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.
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.
Yep. I found it fascinating. I think the version I had probably had a forward from Asimov talking about how we were wrong about guesses about Venus.
I don't remember much else from the story except this, and the big reveal of the whodunnit. (Or more accurately the how).
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.
Diamonds aren't actually rare, and the people who control the market would have you executed.
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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
I wonder what diamonds created in a gas giant atmosphere look like. Neptune has crazy high wind speeds.
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.
I know that Olympians fuck like rabbits, but they only meet up once every four years. Can't be that massive of a population increase.
You really think Zeus is gonna have that long of a dry spell? Never mind Aphrodite or Dionysus?
I bet Hera is a closet freak, too. (Zeus just doesn't like the whips.)
From what I can tell, they've all had a several thousand years dry spell. Haven't seen those guys around in a long time.
Assuming they started off as two of them 2000 years ago and Fibonacci was right about rabbit breeding habits (and Olympians mature in 4 years time and don't menopause before the age of 2000). We'd have 139423224561697880139724382870407283950070256587697307264108962948325571622863290691557658876222521294125 (500th element of the Fibonacci sequence (2000 years / 4 years = 500 Olympian breeding seasons). There'd be plenty of them to name planets after.
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.
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.
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.
The same way you define rain in a cloud, when it condenses and falls. Of course diamonds would be hail, not rain.
