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Humans Colonize Europa

Date: 2039 A.D.
Author: Human Explorer From Earth

Dear Journal,
     We have arrived on Europa, one of Jupiter's four large moons. The trip had taken nearly two years on our fusion ramjet, which uses hydrogen to propel itself through space. Solareye had entirely mapped our planet and calculated it to be suitable for habitation. Europa has ice that can be transformed into water and a internal heat source that can be transported to the surface to warm our settlements. 
     The main reason for the settlement of Europa was not for habitation however. Humans could better live on Earth where there was plenty of water, greenery, and most importantly, advanced forms of life. Even Mars and Saturn's moon Titan both had atmospheres and had been terraformed into places looking like Earth. All two hundred of us had come with our families to extract Jupiter's atmosphere for fuels to be transported back to Earth. Jupiter was composed of ninety percent hydrogen and ten percent helium. Those gases could provide the fuel for daily uses and for the many spacecraft leaving Earth for Mars or Titan.
     Speaking of Titan, it has now the highest per capita income in the entire solar system! That is because of the great terraformation the Worldformers did there. That world is also naturally abundant in valuable minerals and methane, which provided the fuel to do the job. Titan now has the best education system in the galaxy. I heard that their seventeen year-olds teach at Earth's universities. Hopefully, Europa will soon rival them in such prosperity. 
     We are waiting for a faster vessel to travel within the galaxy. Two years is a considerably long time, although the average human life span is now ninety years old, thanks to cyberorgics, which replaces aged hearts and other organs with machine replacements.
     They say that a quantum machine is due to be made in twenty-five years. It will be able to transport huge vessels to star systems millions of light years away in just a few seconds. If this machine will really be created, it awes me to think what places or creatures we shall find.