Ice Feeld

posted on November 6th, 2005, 4:40 pm

That is Yacuzzas asteroid field you need special permission to use it in a mod (he has changed the rule that is with the mod saying any one can use it.) Besides those aren'y even icy asteriods. Twilight has these asteroids (with permission) some brownish asteroids and some icy asteroids as well as some other asteroid based stuff.

posted on November 7th, 2005, 3:10 pm

Well as far as the physics side of things go, a commets trail is mostly ice and dirt so I assume that Ice fields are viable (Its Startrek anyway we have giant crystaline entities so why not ice)

posted on November 8th, 2005, 12:48 am

Cystaline objects aren't ice. a Comet's tail is not ice chunks flying off the rock it is, as Jan said, Gaseous, The idea is functional but it would have to be rocks within gasous oxygen and hydrogen bound together by the gravity of a larger planetoid, such as the "E class planetoid" in the game. Gas expands to fill any container, therefor if there was no gravity to keep the nebula together the nebula would quickly dissapate...Since when has startrek be true to physics? Transporters...not to mention how they messed with space-time...As for crystiline entities...The repitition of the same atoms makes a substance "Crystaline" Minerals are cystaline, Ice is by defintion cystalline but there are forms of crystalline ice, Hexagonal and Cubic...I believe ice in space would be amorphous which can be caused by by depositing water vapor onto a substrate at still lower temperatures.

[Anonymous]

posted on November 8th, 2005, 2:49 am

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Since when has startrek be true to physics?

AMEN!!!

posted on November 8th, 2005, 4:03 pm

Are you sure commets tails dont have ice in them?

I thought they did but if they dont who am I to argue you seem to know what your talking about.

posted on November 8th, 2005, 8:57 pm

Yes, ice does not fly off the end of a comet, there is ice, but as I said, amorphous ice but not solidic, gasous, that's my opinion anyway...I'm sure you could search to find ice in space somewhere, from what I know of physics, It's....out of range...if you know what I mean.

posted on November 8th, 2005, 10:41 pm

by out of range do you mean for us to be able to see ice it would have to be close enough to the solar system that the ice would be melted by the sun? or are you using a philosophical device?
Geez, I sound like a know it all; don’t i? Well, I’m 83% geek according to that geek test, so why am I surprised? mg:

posted on November 9th, 2005, 12:10 am

Only 83?



My score

posted on November 9th, 2005, 12:10 am

Well yes and no, out of range for us to predict I think without actually finding it with hubble(it is le not el correct?) then of course out of my range, I know a lot about physics but not enough to accurately predict it to be frozen or amorphous crystilline gas in space, I'm no astrophysiscist. If you feel the need to prove me wrong (not that you were trying) I'd welcome you to look it up, i'd be interested in finding out if my speculation and theory was correct. Although...considering ice is translucent...it'd be hard to see on the black of space

Geek test? please direct me, I'd be about 100% and be too shy to post my results but uh...lol (me? shy? nah...)

posted on November 9th, 2005, 11:33 pm

here's the link to the tread, and in that you'll find a link to the test.

Geek Test Thread

posted on November 12th, 2005, 2:02 am

The link on that thread you pointed me too doesn't work, several SQL errors...shame.

[Casper]

posted on November 12th, 2005, 8:12 am

Last edited by Casper on November 12th, 2005, 8:15 am, edited 1 time in total.

worked fine for me. i tested it after i posted it.


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now it doesn't work, wonder what's going on

posted on November 15th, 2005, 12:28 am

It works for me...

posted on November 15th, 2005, 5:22 am

seems to be working now. maybe the site was down

posted on November 15th, 2005, 11:28 pm

It's always possible...