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To: petuniasevan
How would you like to spend a few years working in the sulfur mines on Io? The pay would have to be stupendous, but I'll tell you, few of the miners would actually bring home much money. Most of it would be gone sometime between Friday payday and early Saturday morning. How is that possible, one might ask. That's how it has always been, that's how it will always be, comes the answer.
4 posted on 03/27/2002 1:46:15 PM PST by RightWhale
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To: RightWhale
LOL! Seriously, I remember reading a sci-fi short story which dealt with working on Io and dealing with just such perennial human foibles.

Problem is, the radiation flux from Jupiter is intense at Io's distance. Don't think anyone will remain too healthy for too long bathing their lungs in sulfur and their bodies in hard radiation.

6 posted on 03/27/2002 1:51:38 PM PST by petuniasevan
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