Re: Journey to the centre of Earth?

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 01:22:04 MDT

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    On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 04:20:00PM -0700, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
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    > Journey to centre of Earth proposed
    > 14 May 2003, New Scientist:
    > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993730

    A version of the paper with more annotations can be found at
    http://www.gps.caltech.edu/faculty/stevenson/coremission/index.html

    A fun idea, very much in the style of "The Inventions of
    Daedalus", but not very practical. The way to go is of course to
    drill down using a diamondoid self-replicating structure with
    active cooling powered by the thermal differential! 

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