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Damn. If there was a planet that rained oil, I’m sure the US would have taken it over by now.
Not a planet, but titan has hydrocarbons.
Give it some time and maybe space fracking will be profitable enough to make Titan worth going after. Set up a couple liquifying stations in orbit and ship it back home.
I’ve played too many games to know that space fracking is a very, very, very bad idea. If games have told me anything it’s that demons and monsters and cronenberg type things all live inside planets and moons and asteroids.
As a wise engineer once said, you can solve those problems with gun. And if that doesn’t solve it, just use more gun.
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Or swarms of robots in Dyson Sphere Program
Needs too much setup
The whole point of the oil is that a lot of it is all hydrocarboned together into these long chains and loops that bust open real energetically. It’s big and energy dense so it’s hard to produce naturally without a lot of existing chemical energy to store and pack together and then condense over geologic time. I don’t think it’s gonna come together for you in the clouds whatever you do to your atmosphere.
Titan has lakes of liquid hydrocarbons though. Simple stuff like ethane and propane. If we could get the propane cars going mainstream, we could try to talk them into going out there and scooping it up for them; I think there’s a fuck of a lot of it.
I think I’d prefer leaving Titan’s hydrocarbons on Titan, considering Earth’s relationship with them so far.
Burning tons of hydrocarbons in our atmoshpere so we can leave our atmosphere, go to another planet, collect more hydrocarbons, then bring them back to earth and burn them again, all while we could be harnessing the sun, wind, and water as energy. If thats gonna be our attitude maybe we deserve to boil alive in our warming climate.
You could bring them to Mars and burn them there. Thicken up the atmosphere a bit, maybe add some water.
How the hell do you get iron rain. Is there iron perspiration and iron clouds? Wiki says nothing. Super interesting though, I wonder how it would work.
Iron melts. You didn’t question the diamonds?!?
Diamond scarcity is propaganda controlled by zales to monopolize the diamond market and up charge more than they’re actually worth. They’re everywhere, it literally rains diamonds on Neptune. Nothing to see here.
Natural diamonds are moderately rare, although not as rare as the companies like to suggest. Especially if you want high quality natural diamonds that actually look good.
Apparently mining companies are a bit disinterested in diamonds really. They are quite an ordeal to deal with and to effectively mine. They tend to be bound up in a lot of random junk material, mostly low-grade iron and rock, that you don’t actually want, and don’t really have much use for, and the signal to noise ratio can be quite high.
Although a lot less interesting it’s probably more profitable for a mining company to simply come across a large stockpile of copper, then a possible diamond source. Unless it is unusually pure and high quality.
Ah, so the diamond rain on Neptune is artificial!
The source for that seems to be this. This is what it says:
Intriguingly, the temperature of OGLE-TR-56b’s upper atmosphere is theoretically just right to form clouds, not of water vapor, but of iron atoms. Earlier this year, astronomers reported evidence for iron rain on brown dwarfs. However, such storms only occur over a short portion of a brown dwarf’s lifetime, while the newly discovered 4 billion year-old OGLE-TR-56b should still be experiencing this exotic weather, thanks to strong heating from the nearby star.
Local Kay’s Jeweler ad: “We’ve got 20% off Neptunian rings and pendants just in time for Valentine’s Day.”
5/6 of those will get you banned from the strip club.
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🎶 You’ll never never know how close you came /
🎶 Until you fall in love with the diamond rainWould you kindly keep this reposted drivel where it belongs?
glass and diamonds are solids; precipitation but not rain
Depends on the temperature, and the pressure.
Under enough pressure you can actually get liquid diamond.
But is it in the tetrahedral geometry that characterizes diamond? Cause otherwise it’s just liquid carbon.
It’s a solid in the same way sand is. It’s small enough to act as a liquid.
