http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Radiation_Eating_Fungi_Could_Change_The_Energy_Balance_On_Earth_And_Beyond_999.html "...researchers at the Albert Einstein...
Cl: As if AMII was not strange enough for confort... ... From: "James Sterrett" <James.Sterrett@...> To: <ten_worlds_development@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
Well, the notion had been challenged in the past - now the biological reactors can return in full glory, instead of merely harvesting the heat! :) ... -- ...
Next step - the fungi-in-space return to the planetary ring! :) ... -- James Sterrett james.sterrett@... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Cl: Now why is it I've flashbacks about the Fungi from Yuggoth, and need to resist the urge of screaming "TEKE-LI!! TEKE-LI!!" at the top of my lungs, hoping...
While the potential for danger is by no means diminished, I doubt the fungi will create the right circumstances to make a nuclear explosion. Spitting...
The fungi are written up as concentrating the material for their own purposes, and as extruding "control rods" of carbon fiber into the mass. The worry is that...
... How big are these fungi? I wouldn't be too worried about chain reactions until you're talking 50 gallon drums. After that I might start working out the...
Anaerobic respiration came first, releasing free oxygen and allowing aerobic respiration. Oxygen is a highly reactive and corrosive element. As it is possible...
Phil Eklund's mechanism for getting spores into the rings had the spores riding mind and mangetic field lines, both of which apparently happen on Earth with...
Because the piping tekeli-li whislte would come from a shoggoth (At the Mountains of Madness), not from the fungi from Yuggoth. :) ... -- James Sterrett ...
... I don't buy miniature nuclear explosions, but I could easily see naturally occuring meltdowns. The fungi concentrate radioactives, which tends to limit...
And I'd like to take advantage of her forced captivity on airplanes to have her write up a set of biosphere notes. She did a bang up job on Schwarzvaal. ...
Advocates (and others), please take a look at the worlds summaries at http://home.earthlink.net/~cce-2/universe2.html This is a candidate page for the Ad Astra...
I need summaries of the outcome of the Saladin War (main treaty points, political shifts, maybe even really, really major economic effects, maybe gross...
... Altiplano's information isn't very accurate, unless the factbook information is way out of date. Some point of note: Calling it the 'commercial hub' is...
Ethan, I think that overall the page looks real good, I am not really a fan of the two-column look for web pages though. My nit picks are as follows: 1) What...
... I'm not looking for opinions on layout now. Only planetary descriptions. ... No freakin' idea. 2) What are the FN, Caliphate, and SSA? Hmm. There's a...
Ethan wrote ... All you need is a one sentence or paragraph to describe each that gives the abbreviation. I have not looked at the setting book for a while, so...
The Ten Worlds date was 2272 before the last interruption. I'm using the date 2270 in my military background articles. FN: Federated Nations SSA: Sovereign...
Ethan, I'll put this in my overlong to-do list. What are you looking for? It's best you point out what you cannot glean from the "Timeline to the Saladin War" ...
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