Re: Images of Europan Life

[Gary McMurtry]

I work with modelers all the time.  They continue to tell me what 
they think I want to hear.  I'm not familiar with Moore's Law, only 
Murphy's.

Welcome back Michael, ;->
Gary

 > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 > IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
 >
 >     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.
 >
 >
 >
http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2003-12-31/europa.jpg<http://www.irtc.org
/ftp/pub/stills/2003-12-31/europa.jpg>
 >
 >
 >


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