RE: Alternative Energy Sources Could Support Life on Europa

2001-04-04 Thread TAYLOR, MICHAEL
Subject: Re: Alternative Energy Sources Could Support Life on Europa -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 6:16 PM Subject: Re: Alternative Energy Sources Could Support Life on Europa In a message

Re: Alternative Energy Sources Could Support Life on Europa

2001-04-04 Thread William P. Niedringhaus
Evolving photosynthesis/discarding 02 seems (to a non-chemist like me anyway) unlikely, a little like trying to get rich by discarding gold. You are right it's a key question for Europa. Assuming simple life evolves frequently in the universe, I wonder where on the scale from oddity to

Re: Alternative Energy Sources Could Support Life on Europa

2001-04-04 Thread Bruce Moomaw
-Original Message- From: TAYLOR, MICHAEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 8:46 AM Subject: RE: Alternative Energy Sources Could Support Life on Europa To me, the real question regarding alternative energy production systems

Re: Alternative Energy Sources Could Support Life on Europa

2001-04-04 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 4/4/2001 7:35:24 AM Alaskan Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To me, the real question regarding alternative energy production systems is whether any of them might produce a molecule of oxygen as waste, as photosynthesis does. You get free O2 in the water, you've got

Re: Alternative Energy Sources Could Support Life on Europa

2001-04-03 Thread Bruce Moomaw
-Original Message- From: Alex R. Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:49 AM Subject: [jupiter_list] Alternative Energy Sources Could Support Life on Europa In the FORUM section of the March 27, 2001 issue of Eos, Trans

Re: Alternative Energy Sources Could Support Life on Europa

2001-04-03 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 4/3/2001 3:52:01 PM Alaskan Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Grrr. This is exactly that revelation I had saved for my coming SpaceDaily article on the possibility that Europan organisms -- without evolutionary competition from the far more vigorous photsynthetic

Re: Alternative Energy Sources Could Support Life on Europa

2001-04-03 Thread Bruce Moomaw
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 6:16 PM Subject: Re: Alternative Energy Sources Could Support Life on Europa In a message dated 4/3/2001 3:52:01 PM Alaskan Daylight Time, [EMAIL