Oh, please do! I'm not devious enough to properly expand your thesis, but it
sounds intriguing! I can see a good movie out of it, too!
Watch the skies!
Gail Leatherwood
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From: "Guy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 8:30 AM
Subject: RE: Ice
>
> The only thing that will be truly interesting about Europa will be life,
if
> any. The oceans of Europa are low in energy; any life there will have to
be
> enormously energy-efficient. Studying such life could be extremely
> profitable. There could be a cutthroat competition by energy businesses
to
> explore the oceans of Europa; manned submersibles? And in an ocean buried
> beneath ten miles of ice, who would know if your competitor's research
> vessels met with "accidents?" Posit two extraordinary discoveries; first,
> there is life on Europa, and second, that life is either enormously energy
> efficient OR that life has tapped into a hitherto unknown energy source.
In
> either case, there would be money to be made. Assume that the second
> discovery is not generally known. Now you have the stage set for a secret
> battle between a few very powerful, very unscrupulous organizations.
>
> I might just write it myself.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan T. Schomer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 11:12 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Ice
>
>
>
> I'm not sure what sort of plotline you are looking at, but if you are
> looking for an excuse to place permanant citizens on Europa, there is an
> alternative to mining, as there are certianly other profitable enterprises
> out there for consideration. For instance, the same aspect of Europa
> which both intrigues and causes problems for this group is the fact that
> anything interesting is probably buried under about 10 km of ice. That
> same fact could be attractive to fururistic smugglers, perhaps discovering
> a nice pre-dug hole into the underground ocean left behind by early
> ice-pickers ;). Or maybe some eccentric furure economic powerhouse (
> individual or corporate ) has something they don't want to be out in the
> open ( even to far-range off-planet telescopes ), maybe this something
> needs a large body of cold liquid....
>
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > In a message dated 3/28/2001 5:01:01 PM Alaskan Standard Time,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > > If you're really looking for a valuable Europan commodity, consider
the
> > > obvious -- native Europan life, which might very well be biologically
> > unique
> > > enough to have biological and medical uses of its own. (While I can't
> say
> > > too much about this for fear of giving away part of a future piece I'm
> > > working on, one point brought up at the Europa Focus Group I attended
in
>
> > > January was that -- on a world where microbial life may have been
> evolving
> > > for billions of years without ever having access to the huge Earthly
> energy
> > > source of photosynthesis -- Europan germs may have evolved some really
> > > unusual energy-collection mechanisms. Such germs on Earth would have
> been
> > > quickly crowded out and exterminated by competition from our much more
> > > vigorous photosynthesis-fueled organisms.)
> >
> > Let's consider a third alternative: if there is no native Europan life,
> then
> > it's a giant swimming pool with no 'guests'. No reason that you
couldn't
> > then seed it with designer-gene microbes, such as Archaea or whatnot.
> >
> > The inquirious mind then demands: what can Archaea or designer-gene
> > transplants do, that would make them so valuable as to justify an entire
> > colony to support them? I respond: anything you like. Since there
would
> be
> > no predation, you could load up such microbes with all sorts of
redundant
> > characteristics, which would not be a disadvantage to them, but would be
> an
> > advantage to the human microbe farmer.
> >
> > In other words, the solar system's largest petri dish.
> >
> > -- John Harlow Byrne
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