Timeline for How would a microscopic organism create kilometre long fibre optic cables from ice
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| Aug 25, 2017 at 7:25 | answer | added | Maja Piechotka | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 6:49 | comment | added | Zaibis | Just to be sure: We are talking about the moon, not the continent, right? | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 0:54 | comment | added | Beta | If I went to all the trouble of getting a probe into the sea, and then found out that it didn't have visible-light cameras and lamps, the engineer responsible for that design would have a lot of explaining to do. This is a plot hole. I suggest that the probes be so equipped, but that the native biota be invisible at first because the lamps are 1000 times brighter (according to human habit) and come on automatically with the cameras. | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 20:36 | comment | added | Daniel Masterson | That's actually pretty similar to the premise I'm going for. They send probes down only equipped with IR camera's, looking for the heat sources of camera. It's only when some ice miners above the habitat stumble upon a clump of these fibres that they're traced back to the organisms emitting light in a very human spectrum. | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 19:46 | comment | added | tophyr | An interesting twist to your story could come from the very-likely fact that, without any prior indication that there'd be light underneath the ice, the human equipment for boring and submarine colonization probably wouldn't have any windows. It would be entirely plausible that the colonists could finish building and be in a completely settled routine - potentially for years - under the ice, before accidentally discovering that there's light around them. | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 16:40 | answer | added | SFWriter | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 16:13 | answer | added | mephisto | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 15:07 | history | edited | Daniel Masterson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2017 at 14:13 | answer | added | EOlsvik | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 13:55 | vote | accept | Daniel Masterson | ||
| Aug 24, 2017 at 13:42 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 21 | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 13:40 | comment | added | Jan Ivan | With enough time, you can achieve anything… and could it be just fibers made from dead bodies that was firstly evolutionary error, but then other organisms take advantage of that… and after millions of years some other organism started to create this things because first organism started to became almost extinct, and light was… necessary, so only those who started creating fibers/ or started to "farm" first organism, so it will grow and die more and create more fibers? | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 13:39 | history | edited | Daniel Masterson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2017 at 13:33 | history | edited | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2017 at 13:29 | history | asked | Daniel Masterson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |