tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13439734.post2870918420816990150..comments2023-09-03T06:41:01.993-07:00Comments on BLOG OF SCIENCE!: More on Europa's OceanDan Levitishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13581109290998307861noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13439734.post-60413205796697371612007-12-18T14:11:00.000-08:002007-12-18T14:11:00.000-08:00Seems pretty farfetched, simply because I can't th...Seems pretty farfetched, simply because I can't think of any plant or animal on earth that captures tidal, current, or wind energy. Life in/around geothermal vents seems much more likely, and in fact Europa seems to provide an interesting test case on how inevitability life is, given conditions that could theoretically support it.<BR/><BR/>Now that I look at it, it seems that the water pressure at the ice/water boundary layer would be extremely high - on the order of 100 atmospheres. This makes the sorts of "moon pool" colonies imagined <A HREF="http://asi.org/adb/06/09/03/02/110/europa2-wkshp.html" REL="nofollow">by the Artemis society</A> pretty unlikely, as I'm pretty sure nobody's lived at more than 30 atmospheres or so for any extended period.Tarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14368810359650066790noreply@blogger.com