From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:01:05 -0400, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:16:07 -0400, Adam 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Geo wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Adam"  wrote
in message
>>>> news:42b694bc{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>
>>>>> Frozen sea != land.
>>>>
>>>>   Never been to Europa (the moon)?
>>>>  Geo.
>>>>
>>> Oddly no. Somehow it's never there in the windows of the travel
>>> agents....
>>>
>>> Adam
>>   I was just thinking about Europa.  On one of the science mag sites
>> today  is a story about microbes found photosynthesizing the very faint
>> light  from undersea hot water vents which are otherwise quite dark.
>> This in  water up to 300 degrees C.
>>
>
> Impressive. You'd have thought they'd all be chemo-synthetic.
>
> Adam

My reaction exactly, though these critters apparently eat sulfur.

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Gary Wiltshire

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