3234: Europa Missions
| Europa Missions |
 Title text: Before resurfacing, they promise to inspect the ice for any evidence of hockey-playing life. |
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- [Cueball is standing 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,
- [Cueball, Ponytail, and Hairy are 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,
- [Cueball 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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What is the possible area a Zamboni can do? How many would be needed to cover the whole surface? SDSpivey (talk) 02:56, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
- Europa has a surface area of about 3.061Γ10^7 km^2. A zamboni seems to cover about a 1.2 m^2 area (about 0.6m by 2m) at any given time. So if you simply cover all of Europa in zambonis (only like 3 trillion) and then drive them all forward their own length at the same time without crashing them into each other. So probably less than 3 trillion would be my guess (Also probably more than 2).
- They probably do like 8L/h and cover about 8000 m^2/h. So if they had 30 litre tanks, you would need 1 billion zambonis (0.03 km^2 each), and they would take 4 hours. Or for 1 month : 5 million Zambonis, refueled 200 times each (30 billion litres propane total). For constant resurfacing, like a normal ice rink (~10 times a day), you would need 2 billion zambonis running constantly (90 terawatts). Sameldacamel34 (talk) 08:41, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
Is Randall confusing the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter and Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer here? wikipedia link
Also this feels like it is probably a reference to 17776, what with all of its topics and the recent rise in interest in that work. SkiesShaper (talk) 03:47, 18 April 2026 (UTC) Add comment
