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Europa Missions

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Title text: Before resurfacing, they promise to inspect the ice for any evidence of hockey-playing life.

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In recent years, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have sent spacecraft to observe Jupiter’s moon Europa. According to NASA, the moon could be a candidate for life, so it would make sense that the scientists would send spacecraft to observe it. The first two crafts, the Europa Clipper and Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, respectively, will investigate the ocean, topography and chemistry of the moon, to help in searching for signs of life. Europa's ocean is frozen on the top, thus "subsurface ocean."

A Zamboni is a vehicle that, rather than transport, is meant to quickly resurface ice rinks after hockey games. The comic talks about a hypothetical spacecraft carrying a Zamboni because the National Hockey League wants to expand their games to Europa due to the surface of the moon’s oceans being completely covered in ice. Hockey in reduced gravity would be an interesting idea.

The title text talks about finding hockey playing life on Europa, which would be unlikely, as the life on earth and Europa are completely separate cultures,^{[citation needed]} so even if the life on Europa does have its own forms of entertainment similar to sports, it would be unlikely that the sports played have even remotely similar rules or equipment.

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[Cueball's upper body is shown; he is in front of an image of a spacecraft.]

Cueball: There are now three spacecraft headed to Europa:

Cueball: NASA's Europa Clipper, which investigate Europa's subsurface ocean,

[In a longer shot, Cueball, Ponytail, and Hairy are all shown standing in front of another spacecraft image, with Cueball gesturing at it.]

Cueball: ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, which will study the topography and chemistry of Europa and the other moons,

[Another closeup on Cueball, who is in front of an image of a Zamboni with a firing rocket nozzle on its bottom.]

Cueball: And the NHL's Zamboni Voyager, which plans to resurface Europa.

Voice out of frame: Oh no.

Cueball: We tried to stop them, but the league is set on an expansion.

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This is a test. PoolloverNathan^{[stalk the blue seas]} 20:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

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interesting way of writing quotations xd

hmmm this one of putting "<p>" in a line break will come in handy for when i want it to start at the same place than the first line

Please beware that <p> on mediawiki also disables automatic paragraph breaks, so you need a closing </p> or you'll break automatic paragraph formatting for the rest of the page. Zmatt (talk) 22:06, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

edit: da hek did that "</div>" come from An user who has no account yet (talk) 14:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

hi uh its hard to get here. is this a reference to undocumented feature??? hmm... this is interesting.
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