Re: Europa for naval architects

2001-02-20 Thread Bruce Moomaw
-Original Message- From: John Macsween [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 12:36 AM Subject: RE: OK, OK, OK, Enough! Hi All, I've just joined this list and have been following the Jupiter/Lake Vostock line for a while. I

Re: OK, OK, OK, Enough!

2001-02-20 Thread Deanna
Thank you, Bruce! I'm new to this list, too and was beginning to wonder if it would be useful for the information I was looking for. Regarding the nutrient balance in the top few meters of ice--do you have a URL or a journal reference with information on that? I'd love to do some more in-depth

Re: OK, OK, OK, Enough!

2001-02-20 Thread Larry Klaes
I'm curious - what is being mined on Europa in your SF story? Larry At 10:16 AM 02/20/2001 -0800, Gail Roberta wrote: Well, I guess that's the price of getting to the show after the curtain goes up. Sorry if I sounded like such a dunce, but I really did just get caught up in what's really

New Group of Microorganisms Discovered in the Open Sea

2001-02-20 Thread Larry Klaes
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:32:52 -0500 (EST) From: NSF Custom News Service [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CNS Subscribers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [pr0105] - News Releases The following document (pr0105) is now available from the NSF Online Document System Title: New Group of Microorganisms

Re: OK, OK, OK, Enough!

2001-02-20 Thread Gail Roberta
Naturally I can't give away too much in the hopes that my first story will be published, but try this: Suppose there was another planet in another star system that needed...water. (Frank Herbert's Dune?) Europa has water under its ice mantle. Wouldn't "mining," refining, storing, and

Icepick Graphics

2001-02-20 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 2/20/2001 4:47:59 AM Alaskan Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well then it's time to stop chewin' and time to start doin'! Ages ago I asked someone, anyone to start drawing some realistic graphics of what Icepick might look like as the first steps towards

Re: New Group of Microorganisms Discovered in the Open Sea

2001-02-20 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 2/20/2001 12:52:47 PM Alaskan Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The discovery of these numbers of a group of microorganisms living in a previously unsampled area "points out the basic ignorance we have of the planet we live on," maintains Karl. This research,