Re: starship-design: Europa

[kgstar@most.fw.hac.com (Kelly Starks x7066 MS 10-39)]

At 4:25 PM 8/14/96, Philip Bakelaar wrote:
>At 02:28 PM 8/14/96 -0500, Kelly Starks x7066 MS 10-39 wrote:
>>At 12:02 PM 8/14/96, Steve VanDevender wrote:
>>>Kelly Starks writes:
>>> > In case anyone missed it, NASA anounced yesterday that Galaleo photos of
>>> > Europa show what looks like signed of a under ice liquid water ocean.
>>>I.E.
>>> > a life zone.  All in all their having a good month!
>>> >
>>> > <Damn forgot to forward the anouncement here to forward out.>
>>>
>>>Soon the alien starships will enter the Solar System and remove all
>>>doubt :-)  We could then pick their brains for design concepts.
>>
>>If they're big disks, hovering over our major cities, I'm going to be
>>pissed!  ;)
>
>Remember guys, all you need is a Macintosh, and we can all save the world!

Was there ever a doubt?

>(Let's just hope The Brain is a faithful IBM user!) ;)




>>> > Kelly
>>> >
>>> > P.S.
>>> > Am I the only one who wasn't particularly suprized or impresed by the
>>> > Marian fossil discovery?
>>>
>>>I actually wasn't that shocked by the concept; my reaction to
>>>"Extraterrestrial life found" would be "Well, duh."  Considering the
>>>tenuous nature of their evidence, I'm waiting to hear about further
>>>results and analysis of that meteorite to see if anything more
>>>conclusive develops.
>>
>>Agreed.  It looks likely.  By then it always did.
>
>I wonder if their announcement was a little premature? (Surely they
>didn't have the Martian single-cell action figures made yet?) :)
>But seriously... ???

They did too!, and they're doing great in the ameoba-are-us stores!  8)

>>It might at least get NASA to consider the possibility of active life forms
>>in their designs.  (Admin desision was that we proved nothing alive is at
>>Mars.  And people wounder why D.C. shouldn't be trusted with hard
>>questions.)
>
>They really said that, huh? Amazing...
>
>Ben

The policy was (and probably still is) that the question of current life on
Mars is closed.  Thats why they only talk about discovering fossil life.

Kelly


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