That could be really cool. Bunch of ice sculptures here and there, and this one big cylindrical chunk of ice with the cryobot happily chewing its way down the inside. I bet there's somewhere you could order a big block of ice, or get it from the same people who make their sculptures.
Robert Crawley Elite Precision Fabricators, Inc. Programming (936) 449-6823 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-europa@;klx.com]On Behalf Of Bruce Moomaw Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 1:23 PM To: Europa Icepick Subject: Re: Test beds of ice ----- Original Message ----- From: "Schmidt Mickey Civ 50 ES/CC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 7:23 AM Subject: Test beds of ice > How much ice depth are we looking at for a test? I see from some > discussions we are talking about a model around 8" in diameter. There must > still be block ice producers in some large city that make large chunks of > ice (for ice sculptures, if nothing else). Perhaps one of them could be > approached to construct a large column of ice in a freezer for test > purposes. They would get some notoriety, a tax break, and make a > contribution to science. If our model were not too long, as it melts through > a first block of ice a second block could be put in place beneath it as it > melted its way through each block. This would give the effect of a very > large ice depth depending upon how long everyone was willing to participate. > Benefits of this idea: - access to power, convenient to transportation, a > laboratory setting, and a lot less cost involved than trekking to the wilds > of Washington or Alaska. Yes, by gum! If we're going to do this at all, this is definitely the way it should be done. It allows detailed observations, recovery of the Cryobot (impossible otherwise), and the ability to run different types of tests on it repeatedly using different techniques and design modifications. It would, in fact, allow the unification of my proposal for specific tests on specific problems, with everyone else's desire for something non-esoteric and dramatic to show the public. == 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/
