Further reading:

Wikipedia: 2007–2008 world food price crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_world_food_price_crisis

-United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
http://www.righttofood.org/
-EBIO
http://www.ebio.org/home.php

EU: An EU Strategy for Biofuels
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/biomass/biofuel/index_en.htm
EU rethinks biofuels guidelines (14 January 2008)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7186380.stm

BBC: Biofuels 'crime against humanity' (27 October 2007)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7065061.stm
At the end this article refers to
IMF: Biofuel Demand Pushes Up Food Prices
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2007/RES1017A.htm

I think the point is basically, when you imagine the size of the universe it would be foolish to assume that Earth is the only planet that contains life, or even very evolved life. The principle of life is evolution in that this is the way life changes and adapts and with that idea in our heads, we can easily imagine creatures being produced on planets even in our own solar system. Some of our deep-sea fish could easily live in the ice of Europa, for instance.

If I pretend I just like adventure games these would be my favourites:

Grim Fandango
Monkey Island (any one of them)
Day of the Tentacle
Sam & Max (try the new ones as well)

A lot of LucasArts games. Well, 100% is a lot.

And while I have your attention (hopefully), try Europa Universalis 3! Great game.

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS -- EXCEPT EUROPA.

ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.

Well take Mars or any of the planets for that example, they also rotate on their own but their shifting axis tilt changes mean that a sustainable atmosphere never forms. This is actually touched upon on the second part.

With regards to Europa, Yes I agree the same can be said only here we have Jupiter acting like a large magnet that created a probable ocean in Europa. But we have to realize that is due to the unique arrangement there, we do not know if it has actually given to life development. Though the prospect for it is there. How complex? We will have to see once the first probes start landing and penetrating the ice layer.

And hasn't anyone noticed that I linked Part 2 in the description? Next time i'll put it in a comment I use.

Farhad how about a moon like Europa around Jupiter? It has tides thanks to Jupiter, the tides are probably responsible for a probable ocean under the ice.

Lyrics of the song by "The Drinkers"

Sviče zora u subotu
Dan doleče iz daljine
Svi junaci ovog kraja
Čekaju da sunce svine
Čekaju da sunce svine

Joj ojoj…..

Za Beograd (za Beograd)
firmom Krstič (firmom Krstič)
Upravo se narod sprema
Sve razloge za put ima
Samo valjda sreče nema joj

Majko mila (majko mila)
Šta se zbiva (šta se zbiva)
Tužna li se pesma peva
Smrt je došla u pohode
Ovde više nema mira joj

Nesrečnik sam od malena
Od sve muke pesme pevam
Voleo bih majko mila
Da se ovo samo sneva
Da se ovo samo sneva

Joj ojoj….

Spremao je (dugo švaba)
Ovaj dugi (strašni let)
Ko nekako da uništi
I izgradi novi svet (i izgradi novi svet) joj

Švaba jaše (švaba jaše)
Crnog konja (crnog konja)
Potresla se sva Europa
Naša vojska napad sprema
Spremila je malog topa jooj

Drinker jaše pune flaše

From his site:

At dawn on July 13, 2006, I started work on an intervention in the Max Feffer tunnel joining Av. Europa and Cidade Jardim. The intervention was through a process of subtraction, scraping off layers of soot from vehicle exhaust built up on tunnel walls to produce images of human skulls.

Police checked us out several times during the early morning when I was working on "cleaning" the tunnel. However, as expected, they could not stop me drawing skulls in the tunnel. "Cleaning" is not a crime. What is a crime is the environmental damage caused by unashamed pollution. And, as also expected, the State did not let the matter rest there. There was only one way to prevent me "cleaning" my way, and that was for them to clean up too. And they did!

The intervention had reached 160 meters when São Paulo municipality started its own first cleaning operation there. However, contrary to my expectation, they did not clean the whole tunnel. What would really have prevented me continuing would have been their removing all the soot, which was the raw material used for the work. The State's intention was to just remove the intervention. They annulled the message by creating a huge clean area and leaving the rest of the sooty tunnel as it was. So this was another crime: censorship! lol...

But since the raw material was still there, I came back with more provocation on August 13th. After working for several nights, the intervention had reached around 120 meters, and the municipal team, complete with traffic department staff and the police turned up to clean the whole tunnel.

After that, every tunnel in the city was cleaned. After finishing work on Cidade Jardim, Rebouças was next, followed a number of other tunnels in the city. But they will all be dirty again in less than 4 months. It would be better to stop polluting instead of cleaning up.

Alexandre Orion
visual artist

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS -- EXCEPT EUROPA.

ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.