Cowboy Bebop Locales

[G1Ravage]

Pardon my lack of astronomical knowledge (no pun intended), but while researching an article for school, I came across this article on CNN.com about a new moon that was discovered by Jupiter. One part of the article really got my attention...where it mentioned Jupiter's "better-known" Galilean moons of:

Europa...Ganymede....and Callisto.

I had no idea.

[jeffrey 228]

That is what I saw already, I searched them up on a site and they are real names, but it does not bug me that much, anyway they probbly not be able to get that untill the second half of the 21st centry.

[Maphmaa]

Why is that so surprising? In the first episode Spike and Jet go to Tijuana, the Red Dragon Syndicate is based in Mars, episode 8 is called Waltz for Venus and the crew makes frequent trips to earth. You think they'd just make up some moons?

[Mitsuko]

I already knew those were moons of Jupiter, and it does make sense that they'd use real moons.

Originally posted by Maphmaa
Why is that so surprising? In the first episode Spike and Jet go to Tijuana, the Red Dragon Syndicate is based in Mars, episode 8 is called Waltz for Venus and the crew makes frequent trips to earth. You think they'd just make up some moons?

Yes I agree. It makes sense to use real moons rather than make them up.

-Mitsuko

[Gruntling]

That's what's really cool about Cowboy Bebop. Everything is realistic in a way. Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. (The only thing I find hard to believe is that we could be living on other planets and moons in 68 years!)

[Mynd Hed]

I don't find it THAT far-fetched. Think about it, if you had told somebody 68 years ago about cloning, genetic engineering, the Internet, computer graphics, some of our more recent developments in quantum mechanics, etc. etc. etc... he would have laughed in your face.

[Kataclysm5]

There is no way you could teraform a moon and make cities on it in that amount of time with our current technology.

[Mynd Hed]

Not with our current level of technology, no. But one assumes that there will be some advances in the next 68 years.

[EightOh]

Originally posted by Kataclysm5
There is no way you could teraform a moon and make cities on it in that amount of time with our current technology.

Who said anything about our CURRENT level of technology? The "current" level of technology in 1935, 68 years ago, or even 40 years ago, was pathetic when compared to what we have today. Who's to say another technology explosion won't occur in the future and advance us far past what we could envision now?

[Meson]

Got to rememebr the back story as well.That being the destruction of Luna, and the forced resettlement into space. I guess if it means life or death, you can do almost anthing.

[Mynd Hed]

Very good point. Actually, I saw a theoretical proposal (I think it was a show on the Discovery Channel, but it might have been The Learning Channel) once for partially terraforming Mars and putting human colonies there within fifty years. It was a stretch, but it was probably possible. The thing is that it would require the combined effort of the entire manufacturing capability of every corporation and every government on Earth combined for fifty years straight-- not too likely. But if it's "cooperate to get to Mars or die with a tiny chunk of the moon lodged in your skull," well, I know what my decision would be. (-:

[Nia]

Most people don't think about the growth of technological advances. While we enjoy and try to keep up (sometimes cope with) advances of today. The military and scientists are 20 to 50 years ahead of us. Who knows, maybe there is already a method to create atmospheres like earth to sustain human life someplace else.

[Rikou]

I knew the names they used in CB sounded familiar, but I never thought to relate them to actual places. And I also like the idea that in 63 years, somewhere out there Spike will be running around chasing bounties. And a little withered 79 year old me will be chasing after him.

[Czar Gato]

Originally posted by Rikou
And I also like the idea that in 63 years, somewhere out there Spike will be running around chasing bounties. And a little withered 79 year old me will be chasing after him.

Unless, of course, you cyrogenically freeze yourself.

[Zach Logan]

CMON, those are all the moons of the planet JUPITER, the FIFTH Planet from the sun! It was discovered by Galileo in the 15th Century. Gadamede is the BIGGIST moon of Jupiter, Europa is the Ice moon (The moon is made completly of Ice and water, if you saw the episode of Bebop you would know), and Callisto is the Fourth moon from Jupiter. The moon Gadamede is bigger than mars, mercury and pluto. There are around 22 moons circling Jupiter, these are the last 3 of the first four moons of Jupiter.

[Animelurker]

From what I've seen this far, there is a nice little science fiction tradition of using the moons of Jupiter for for story settings. Arthur C. Clarke's 2001-3001 stories were centered upon those moons. It makes relative sense with recent discoveries about these moons. A recent NASA probe took a series of pictures of Jupiter's moons. Photos of Europa showed evidence of ice cracks that had refrozen at the surface. This further suggested the possibility of water deep under the ice caps as well as potential thermal vents. If ia remember right there was also evidence of Europa and Ganymede having a very weakly laced oxygen atmostpheres. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/hst7.html
The moon Io is also of notice for its evidence of volcanic and seismic activity. Hehe..in a nutshell, while immediate future terraforming of such planets isn't exactly within reach, these are moons with more potential then some planets.

[Meson]

Originally posted by Gogeta NSSJ
The moon Gadamede is bigger than mars, mercury and pluto. There are around 22 moons circling Jupiter, these are the last 3 of the first four moons of Jupiter.

First, it is called Ganymede. That's G A N Y M E D E!
Second, it is the second largest moon in the system. Only Saturn's Titan is larger!

[Zach Logan]

Originally posted by Meson
First, it is called Ganymede. That's G A N Y M E D E!
Second, it is the second largest moon in the system. Only Saturn's Titan is larger!

Yea, sorry for the misspelling.

Although I ment Ganymede is the largest moon in the Jupiter Lunar system, Titan is not larger than Ganymede. Titan is one of the largest moons of Saturn, and is the only moon, that we know of, that has an atmosphere, but i am 98% sure it is not the largest.

[Shnay]

Originally posted by Mynd Hed
But if it's "cooperate to get to Mars or die with a tiny chunk of the moon lodged in your skull," well, I know what my decision would be. (-:

Yeah, but with Bebop, it's not just Mars. They've terraformed a few places, and started thriving cities in all of those places, all in a very short time. Even if we had the technology to do that today, it would still take a very long time to do any actual preparation for human life, as well as the time it takes to transport people there, and set up standard buildings of a working society on just a single planet, let alone a few.

That's why I think it's best not to include any specific years in things like this. Or, if you do, make it a good deal into the future. But, hey, whatever.