Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin 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 Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.4592 Posted: Thu Sep 13 15:32:48 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 02:19:22 EDT References: <480@utastro.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 9 > 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... :-)