xp_olaris | (no subject)

I couldn't have put it better myself.

This is, incidentally, the only planet in the solar system where snowball fights are possible. Aren't we lucky?

Well, couldn't you have amonium snowball fights on Europa (presuming you could breath, and the lack of gravity didn't bug you too much)? Or was it Titan? It's been too long since we've gone over any real astronomy.

It's a matter of the state boundary between liquid and solid, actually; if you had a blast furnace, were fireproof, and had a very strong grip, you might conceivably be able to make plutonium snowballs, but I'd be careful of reaching critical mass. I had a link to an essay on the subject somewhere.

Sure, but there's already amonium rain/snow on Titan... or was it Dione? Europa's the one with the h2o water ocean and the frozen 'crust' isn't it? So I guess it would be the best place for an extraplanetary snowball fight, assuming the crust didn't crack and drop you into the ocean.

Possibly, if conditions were right. Why don't we make a project out of it? The article I'm thinking of is here; use any other resources you wish, and determine . . . oh, let's say the top five potential extraterrestrial snowball fight locations?

Sure, sounds interesting. May I posit imported snowballs in adition to native grown non-h2o snowballs? And I assume you want a bibliography of whatever sources I use?

If you want to import terrestrial snowballs, you're going to have to design a method for keeping them spherical under liftoff pressures. Wouldn't do to arrive on Europa with a ton or so of compressed snow all over the rear bulkheads of your spaceship, now would it?

Annotated bibliography, yes please. And provenance for whatever you pull off the Internet as opposed to raiding the library or the journal databases.

Have fun! :)

Or you could just take your own personal ice machine along, and not worry about making the snowballs until you get there.

Well that solves that problem. *grin* Can I Dr. McCoy?

As long as you take Bobby into consideration when prioritizing your sites, I see no reason why not. Remember that he won't be making any snow without water vapor, or at least water.

Also remember that if you overcomplicate your travel plans, you run the risk of your teacher appending a cargo manifest to the requirements of the assignment. Learning opportunities simply abound. ;)

I'd assumed you were going to want the cargo manifest anyway. You said I'd have to design appropriate transport methods...

Are you going to want projected travel routes too? Because given I've got to keep Bobby comfortable I'm going to need the shortest routes available, and it does rather make going too far problematic. Wouldn't do to get there and be too old to play.

Indeed. I suppose you could plan a generational voyage, and arrive at your destination just in time for your children to have a snowball fight, but unless I'm very much mistaken Bobby isn't the one you'd want along on that particular trip. ;)

Include as much detail in your report as you feel moved to; my extra credit schema are as always up to the task. I will warn you, however, that getting so wrapped up in this assignment that you forget to actually go play in the snow while we have it is likely to have a deleterious effect on your grade.

And now I believe I'm late for a hurling. See you outside?

Heh. Not hardly, he's not. Sorry Bobby.

And no worries. Jamie would have some choice words for me if I failed to go get snow dumped on me, I'm sure. I'll see you out there.

That's fine, I understand. Nothing personal, but you wouldn't be my first choice, either, great as you are, Kitty.

Just so's we're clear on that. *grin*

Hmmm... point.

Got it.

Quite quite lucky. None of it good.

Aren't there ice caps on Mars? Couldn't you have a snowball fight there?

Not without a heated industrial press, I'm afraid, which rather puts a damper on the proceedings. It's too cold on Mars.

IT'S TOO COLD HERE!!!