Lord Liaden Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 7 hours ago, Cygnia said: What a beautiful, innocent world that was. I'd have loved to hang out there. I still would. aylwin13 and Lee 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 My allergies have been knocking me out for 2 weeks. I don't have to leave the house to know everything is blooming. This is in response to Cygnia's nature pictures. The trees and flowers are lovely nonetheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 Believe me, my own allergies are in agreement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 While spiffy in appearance, I don't think that one is physically possible. A planet young enough (or gravitationally torqued enough) to have large-scale volcanism over a significant chunk of its surface also will have a surface too hot for large-scale liquid water to endure on the surface. And the water surface wouldn't be blue without a substantial atmosphere, and then there ought to be lots and lots more clouds (all the water ought to be in vapor or cloud form, really); in that regard this reminds me of the pre-Apollo speculative paintings of Earth seen from space, where clouds were all but absent. The circular features are clearly intended to be impact craters (in general volcanic craters don't have raised rims, which impact craters always start with), and large-scale volcanism tends to erase (fill in) impact craters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 I was going to suggest things like the Deccan and Sibirian Traps, but those events were much smaller, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 We see surfaces with both impact craters and active cryovolcanism at the same time (on Enceladus in particular: see e.g. here), but with cryovolcanism you don't see the glow of heat in the visible; you see it in the infrared. You do see active volcanism on Io (e.g., here and here), but Io is so active the impact craters get buried very quickly and AFAIK there aren't any impact features of any size identified on Io. But with Io again, though it is "standard" hot volcanism, the glow is still in the infrared, and not hot enough to be perceived in the visible part of the spectrum. The root site for all those linked images is the NASA Planetary Photojournal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 slikmar, aylwin13 and Lawnmower Boy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lord Liaden Posted April 16, 2021 Report Share Posted April 16, 2021 If there were real fairy forests, these would be their trees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 16, 2021 Report Share Posted April 16, 2021 Maybe they're the trees where the parties are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted April 16, 2021 Report Share Posted April 16, 2021 Lawnmower Boy and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 17, 2021 Report Share Posted April 17, 2021 Don't swing a sword with a rat-tail or push tang. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 17, 2021 Report Share Posted April 17, 2021 Does anybody remember grape Tang? We dumb kids used to mix it with milk to make a drink we called a Purple Cow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 17, 2021 Report Share Posted April 17, 2021 Saw it, never tasted it. I have it on good authority that astronauts dislike Tang. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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L. Marcus Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 22 hours ago, Cancer said: I have it on good authority that astronauts dislike Tang. "Happy birthday, you Tang from another world, you!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 tkdguy and Cancer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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L. Marcus Posted April 20, 2021 Report Share Posted April 20, 2021 ... It is so a heart ... tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 20, 2021 Report Share Posted April 20, 2021 Looks more like an ear from that view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 21, 2021 Report Share Posted April 21, 2021 The heart seems to be frozen nitrogen (N2), and it's diametrically opposite Charon (Pluto is tidally locked with one face towards its big moon). Link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted April 21, 2021 Report Share Posted April 21, 2021 On 4/18/2021 at 9:25 AM, Cygnia said: That has to be Ming of Mongo's personal limo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 21, 2021 Report Share Posted April 21, 2021 Here's another one: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 21, 2021 Report Share Posted April 21, 2021 https://balconygardenweb.com/funny-looking-houseplants-that-also-look-weird/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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