Water pipes?

I think we'll need all trillions for the cable on our space elevator.

fwiw I think copper also does a number on slugs.

great story - thanks for that

yeah, diehard golfers have this in little pouches that they put in their pockets to use as handwarmers.

every place we've been able to look on earth, life was the rule, not the exception.

thank you, that is when I went off the rails and thought "I guess I don't remember any math anymore, cause that did not make any sense..."

yes, you are correct. Iceland gets the bulk of its power from the hot geology beneath the island.

I seem to remember that in the movie poster for the original Alien movie, that the ground shown in the poster is a brownie.

Please 'splain - what's a peach tree?

I guess now is as good a time as ever to fess up then.

I had them too. And there was a swimming pool down there near the bowling alley.

Not what it seems. Clearly they were making sweet love, soon to spawn our nightmare Sharktopus..

no, I think he's best known as That kid from Corvette Summer.

there was an extended discussion of these ideas here, not long ago, and many of the questions you raise were kicked around then. This line of questions did not resound with me because implicit in them is the question of whether or not the computer version would be able to simulate the bio version. I guess I don't find…

exactly what killed them? high waters drowning them?

We could probably head this whole thing off, and solve our energy problem, if we could just figure out how to tap all the heat festering underground there.

Wasn't there a ninth embarrassing Cap moment, when he became really bloated and over-muscled?

Giant exploding star, I'd like you to meet giant exploding volcano.

The problem with the copyright law in the digital ages is they are not balanced. The media companies want wide latitude to impose penalties with no conviction, or neutral assessment of the situation. Yet there is no consequence for mis-applying remedies as in this case.