Re: Are Humans Gaia's Immune System Against Impacts?

Well said! But a couple of caveats. The UN's most likely scenarios for population growth now predict that the human population will peak in mid-century at less than ten billions - there are plenty of signs that growth is slowing. Where women have the freedom to decide the size of their family,

Review of Mapping Mars

, and is the best popular account of the study of Mars since the Pathfinder landing. Edwin Kite == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/

Re: Europa life papers for europeans

HOWEVER: the analyses of Europan impact-gardening rates conducted since this paper by Chyba and others strongly suggest that the oxidants and organics created in Europa's upper film of ice by Jovian particle radiation ARE mostly buried safely before solar UV light can break them back down

Re: Is it all for nothing?

"JHB" writes I mean, really, what does it cost to send a rocket into space? A few million... certainly not the billions that govts. routinely charge. I suppose that the price is artificially inflated in order to keep it in the realm of govt, not private initiative. "Ed Kite"

Lake Vostok helium

between oil wells, so the evidence is far from conclusive. Edwin Kite == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/

Save Galileo's Eyes petition

Spectrometer and Photopolarimeter/Radiometer for so small a saving shows tunnel vision - even myopia. But I'd just encourage everybody who hasn't already to sign the petition at http://fullspeed.to/io. Edwin Kite == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project

Equinox Express - an idea for ESA's Project X this is not an AO AO

e need at least one outer-system proposal in the running. Comments, critique and constructive abuse all welcome. Edwin Kite Newcastle-Upon-Tyne United Kingdom == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/

Re: NASA Funding

smokescreen about By the way, since Bruce Moomaw et al have planned a low-cost probe, why not take this to the logical extreme and build one for $5 mn? How to do this is layed out in detail in Bill Yenne's "Interplanetary Spacecraft" (Brompton, 1988). Edwin Kite == You are subscribed to

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Re: Europa submersible hypothetical

sibilities. So we should send people trained in the scientific method, with open eyes and ultra-stable psyches. Edwin Kite == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/

Biomimetic proposal

Hope no-one else has spotted this before, as it looks quite workable http://www.niac.usra.edu/studies/ Thomas W. Vaneck: A System of Mesoscale Biomimetic Roboswimmers for Exploration and Search of Life on Europa Edwin Kite == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL

Alternative mission

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