I protest! Snow is perfectly natural. When you drop water particles through the coldness of the uperatomsphere (and be glad you're down here, not up there) it freezes, forming delecate crystal structure and acumulating the way rain would if it couldn't run off in the streets. Basic chemistry.
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.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
momijizukamori
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 10:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 10:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 10:49 pm (UTC)Kathrine Rebecca Pryde.
:D
no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 10:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 10:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 11:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 11:05 pm (UTC)And for future reference, that's "James Arthur Madrox," thanks. :)
(no subject)
From:no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 11:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 10:46 pm (UTC)This is, incidentally, the only planet in the solar system where snowball fights are possible. Aren't we lucky?
no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 10:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 10:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 10:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 11:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-29 01:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-29 06:34 am (UTC)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! :)
no subject
Date: 2003-11-29 11:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-29 04:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:no subject
Date: 2003-11-29 04:13 pm (UTC)Got it.
no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 10:48 pm (UTC)Aren't there ice caps on Mars? Couldn't you have a snowball fight there?
no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 10:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 10:58 pm (UTC)