nit-picking

[rotor911]

At standard temperature and pressure ammonia is a gas

 

So why

Liquid Ammonia 52%

on a world when the pmap on another world with comparable temperature and gravity gives

Liquid Gases 38%

?

 

Just to deprive me of the "familiar terrain" bonus?

[Hughestrog]

Well, ammonia melts at -74oC (~199K) and boils at -30.9oC (~242K), not taking into account dissolved salts, etc.

 

I admit, I haven't looked into the gravity differences and what effect that this would have, but it probably would have some effect.

 

Hot air (as in the ballon) has a density of 0.8 kg/m3 (c.f. air @1.0 Kg/m3), which is sufficient to raise the ballon.

 

OK, yes, you do need alot of hot air. Also the dissolved salts and particulates would also have an effect.

 

Ofcourse, I just take it as fluff, and just look at the temp, grav and tilt values.

 

[Octus Imperium]

Ofcourse, I just take it as fluff, and just look at the temp, grav and tilt values.

 

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Tilt, as in pinball?

 

Axial tilt does not seem to be a major player in my expeience. Grav has an impact, but temp, oceans and atmoshpere are the killers.

 

Octus

[ali-t-akua]

Well, ammonia melts at -74oC (~199K) and boils at -30.9oC (~242K), not taking into account dissolved salts, etc. 

 

I admit, I haven't looked into the gravity differences and what effect that this would have, but it probably would have some effect.

 

Hot air (as in the ballon) has a density of 0.8 kg/m3 (c.f. air @1.0 Kg/m3), which is sufficient to raise the ballon. 

 

OK, yes, you do need alot of hot air.  Also the dissolved salts and particulates would also have an effect. 

 

Ofcourse, I just take it as fluff, and just look at the temp, grav and tilt values.

 

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Gravity would have an indirect effect as it affects atmospheric pressure. Pressure is one of the determinants in freezing and boiling points.

 

By the way, I would not apply standard physics as we understand it to SN:ROTE. I realized that when on my HW, the gas that we normally breathe is a solid at temperatures well above the average temperature of my HW. As my HW has a gravitational field strength well above earth's I can either deduce that my race eats its atmosphere or that the laws of physics dont apply. I determined the latter to be the correct answer.

[T'Lariss]

Well, ammonia melts at -74oC (~199K) and boils at -30.9oC (~242K), not taking into account dissolved salts, etc. 

 

I admit, I haven't looked into the gravity differences and what effect that this would have, but it probably would have some effect.

 

Hot air (as in the ballon) has a density of 0.8 kg/m3 (c.f. air @1.0 Kg/m3), which is sufficient to raise the ballon. 

 

OK, yes, you do need alot of hot air.  Also the dissolved salts and particulates would also have an effect. 

 

Ofcourse, I just take it as fluff, and just look at the temp, grav and tilt values.

 

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Gravity would have an indirect effect as it affects atmospheric pressure. Pressure is one of the determinants in freezing and boiling points.

 

By the way, I would not apply standard physics as we understand it to SN:ROTE. I realized that when on my HW, the gas that we normally breathe is a solid at temperatures well above the average temperature of my HW. As my HW has a gravitational field strength well above earth's I can either deduce that my race eats its atmosphere or that the laws of physics dont apply. I determined the latter to be the correct answer.

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No No No!. the laws of physics apply perfectly. It just that SN;ROTE operates under different physical laws that the world we live in. Here in the SN Universe light has mass and the gravitational constant is different.

[Hughestrog]

[Here in the SN Universe light has mass and the gravitational constant is different.

               

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I like that!

[Lord Xaar]

[Here in the SN Universe light has mass and the gravitational constant is different.

               

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I like that!

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Hydrogen would also need to be much more massive, I think.

 

The one that gets me are the small moons with Hydrogen atmosphere -- small bodies could never hold a substantial amount of Hydrogen. Beings living there have very efficient "lungs"

 

Though I have to say it would be better there than on the Chlorine atmosphere, Liquid Ammonia ocean worlds (or vice versa) we have seen...

 

-LX

[ali-t-akua]

[Here in the SN Universe light has mass and the gravitational constant is different.

               

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I like that!

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Hydrogen would also need to be much more massive, I think.

 

The one that gets me are the small moons with Hydrogen atmosphere -- small bodies could never hold a substantial amount of Hydrogen. Beings living there have very efficient "lungs"

 

Though I have to say it would be better there than on the Chlorine atmosphere, Liquid Ammonia ocean worlds (or vice versa) we have seen...

 

-LX

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I would think a Fluorine or Chlorine atmosphere with a Liquid Hydrogen ocean would be an extremely challenging environment