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.
I wonder what diamonds created in a gas giant atmosphere look like. Neptune has crazy high wind speeds.
Nah there aren’t any slaves to exploit on other planets, so they aren’t interested
On OGLE-TR-56b it only rains ironically
Why are scientists absolutely terrible at naming planets?
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.
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.
They do have rules, they’re not completely pulling these names out of their arses
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.
