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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • lugal@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    On OGLE-TR-56b it only rains ironically

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What kind of umbrella would be required in each world?

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    • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Earth needs a bit more than fabric sometimes. Not only can that water fall in the solid phase, occasionally it moves really fast!

        A SCBA isn’t an umbrella. The rain is just more conductive atmosphere though, so you’d need a higher setting on your personal heater.

        Neptune probably doesn’t have ground, and HD 189733b definitely doesn’t. Anything capable of surviving the pressure at that depth would probably be fine, although we don’t know how large the diamonds would be or how sharp the flakes that form are. Diamond Shuriken Rain sounds like an awesome song though.

        OGLE-TR-56b also probably doesn’t have any ground, but depending on how high you’re flying you might want something non-stick. Tons of iron welding itself to you is possibly the worst case of wing-icing you can find in nature.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • lugal@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I read old scifi where Venus was full of rainforests. That’s not how we see Mars today

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      • LordTrychon@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Debeers

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    • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah there aren’t any slaves to exploit on other planets, so they aren’t interested

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      • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, and we’ve never transported slaves to a new world on ships before.

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    • gueybana@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Me: ‘lmao other planets Get fucking wrecked, suck on deez ive got fucking water’

      Debeer: wistful

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  • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not one of these is “men.”

    I’m starting to think that song was a lie!

    :P

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    • kerrypacker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It rains men on Uranus.

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      • ChanchoManco@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Got eem!

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      • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • gencha@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Diamonds aren’t actually rare, and the people who control the market would have you executed.

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    • SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Jevon’s principle would save your ass

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  • Zoot@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • Tiltinyall@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why wait? There are foundry positions open everywhere.

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  • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why are scientists absolutely terrible at naming planets?

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They ran out of Greek gods.

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Then use words, or some blob of syllables of some kind of description.

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    • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I guess that’s a good point.

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    • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They do have rules, they’re not completely pulling these names out of their arses

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  • Rustywhims@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wonder what diamonds created in a gas giant atmosphere look like. Neptune has crazy high wind speeds.

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    • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can’t see dense clouds so it would probably be the same concept considering it’s basically deposition or condensation.

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      • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh that’s condensanding

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  • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How do you define rain on a gas giant?

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The same way you define rain in a cloud, when it condenses and falls. Of course diamonds would be hail, not rain.

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      • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “condensed carbon”. It might work…

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  • Whatevster@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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