Done and done.
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Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: Images of Europan Life
Good point. I was assuming you'd need very
fine-grained discrete-event simulation of the interactions and evolution of
individual organisms, and that there are no models for how terrestrial life
evolved (if indeed terrestrial life originated on Earth). Both may be
bad assumptions.
Why not post this question to the bioastro
list?
-michael turner
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 7:58
PM
Subject: Re: Images of Europan
Life
Why wait 30 years? Couldn't we do some computer evolution
modeling of possible Europan life now, however basic and crude it may
be?
Larry
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Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 3:32
PM
Subject: Re: Images of Europan
Life
> I can buy parallel evolution producing
similar
> shapes of creatures. But the plants being
green
> strikes me as a particularly Earth-born conceit.
>
Even if the ice wasn't kilometers thick, I doubt
> enough sunlight
reaches Europa to make photo-
> synthesis via chlorophyll a useful
process...
Hey, it's only a movie ;-) A more
plausible
picture wouldn't be much more exciting, at
least
pictorially, than ocean-floor photos
on Earth.
It might be 30
years before a probe shines
light on anything down there. If
Moore's Law
holds for most of those years, we might see
computer
systems powerful enough to start
simulating possible origins and
evolution
of life on Europa. That effort might produce
some
very interesting images indeed.
-michael turner
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> --- LARRY KLAES
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> > IMAGE
DESCRIPTION:
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> > In the
future, life will
> > be discovered on Jupiter's moon
Europa.
> >
> > After a trip through interplanetary
space,
> > a delivery probe (upper left) will
> >
penetrate Europa's icy surface and release
> > a camera probe
(center) into the subsurface
> > ocean.
> >
> >
Heat, generated within the moon from Jupiter's
> > gravitational
forces, allows life to flourish.
> >
> > Jellyfish-like
creatures float within a
> > a current of small bubbles.
Two plant-like
> > stalks can be seen in the middle-left.
A
> > shelled creature sits on the sea floor
> > on the
bottom left.
> >
> > The delivery and camera probes are
based on
> > actual NASA designs.
> >
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> >
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