Why do people feel the need to quote this whenever Europa is mentioned? congratulations, you have good taste in science-fiction, and now it would be nice to move on to the science part and dispense with the fiction bit. Enough with the space hippy act already.
The hive mind disagrees with my sense of humour today. Or maybe it was the ALLCAPS. I would have quoted Tom Swift but since we were talking about why we might not go to Europa (and I don't recall what book it was where he went to the moons of Jupiter)... shrug oh well.
It's closer and we have so much evidence already on other phases of water (vapor and ice). This excites people since it will be the closest source of water outside of Earth and could be the motivation to send Man over there.
Europa is so much further and just to look for the fish would require equipment to penetrate the surface for the off chance there is water underneath.
