Good point. I was assuming you'd need very
fine-grained discrete-event simulation of the interactions and evolution of
individual organisms, and that there are no models for how terrestrial life
evolved (if indeed terrestrial life originated on Earth). Both may be bad
assumptions.
Why not post this question to the bioastro
list?
-michael turner
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Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 7:58
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Subject: Re: Images of Europan
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Why wait 30 years? Couldn't we do some computer evolution modeling
of possible Europan life now, however basic and crude it may be?
Larry
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Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 3:32
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Subject: Re: Images of Europan
Life
> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --- 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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