Saturday after T’giving and not much is happening other than people shoving to be the first to get that $5 laptop…….my days of serenity is great….why?  I stay away from the madness of Xmas shopping……

Almost daily we are getting news about the possibility of life on other planets….Mars, moons of Endor, on and on…..and not to be out done it appears as if the possibility of life has been found on a moon of Jupiter……

An ice cavern containing as much water as the North American Great Lakes may provide a potential habitat for life on Jupiter’s moon Europa, scientists believe.

The salty “lake” is thought to be locked within Europa’s icy outer shell a few kilometres from the surface.

Other large pockets of liquid water are also likely to exist on the moon, it is claimed.

Scientists are excited by the discovery, which offers one of the best hopes yet of finding life beyond the Earth.

Evidence for the ice-covered lake in Europa’s Thera Macula region is seen in the shape of the terrain above it. The site appears to be marked by a fractured and collapsing “lid” of floating ice.

Scientists have long suspected that a liquid or slushy ocean exists under Europa’s surface, warmed by the tidal forces of Jupiter’s powerful gravity.

Theoretically, a liquid water ocean could provide a suitable habitat for life – but only if it was not too far from the surface.

Experts disagree about how thick the layer of covering ice is. The new research, based on images from the Galileo probe, suggests that water “lenses” could lie as little as three kilometres below the bottom of the surface crust.

Lead scientist Dr Britney Schmidt, from the University of Texas, said: “One opinion in the scientific community has been, ‘If the ice shell is thick, that’s bad for biology – that it might mean the surface isn’t communicating with the underlying ocean’.