Just don't name it Costner!

[ShapeShifter]

Looks like they've found an extrasolar planet with lots of water:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GJ_1214_b

I'll grab my surfboard and sunscreen!

 

[aramis]

Before you do that, realize the estimated water temp is >100°C at surface, and probably has Ice at temps of 100°+ due to massive pressure (Ice VII is superheated ice due to massive pressures; on earth, methane hits that solid-crystaline state at temps occuring on the sea-bottom, above 273°K, when normal solid-crystaline formation takes temps well below that.

 

[fiat_knox]

We could send Costner there ...

 

[Ran Targas]

^ Amen brother, amen.

 

[Blue Ghost]

A water world. Cool.

But what's up with Costner?

 

[ShapeShifter]

Before you do that, realize the estimated water temp is >100°C at surface, and probably has Ice at temps of 100°+ due to massive pressure (Ice VII is superheated ice due to massive pressures; on earth, methane hits that solid-crystaline state at temps occuring on the sea-bottom, above 273°K, when normal solid-crystaline formation takes temps well below that.

I lived in MN for close to a decade. I can take bone-chilling cold and hot, muggy summers.
But, yeah, that "ice vii" creeps me out. Just don't put it in my scotch. o:

 

[robject]

A water world. Cool.

That would be, "A water world. Hot."

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

That would be the Baron laughing...

Wow, this has been most amusing and cool to lurk.

 

[Malinor]

It's a good time to be a Traveller GM with all these new worlds popping up on the sensor arrays. From these super-Earths to the super-Jovians whizzing around their primary in 3-day orbits, there's plenty of inspiration out there for when the brain begins to flag.

 

[aramis]

I lived in MN for close to a decade. I can take bone-chilling cold and hot, muggy summers.
But, yeah, that "ice vii" creeps me out. Just don't put it in my scotch. o:

It'd explode to steam (28:1 expansion ratio) the moment you opened the pressure container....

 

[shadowcat20]

So if a Starship or shuttle landed on it, what would happen when it fired take off jets??? Interesting possabilities for a game.:devil: You got some ice on the ship and when it gets to highte altitude that ice in the airlock, landing bay, assorted nooks and crannies expands.

 

[cajon5]

I read it is closer to the size of Neptune than Earth. Does anyone know what the estimated surface gravity is?

 

[aramis]

So if a Starship or shuttle landed on it, what would happen when it fired take off jets??? Interesting possabilities for a game.:devil: You got some ice on the ship and when it gets to highte altitude that ice in the airlock, landing bay, assorted nooks and crannies expands.

That "Ice" in the airlock would turn to steam as you were cycling the airlock. No big deal, other than the pressure isn't going down until you've pumped it out, too. That "ice" is 150°C, so odds are, you wouldn't be going out in it anyway, unless you have no choice.

 

[BlackBat242]

A water world. Cool.

But what's up with Costner?

Waterworld is a 1995 post-apocalyptic science fiction film. The film was directed by Kevin Reynolds and co-written by Peter Rader and David Twohy. It is based on Rader's original 1986 screenplay and stars Kevin Costner, who also produced it. It was distributed by Universal Pictures.
.....
The setting of the film is the distant future, although no exact date is given. (Suggested as 2500.) The polar ice caps have completely melted, and the sea level has risen many thousands of feet, covering all the land.
.....
The group indeed finds Dryland, which turns out to be a portion of Mt. Everest, which is still above sea level.

Yeah... global warming causes the entire Earth, except for the tip of Mt Everest, to be submerged by water.

 

[abomination]

Yeah... global warming causes the entire Earth, except for the tip of Mt Everest, to be submerged by water.

Whereas if the polar ice caps melted we'd actually have more land. OK, so we'd lose Holland, Bangladesh & East Anglia. (if the first two are like East Anglia it's no great loss IMO). But we'd gain a who new habitable continent to fight over.

 

[Malinor]

Ahem! Some of us come from East Anglia, Abomination. It's one of the major food-producing areas of Britain. Lose that and it will have an affect. Lose London, however, and who'd notice?

 

[Blue Ghost]

Yeah... global warming causes the entire Earth, except for the tip of Mt Everest, to be submerged by water.

I know about Costner's effort in Water World, but he himself is not a bad actor. He's just done a couple of bad projects.

 

[fiat_knox]

A couple?

After the adaptation of Brin's The Postman, I didn't think anyone would want to touch him to wash him.