe Moon and the mission of Apollo has utilized several sesimic test without a nuke. Why do nuke instead of impact of penetrators to Europe?

I might be wrong with that and the nuke is okay if that it is the only ONE solution but without any harm to anything of the Europe moon.

Anyway, we must try the universe with the minimal harm or impact.

Using a brute force with a nuke is like a signal of pedrator.

Rodolfo

[ljk4-1]

IMHO, it is not necesarry to use nuke on Europe but, much better, it might be overcome with a well designed the layout of sesismic structure and points and using sophisticated seismic instruments with enough sensibility to percibe any land echos or vibrations.

On the other hand, the Moon is somewhat bigger than Europe Moon and the mission of Apollo has utilized several sesimic test without a nuke. Why do nuke instead of impact of penetrators to Europe?

I might be wrong with that and the nuke is okay if that it is the only ONE solution but without any harm to anything of the Europe moon.

Anyway, we must try the universe with the minimal harm or impact.

Using a brute force with a nuke is like a signal of pedrator.

Rodolfo

When you've got supernovae and hypernovae that can vaporize and sterilize many light years of a galaxy, do you really think a couple of our nukes are going to even be noticed by the wider Universe?