22 December 2008 - Enceladus

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Pollution must be OK, if even advanced space aliens don’t worry about it. The alien base hidden inside Enceladus is powered by a giant five gigawatt fusion reactor (unless they have something even more advanced), but they’re being so sloppy with their waste heat that they polluted the whole Saturn system and gave themselves away. Either that, or humans are so harmless that they don’t care.

clue:

Based on reports of the unexplained high heat flux of Enceladus related to the south-pole jets. Surely the explanation should be obvious!

give me a clue so sweet and true

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