I noticed that there was a date set for actually putting the Cryobot on Europa, 2020. In my experience, group projects are rarely completed unless a specific completion date is set for each phase of the work. Since I'm very new to this group, I may have missed the date that was set for the completion of the Cryobot's working model. Can anyone tell me what that date is?
Also, I have only had time to go through a small amount of the information that I have been receiving. But from what I have read so far, it seems that there are multiple applications for the Cryobot, scientific, commercial and military. Are we open to soliciting support from all of these industries? Testing Location - Isn't there a place in Alaska or Canada where the ice on the lake freezes so thick that trucks use it as a highway to deliver to deliver supplies to remote towns? I was thinking that a place like this would be a good initial testing ground for the Cryobot. The pictures that I have seen show a very hostile and extreme cold weather environment. Working model design development - There are quite a few concepts that have to be proved first before a full working model can be assembled. Maybe we could produce several models that would prove each specific concept using off the shelf technology. Doing this would allow groups of people to work toward a smaller yet very specific goal. For example, one group could prove the Cyobot's ability to maneuver underwater. No special location is required, it could be completed in somebody's local lake. The delivery package could be developed by another group and the ability to maneuver through ice can be developed by yet another group. It would be nice if we could have access to a central database so that each group could share information. At some point the designs for each concept will need to integrated into one package, which will result in the working model. It will be an ugly machine, but functional. Once all this happens we can pick a place for testing of the entire system. Scott. -----Original Message----- From: Robert J. Bradbury [mailto:bradbury@;aeiveos.com] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Some more thoughts on Proteus/IcePIC On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Shouldn't we include in our goals a cryobot and hydrobot that could test for > life in a place like Lake Vostok? The folks from NSF/NASA are working on this. Its been an ongoing effort for a decade or more. Serious scientists will scream very loudly if a bunch of amateurs crack the Lake Vostok seal. Its considered a pristine sealed "time capsule" environment and a lot of work has/is been/being done to determine how to open it without contaminating it. I believe the past ice-core efforts have drilled to within a few hundred meters of its surface but have explicitly stopped to avoid contamination. (That is even if you could get a permit to operate a machine over Lake Vostok. I believe its in the Russian section of Antarctica and so you would have to get approval from their officials. Thats about as probable as a snowstorm in hell.) Robert == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/ == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
