Time to speak of many... Re: Gas Skimmers

2 posts ยท Dec 17 1998 to Dec 19 1998

From: Robertson, Brendan <Brendan.Robertson@d...>

Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:36:45 +1100

Subject: RE: Time to speak of many... Re: Gas Skimmers

Had an unusual thought... Since we know so little about Sa'vasku, they could
be gas giant dwellers. Maybe they have a similar relationship in a gas giant
to the worms of Arrakis. Instead of spice, they spit out pure H2.

I'm not sure of the chemistry involved, but hydrogen heavy gas giants could be
few & far between.

I couldn't find the actual atmosphere mix, but Jupiter is primarily a
Helium/Hydrogen mix.
"Jupiter is believed to have three cloud layers in its atmosphere. At
the top are clouds of ammonia ice; beneath that ammonium-hydrogen
sulfide crystals; and in the lowest layer, water ice and perhaps liquid
water." - from the Galileo home page.

'Neath Southern Skies
http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/
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From: Thomas Anderson <thomas.anderson@u...>

Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 02:43:00 +0000 (GMT)

Subject: RE: Time to speak of many... Re: Gas Skimmers

> On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Robertson, Brendan wrote:

aha! speculation on SV biology. mr robertson, you just became dr
robinson of the Berkely Xenobiological Institute - i will file this in
my embryonic sv bio archives...

Tom