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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: thermodynamics again
Message-ID: <4592@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 13-Sep-84 15:32:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 13 15:32:48 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 02:19:22 EDT
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Organization: Ballistics Research Lab
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>  The biological communities that surround undersea vents
>  are using the energy from the core of the Earth as a source and
>  the surrounding sea as a waste heat sink.  Since the core of
>  the Earth is kept hot by radioactive decay this makes them the
>  only examples of terrestrial communities entirely supported by nuclear
>  fission :-).

(There's also the members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and
their families... :-)