On OGLE-TR-56b it only rains ironically
What kind of umbrella would be required in each world?
Earth - any water repellant fabric, probably synthetic
Venus - I’d go with Teflon and extend it to the ground
Titan - SCBA
Neptune and HD 189733b - something hard and durable but lightweight. I’d go with titanium. Chainmaille extending to the ground.
OGLE-TR-56b - tungsten, with a mobile support apparatus.
Earth needs a bit more than fabric sometimes. Not only can that water fall in the solid phase, occasionally it moves really fast!
A SCBA isn’t an umbrella. The rain is just more conductive atmosphere though, so you’d need a higher setting on your personal heater.
Neptune probably doesn’t have ground, and HD 189733b definitely doesn’t. Anything capable of surviving the pressure at that depth would probably be fine, although we don’t know how large the diamonds would be or how sharp the flakes that form are. Diamond Shuriken Rain sounds like an awesome song though.
OGLE-TR-56b also probably doesn’t have any ground, but depending on how high you’re flying you might want something non-stick. Tons of iron welding itself to you is possibly the worst case of wing-icing you can find in nature.
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.
I read old scifi where Venus was full of rainforests. That’s not how we see 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.
All we could see were clouds implying rain (forests), or even more (and only) water.
Nah there aren’t any slaves to exploit on other planets, so they aren’t interested
Not one of these is “men.”
I’m starting to think that song was a lie!
:P
