They did this in Antarctica
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Melting Europa
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This is interesting because our lecturer at McGill just finished telling us about how they did this in Antarctica 10 years ago. The success of that mission in proving that life exists under 3 metre ice sheets (on lakes) in the McMurdo Dry Valleys is one of the reasons why this mission to Europa is planned. Great pictures of my lecturer (Andersen) in Antarctica are here. The video footage is again even more impressive - whole unadulterated sea beds of stromatolites and other cyanobacteria like nowhere else on earth.
Actually, the most important thing to remember is that caffeine is not a pain-killer, but it is a vasopressor. The headaches you feel related to caffeine are not the same class as the headaches you feel under stress for example - the regular type of headache is caused by the tightening of the band of muscles around the head, whereas the headaches you experience are related to dilation of the blood vessels in the brain. Since caffeine constricts the blood vessels, your body become acclimatized to being at a level of normal constriction with that amount of caffeine - when it is removed, your blood vessels will dilate hugely. Generic painkillers will not work for this headache - ask any migraine sufferer. You need to get some migraine medication - but watch out, because of the way migraines occur (initial constriction followed by very large dilation) you need to avoid the preventative drugs designed to stop the initial constriction, and get the drugs that relieve the pain of an already in progress headache. The class you want are known as serotonin agonists, rather than the antagonists.
Mechanization puts more out of work... Does no one think of the poor astronauts who will lose their jobs to the machines? This could have many far reaching consequences... The astronauts will unionize, and during strikes the American public will be denied much needed weightlessness footage! Stop these "ro-bot" workers before it is too late!
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This is interesting because our lecturer at McGill just finished telling us about how they did this in Antarctica 10 years ago. The success of that mission in proving that life exists under 3 metre ice sheets (on lakes) in the McMurdo Dry Valleys is one of the reasons why this mission to Europa is planned. Great pictures of my lecturer (Andersen) in Antarctica are here. The video footage is again even more impressive - whole unadulterated sea beds of stromatolites and other cyanobacteria like nowhere else on earth.
Actually, the most important thing to remember is that caffeine is not a pain-killer, but it is a vasopressor. The headaches you feel related to caffeine are not the same class as the headaches you feel under stress for example - the regular type of headache is caused by the tightening of the band of muscles around the head, whereas the headaches you experience are related to dilation of the blood vessels in the brain. Since caffeine constricts the blood vessels, your body become acclimatized to being at a level of normal constriction with that amount of caffeine - when it is removed, your blood vessels will dilate hugely. Generic painkillers will not work for this headache - ask any migraine sufferer. You need to get some migraine medication - but watch out, because of the way migraines occur (initial constriction followed by very large dilation) you need to avoid the preventative drugs designed to stop the initial constriction, and get the drugs that relieve the pain of an already in progress headache. The class you want are known as serotonin agonists, rather than the antagonists.
Mechanization puts more out of work... Does no one think of the poor astronauts who will lose their jobs to the machines? This could have many far reaching consequences... The astronauts will unionize, and during strikes the American public will be denied much needed weightlessness footage! Stop these "ro-bot" workers before it is too late!