Moore's Law:
Hans Moravec thinks that computers will have the data holding capacity of
the human brain probably by the time that Icepick is swimming in Europa's
ocean:
I have a feeling that a number of technical problems we worry about with
Icepick now will be solved by the time we are ready to send the probe to the
Jupiter system.
Larry
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Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:04
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Subject: Re: Images of Europan Life
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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