From: m (mt_2@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Dec 23 1999 - 00:21:56 MST
--- "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org> wrote:
> I must have missed their Sasquatch article.
>
>
> (tiny :))
>
> At 22:51 1999/12/22 -0500, you wrote:
> >The first issue of National Geographic Magazine for
> the year 2000
> >contains an article by Joel Achenbach (author of
> Captured by Aliens)
> >titled "Life Beyond Earth".
> >
> >You can read more about it here:
> >
>
>http://www.nationalgeographic.com/media/ngm/0001/hilights.html#b
Actually (at least in the web excerpts)it's a quite
good, balanced intoductory article. A good summary of
the issues. It even discusses nanoprobes!
The only issue I might bring up is the description of
the possible Europan ecology as "cold". I understand
there could well be hot vents resulting from the same
tidal heating that would keep the ocean liquid in the
first place.
BTW, for some planned Europa missions, check:
http://www2.astrobiology.com/astro/europa/index.html#missions
Mike
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