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...matter how thick the ice is, the waters beneath it must still be liquid, thanks to tidal heating. This is good news for biology. Scientists don't pretend to know how warm a Europan ocean might be, but even waters that are just a degree above freezing would feel downright balmy to organisms that evolved...
...Galileo's ends, other ships could be on the way to join them in the outer solar system. NASA is tentatively planning several new Europa probes, including one that will photograph its surface and take radar soundings beneath its crust. If the radar picks up the telltale echoes of liquid water, another spacecraft would be sent to land on Europa and release a heated probe designed to melt through the ice layer and look for signs of life in the seas below...
...treat communities of people like two liquids in a chemistry experiment where if you mix liquid A and liquid B they will average out and stay the same," Thompson says...
...Arizona for two months. During the 1970s, the cult suffered from a dramatic attrition rate, until Applewhite instituted what Balch describes as an "intense regimentation." Do had recruits follow detailed schedules--waking for prayer at precise times, taking vitamins at, say, 7:22 p.m., consuming yeast rolls and liquid protein--and had them do drills, mental and physical, to prepare the flock for outer space. According to a man named Michael, who was with the cult from 1975 to 1988, recruits experimented with their sleeping patterns and their diets, trying to break down their bodies so they would be "under...
...novel's most shocking--and most effective--move is to follow the story of Evita's corpse and its improbable travels. After Evita dies of cancer at age 33, her husband Juan Peron has her embalmed so that she will forever look like "a liquid sun." Even after Peron's regime topples and he retreats into exile, Evita remains a national obsession. The Argentinean people will not let her go, insisting that "she will come back, and she will be millions...