richard8000milesaway

drilling into the surface ice of Europa and controlling the pressures therein are not difficult engineering problems, assuming the tensile strength of the surface ice would support the equipment. in fact, we drill into very high pressures regularly with todays technology at my job: we deploy our BOP/LMRP to the ocean bottom before drilling into the hydrocarbon formations and utilize very high pressure (15,000 psi) liquids to control flow rates.