What kind of umbrella would be required in each world?
Rain on Other Worlds
Submitted 5 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
Earth - any water repellant fabric, probably synthetic
Venus - I’d go with Teflon and extend it to the ground
Titan - SCBA
Neptune and HD 189733b - something hard and durable but lightweight. I’d go with titanium. Chainmaille extending to the ground.
OGLE-TR-56b - tungsten, with a mobile support apparatus.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
okay. so. like… given that “diamond” is a particularly defined cyrstalline form of carbon. Does neptune rain solid diamond? wouldn’t that be more like… ‘hail’?
also. it’s always fun to me reading some older scifi where they colonize venus because it looked like… how we look at mars today.
lugal@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
I read old scifi where Venus was full of rainforests. That’s not how we see Mars today
LordTrychon@startrek.website 5 weeks ago
There was a young adult sci fi series by Asimov called ‘Lucky Starr’ and I remember Venus was Oceanic in that one. Old old series.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Thorry84@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Nah there aren’t any slaves to exploit on other planets, so they aren’t interested
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah, and we’ve never transported slaves to a new world on ships before.
gueybana@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
Me: ‘lmao other planets Get fucking wrecked, suck on deez ive got fucking water’
Debeer: wistful
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Funny thing is that there’d be enough diamonds that even the market crash of hauling a shitload of them back to earth wouldn’t stop you from making absolute bank off selling them.
Probably mostly to scientists and specialist mining companies but hey money’s money.
gencha@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Diamonds aren’t actually rare, and the people who control the market would have you executed.
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Jevon’s principle would save your ass
Asafum@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Not one of these is “men.”
I’m starting to think that song was a lie!
:P
kerrypacker@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It rains men on Uranus.
ChanchoManco@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Got eem!
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Why are scientists absolutely terrible at naming planets?
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They ran out of Greek gods.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
naw. they just stopped naming the children after the first couple rounds of olympians.
why name them when there’s a few hundred a month? breed like rabbits, Olympians. probably out of boredom.
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Then use words, or some blob of syllables of some kind of description.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
It’s like in No Man’s Sky where you start out giving thoughtful names to every planet you come across, but after about twenty systems you’re running into similar world types and color schemes that evoke the same names you’ve already used, so you just stop giving a shit and stick with the names the planets are generated with.
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I guess that’s a good point.
herrvogel@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There are approximately two metric shit tons of planets. I assume scientists have better things to do with their time than to sit around and think of names to give to every single one of those.
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I just assumed all the ones we would actually hear about would get named more regularly. But I guess if they’re talking about a specific one, this would happen. I never really thought about how many must really be out there, but now it seems obvious.
smeg@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
They do have rules, they’re not completely pulling these names out of their arses
Rustywhims@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I wonder what diamonds created in a gas giant atmosphere look like. Neptune has crazy high wind speeds.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
You can’t see dense clouds so it would probably be the same concept considering it’s basically deposition or condensation.
Zoot@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
I want to feel the nice warmth of molten iron on my shoulders. Give me that amazing summer glow only OGLE-TR-56b can provide
Tiltinyall@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
Why wait? There are foundry positions open everywhere.
Whatevster@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
How do you define rain on a gas giant?
lugal@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
On OGLE-TR-56b it only rains ironically