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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

ten year sentence part 6

ten year sentence part 6

fiction
edward w pritchard

There is no confirmed water yet on Io. Io is the trial run for later projects on Europa which is going to be more expensive by a multiple of 100 to excavate and lay the pipes and set the reservoir. The work we do on Io is training for the Europa project, training in the similar weird relationship that the moons of Jupiter have with the gravity of the gigantic planet, which causes the thermal tides and volcanic activity. Our team has been approached to go to Europa. I will go of course for the more money as will Poj. Lalie might go, depending on the project description, and Shuim says he will not go to Europa under no circumstances. Shuim says Europa is more unstable than Io, he expects any projects there to be blown apart by volcanic activity. However, as Poj says, the futures markets on earth value the potential for water on Europa at 30 times what it is on Io, and that's where the money is going. Unless I want to go back to excavating rocks again at the home base here, I am going to Europa.
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