They made a movie about that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Report

Arthur C Clarke's 2061 (sequel to 2001 and 2010) was also about about a troubled mission that finds life in Europa's oceans. Europa Report sounds like it might have been a little inspired by that novel?

I just watched it. Good movie with an ending you don’t get too often in such movies.

I did kinda hate the talking heads kinda narrative that goes on. I get why they did it but I grew tired of it.

I thought I was the only person who watched that movie!

It was an enjoyable enough movie night! Think I watched it during COVID with some beer and Thai food, and it was satisfying enough to make me want to play some sci-fi games afterward :)

Nothing as thought-provoking as that other space squid movie, Arrival, but it wasn't trying to be. I had a good time.

Last common ancestor was 600m years ago [0], “nearly twice as long as the step … to find the common ancestor of birds and mammals.”

0. https://www.amazon.com/Other-Minds-Octopus-Origins-Conscious...

At that scale having common ancestors effectively does not matter anymore.

It matters! We still have so much in common that's not due to convergent evolution, especially at the cellular level.

All I know is there would be crabs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

Dont forget mercurius. Recent new studies show that the planet is probably from a different further orbit and used to be a much different place. It got promoted as an uninteresting dead planet to a top candidate for (former) life planet.