AJ’s Black Smoker
Abstract Natural selection What’s a black smoker? Metabolic model Run the applet

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Abstract

Natural selection

What’s a black smoker?

Metabolic model

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Page contents

Running the applet

Notes

Last update

The author’s blog

Content/design AJM.

Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Valid CSS!

Running the applet

To start AJ’s Black Smoker, click on the logo below1.

There is help for every step—click the help button on any screen if you have questions (the help button looks like this: help button).

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If you can read this, it may be either (1) that your browser hasn’t found a way to run the applet or (2) it has blocked it. Possibly, you don’t have a JVM. Usually, this means you just must install the Java plug-in; click here to install it, or here for more information on Java.

On IE, it may also just be that you have to ’unblock the content’ by clicking on the yellow shield (if one has appeared) at the top of the page.

The background photo in the main applet is of a deep sea vent photographed by the Alvin submersible. Credit: The US National Science Foundation, Dr. Lauren Mullineaux and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, National Deep Submergence Facility.

Download size ~114Kb (code) + ~76Kb (images)

Bug reports, suggestions, et al go to ajmilne@well.com.

Last update

The code was last updated 22 November 2006; this was the addition of the substrate flow window.

Notes

1 You may have to click twice in some modern browsers. If you see your browser’s symbol for a missing plug-in, you may need to download Sun’s Java plugin to run the applet.

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