In a message dated 12/8/2000 5:28:26 PM Alaskan Standard Time,
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<< >This has a strange relevance to Europa, however. If life exists in the
>Europan ocean, it's likely to be living in a low energy environment where
>competition is unlikely to be widespread. Unlike most
Bruce Moomaw wrote:
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> It should be pointed out, however, that multicellular organisms never
> evolved on Earth at all until the evolution of photosynthesis provided them
> with a much more efficient energy supply -- so it still seems overwhelmingly
> likely that all Europan life will be single
Bruce Moomaw wrote:
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> What in the world is a weta?
Answered elsewhere; but a really big NZ bug. Can't kill you, though... the weta
lives in NZ not Australia
(Private joke)
> More generally, in today's lower-oxygen environment, big bugs must be much
> more sluggish, which puts them at
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From: Robert Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Friday, December 08, 2000 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: On The Rise of Oxygen...
>This has a strange relevance to Europa, however. If life exist
Jayme Blaschke wrote:
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> >>>What in the world is a weta?
>
> Director Peter Jackson's Wellington-based SFX company. :-)
>
> Jayme Lynn Blaschke
No great surprise... Jacko's a Kiwi (New Zealander); with a taste for
cinema almost as ugly as the weta itself.
The weta is a very large arthropod
>>>What in the world is a weta?
Director Peter Jackson's Wellington-based SFX company. :-)
Jayme Lynn Blaschke
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>the reverse of this syndrome; & showed what happen when large
>critters got trapped on small islands.
Wrangell Island with its dwarf mammoths is another good example of this.
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>The most likely scenario for the first true interstellar probes is that they will
>hiberante during much of the journey & recharge using local solar power when they
>arrive at their destination. Much simpler.
Greg Bear uses this concept in his novel _Queen of Angels_. Quite impressive, if ver
In a message dated 12/8/2000 8:27:57 AM Alaskan Standard Time,
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<< Alien Voyagers could be zipping past the solar system as we write. The
fact
we have a hard time finding objects (NEO's) 1km in diameter a few million
miles of earth would indicate that locating a 3-4
In a message dated 12/8/2000 4:06:42 AM Alaskan Standard Time,
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<< Come on over to Jason Perry's "Jupiter List" and "ISSDG" discussion groups
and you can see Clements and I tearing at each other and questioning each
other's ancestry on a regular basis. It's wonderful
The thing is, if we're destroyed tomorrow, the likliehood of an alien race discovering
the Voyagers, Pioneers, Mariners or whatever is on par with picking out a specific
grain of sand on Earth, Mars, Venus and the Moon combined... and I suspect I'm being
quite generous with the odds. Unless so
Alien Voyagers could be zipping past the solar system as we write. The fact
we have a hard time finding objects (NEO's) 1km in diameter a few million
miles of earth would indicate that locating a 3-4 meter silent spacecraft
missing the solar system by billions of miles would indicate that its
un
Thank you very much!
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> Bruce Moomaw
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> From: Evan Jame
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From: Evan James Dembskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Friday, December 08, 2000 5:27 AM
Subject: RE: On The Rise of Oxygen...
>Bruce,
>
>
>> Come on over to Jason Perry's "Jupiter List" and "ISSDG" discussion
groups
>> and you
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From: Robert Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Friday, December 08, 2000 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: On The Rise of Oxygen...
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>Bruce Moomaw wrote:
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>> While I didn't know that the huge
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Date: Friday, December 08, 2000 2:49 AM
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>I gotta say, Robert, reading your posts brought grim glee to my day. We
>missed you, our giant gadf
I gotta say, Robert, reading your posts brought grim glee to my day. We
missed you, our giant gadfly!
-- JHB
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Bruce Moomaw wrote:
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> While I didn't know that the huge dragonflies held on into the early
> Mesozoic, Clements' explanation has a big problem: why didn't the equally
> huge crawling bugs of the Carboniferous Era hold on? They didn't have the
> clumsy-flight disadvantage of those huge dragonf
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Date: Thursday, December 07, 2000 11:54 PM
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>> f) here's a somewh
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