Chance For Life On Io

On 6/12/2010 1:58 AM, Damon Hill wrote:
rival for the hellhole that is Venus, planet of hotties...

Thank God the Venusian Firewomen have the sort of firepower handy in the
flamethrower-like breath that they have with a hangover to drive the
Ymirs away.

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:


I'm getting so sick and tired of this "Life Is Everywhere" routine.

If there is life anywhere else in the solar system, I think that Europa
is the only really good candidate for having it, and I'd give that
around 30% odds...at best.

I have seen compelling evidence for life on Earth. But I am still
searching for signs of intelligence. So far I have noticed a guy
called Henry Spencer, but I can't be sure he is from Earth :-)


Alain Fournier

Pat Flannery wrote:
Unlike "The Wrath Of Khan" it's really not that hard to find a
lifeless world...outside of the Star Trek universe.

This is one thing I liked about Battlestar Galactica. Life of any form was
pretty damn rare.



Pat

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Greg Moore
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Pat Flannery wrote:
On 6/12/2010 4:29 AM, Pat Flannery wrote:

Anyway, that's only the beginning:
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/qu...thy_parker.htm
Just ****ing kneel...you can't ever beat her. :-D :-D :-D

BTW, the "Horticulture" incident was based on a challenge she was
issued at a party regarding her ability to come up with a pun inside
of ten minutes of being issued it based on a single word.
Inside of ten minutes later she came back with the pun:
"You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think."
The person issuing the challenge apparently was struck completely
speechless by her reply, as the entire party erupted in laughter.
Another goody was when she was informed that Calvin Coolidge had died;
her reply then was: "How can they tell?". :-D

I'm sure you're familiar with the story of the dinner party where a woman
said to Calvin Coolidge, "My husband bet me I couldn't get you to say three
words to me."

He looks at her and replies, "You lose."



Pat

--
Greg Moore
Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC.

Pat Flannery wrote:
Just ****ing kneel...you can't ever beat her. :-D :-D :-D

And now that she's dead,
nor can I meet her...

Dave

On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:37:37 -0800, Pat Flannery
wrote:
I'll leave it to this newsgroup's reader's imagination as to how
Kirk
would have dealt with running into the mass-murdering Crystalline
Entity, but I'll bet when the Enterprise got home it would be clean
out
of photon torpedoes, and there would be a good-sized chunk of burnt
crystal super-epoxied onto its bow. :-D

We come in peace.
Shoot to kill. Shoot to kill, men...

--
Done By Droid.

Something for your amusement:

http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=1...95a242&w=900.0

On 6/26/2010 4:13 PM, wrote:
Something for your amusement:

http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=1...95a242&w=900.0

In Sci-Fi movies, there is actually something that lives off of eating
sulfur - The "Ymir" from "20 Million Miles To Earth":
http://theseventhvoyage.com/ymir.htm
However, that creature came from Venus, not Io.
If you ran into a intelligent creature from Io, it would probably be a
lot more like a Star Trek "Tholian" than a "Ymir":
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tholian
Still, it is a lot of fun to consider what form of life could arise in
an environment of a moon of Jupiter..whose surface consists of mostly
molten sulfur, with violent changes in temperature as its volcanoes
changed in eruptive positions.

Pat