#Europa report

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Devlog 2025-01-10

Another Friday, the second one of the year, which means this is the second devlog of the year!

This was a super productive week writing-wise; I managed to make quite a bit of progress on the next batch of Episode 4 content, with a little background teaser from one of the new scenes.

The sealed-with-a-kiss-jam (Our entry is somewhat inspired by Europa Report, a fantastic sci-fi movie that you absolutely should watch if you haven't yet!) is coming along a bit slower than I would have wanted, but we're getting there. We decided to allow Franco to shine and flex his creative muscles, and he created the character concepts for our small cast pictured in the header of this post!

(some of you might have seen an earlier version of this on the Patron Exclusive Discord channel)

We still haven't made a final decision on the new staff writer yet, but that should be happening in the coming week, which will allow the rest of the team a quick breather from running around like headless chickens.

Have a fantastic weekend, everyone! As always, stay safe, and be gentle and kind towards those around you!

[historysurvivalguide]

“Putting the Science in Science-Fiction” Movie Recommendation: Europa Report

Compared to the breadth of knowledge yet to be known... what does your life actually matter?

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Europa Report (2013)

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Horror Movie Review: Europa Report (2013)

After unmanned probes suggest that a hidden ocean and single-celled life exists on one of Jupiter's moons, six astronauts embark on an ill-fated exploratory mission.

Europa Report is a 2013 American found footage science fiction film directed by Sebastián Cordero and written by Philip Gelatt. Dr. Samantha Unger, CEO of Europa Ventures, narrates the story of the Europa One mission. Six astronauts embark on a privately funded mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa to find potential sources of life. The crew members are commander William Xu, pilot Rosa Dasque, chief…

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Weekend Wrap-Up: The Lesbians Are Here!

Dear Reader, what do you do when the real-life horrors encroach upon your physical and mental health? What do you do when you feel an exponential powerlessness in the face of widespread misappropriated hate and aggression? How do we make ourselves resilient against the bigoted powers that be? For me, the answers to many of the questions that have swarmed my mind lately lie in depictions of…

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Movie #15 of 2024: Europa Report

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Mini Review: Europa Report (2013)

A mockumentary following a team of six astronauts as they search for signs of life on one of Jupiter's moons.

A well grounded film carried by a team of great actors. I became very invested in their mission and tribulations. Recommended if you want something a bit slow but interesting enough to keep you invested. I'm also a sucker for space missions so that helps.

4/5

[mckitterick]

Europa Report (2013) had some things to say about this

It wrinkles my brain that Jupiter’s moon Europa has oceans that are sixty miles deep, while Earth’s oceans only reach seven miles deep at most. I’m willing to bet good money that there’s life in Europa’s oceans. Like five bucks. You hear me, NASA? I bet you five bucks that there’s life on Europa… Now that there’s money and reputation on the line, I bet they send a mission there real quick.

[heynhay]

duality of woman

[theaologies]

Bye Europa Clipper hope you find some funky octopus aliens up there

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today's movie

[pulsaris]

"Uma Bússola da UE para recuperar a competitividade e garantir uma prosperidade sustentável." Saiba mais no comunicado de imprensa oficial da Comissão Europeia localizado em: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/pt/ip_25_339 (artigo em português).

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I have run the people narratively (made up ass word) bottle-necked to death in outer space genre utterly dry. I have run out of ppl dying in outer space movies. Am I missing one somewhere? I know I'm a fucking snot about recommendations but seriously, have I missed any?

[wheredidmyfacego]

So I want to talk about the senate hearing today. I only just watched some highlights, but here's my thoughts anyway.

Actually, I just looked up who the people are who testified and that does temper some of my excitement. Still!

So this was an interview with some whistle blowers who supposedly have first hand knowledge of much of what's been going on in the background. Which really means, these are just some guys making claims. But apparently they're credible enough to get an 8 hour televised senate committee hearing, so I'm going to continue talking about this as though everything they said is true.

I think the most important piece of this is the timeline. Apparently government officials have had knowledge of non-human intelligence since the 30's. There has also been communication with these other lifeforms, not sure if that had a stated start date. Which follows that for at least the past almost 100 years, these lifeforms have been here but staying quiet and hidden. Most likely as some sort of agreement with the officials they've been in contact with.

One thing I thought was interesting was the reluctance to say "extra terrestrial". You could easily chock it up to a scientist not wanting to say without significant evidence, but maybe he has reason to suspect they are in fact terrestrial. With that idea, my mind goes to squids. Super intelligent deep sea squids who have been outpacing humans in technological development.

The other most likely scenario would be if they were from somewhere else in our solar system. The best candidate for that is Europa, the ice moon of Jupiter. Which, if they do have life, is most likely aquatic in nature which kind of still says squids.

The least likely scenario that still has some precedent behind it is that the beings are from Planet X. A "planet" which is as of yet unconfirmed to exist. This being true would lend a lot of credibility to the emerald tablets.

The final possibility is of course outside our solar system. That being true would completely change our understanding of the universe. It also is near impossible to say anything of merit about possible motives.

Here's what I think about those possibilities. I'm going to try to explain why they're here and hanging around as well as why they've agreed to keep quiet for so long. As far as why the human officials want to keep them hidden, the two obvious reasons are preventing public hysteria and getting special access to some limited resource. But really, humans are inherently irrational creatures and do stupid things pretty much constantly. Me included. Anyway.

First, Earth Squids. This is actually the easiest to explain. They also want to explore the universe. The crafts we are finding is them doing tests and trying to create a ship that can traverse outer space, and they're much closer than we are. They would rather not work with humans because we would slow them down and we're fighting all the time. That and our extremely different anatomies make it difficult to develop a craft we could share. That or they don't want to be nuked.

Next up I'll bring up the Anunnaki. Because, again, if that's real, then The Emerald Tablets are very likely to have a good amount of truth to them. They would probably be here with their tail between their legs a bit given the massive failures depicted. Scoping things out and trying to make things better all this time later. They wouldn't want to get too involved for fear of re-fucking things up. It would also make sense with the timeline because they apparently live 100s of Earth years.

The Europan Space Squids are probably the most difficult to theorize on. It would make sense to want to explore the only other place in the solar system with life on it. There are many little reasons to keep quiet, nothing big enough to be obvious enough to state here, at least for what I can think of. Though, if they are actually squids, that changes things significantly. They could not care about humans and being putting their efforts into connecting and possibly rescuing their brethren in the oceans. Or maybe Earth squids are actually from Europa and have been here doing research. It also brings up a less accurate version of the emerald tablets with all that entails.

Those possibilities all have some degree of not fully being extra terrestrial. If they are truly foreign to our planet, the only explanation that really fits is that they're researching. That could mean in a Star Trek scientific way of just wanting to gather knowledge. Or it could be in a opposition way to determine the most efficient method of eradication. This also applies if the Europans are not squids.

Those are my ideas based on what I heard said today. Purely conjecture from a layman. I don't even know how much I believe in any of this, but it's great fun to think about. This is still the most official thing we've seen regarding the existence of non-human intelligent life. I'd love to see it, and now I see a possibility of it in my lifetime. I won't respond quickly but please let me know what you think. Especially if you're not human.

[alter-koker]

the drop in my movie watching habits since i started grad school. u can see the very first week- i watched nothing for a whole week for the first time in maybe years

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He looks like he's about to sing the YMCA