Oh no, say it ain't so!! Artemis Society goes whacky

> There is nothing ON Europa that could possibly be of any value to us.

At a minimum, there's rather a lot of scientific interest in that
particular body... other than that, it's hard to predict what will or
will not be useful 50 or more years down the road. As by far the largest
object other than the Sun in our solar system, Jupiter may have a lot of
uses for a long-range space program that we can't think of right now.
But I certainly agree a manned mission or even settlement on Europa is
not a very reasonable activity for any time in the near term!

Arthur Smith (apsmith@...