NASA prepares tiny robotic swimmers for deep space ocean exploration!

NASA prepares tiny robotic swimmers for deep space ocean exploration! November 23, 2024 4:25 pm BuckGalaxy

Wow how cool is this!? Tiny, autonomous 3D printed robots that are designed to explore subsurface oceans on alien worlds!!! In a decade or so they’ll fly billions of miles to Europa and other ocean worlds and…

Wait for it.

Engineers recently tested prototypes of NASA’s SWIM (Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers) concept, showcasing a revolutionary approach to searching for life on icy moons like Europa. These tiny, autonomous robots are designed to explore subsurface oceans…

SWIM envisions a swarm of cellphone-sized underwater robots delivered by a cryobot, which would melt through Europa’s thick ice crust. Once deployed, these micro-swimmers would seek out temperature and chemical changes that could signal the presence of life.

This makes me want to fucking scream! Yeah let’s wait another decade or so and once again look for the conditions that support life.

Please, somebody take the people who make these decisions outside and shoot them in the head.

NASA's Prime Directive by BuckGalaxy 2024-11-23 16:28:42
- To cautiously and slowly go where we have gone before and do the same thing over and over. by BuckGalaxy 2024-11-23 17:03:37
  - I disagree by RL 2024-11-26 20:14:28
    - OK by BuckGalaxy 2024-11-27 23:47:12
  - I have sensed this impatience in you before, Grasshopper. by ER 2024-11-23 21:05:15
    - So given what you said by BuckGalaxy 2024-11-23 23:33:01
      - I would be curious about the power sources they could use at that size by RL 2024-11-26 20:38:39
        
        WOW CHECK THIS OUT RL by BuckGalaxy 2024-12-18 18:14:59
        
        This sort of thing gets a story about every 2 years by RL 2024-12-19 14:30:48
        
        Let's dig down into the weeds here by BuckGalaxy 2024-12-19 17:33:24
        
        Bad info by RL 2024-12-19 17:58:06
        
        You don't need a 1 gram diamond though by BuckGalaxy 2024-12-19 19:29:34
        
        I am not sure what you are thinking by RL 2024-12-19 20:29:11
        
        Here's another article by BuckGalaxy 2024-12-19 21:07:27
        
        From the little I read by RL 2024-12-19 22:58:13
        
        I would think a 1 gram (5 carat) diamond could contain a very large amount of carbon-14 by BuckGalaxy 2024-12-19 19:47:06
        
        High Efficiency Micro-Hydro Water Flow Pump Hydroelectric Power Energy Generator by BuckGalaxy 2024-12-04 11:51:28
        
        You make a lot of good points by BuckGalaxy 2024-11-28 00:03:11
      - I don't see a cellphone sized robot fish will be able to recognize "Life". by ER 2024-11-24 05:44:26
        
        I disagree somewhat by RL 2024-11-27 08:13:49
        
        Life on Mars by BuckGalaxy 2024-11-24 13:46:05
        
        I think we're talking in circles by BuckGalaxy 2024-11-24 13:42:50

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