AstronautGeologist

@Arran No shame the Moon is awesome. I'm studying to be a "munar" geologist irl

I don't know but I was looking at Eve in the tracking station so...

What are the white patches of ground that can be seen from orbit? Does anyone know?

Omgosh that is epic (I'm buying a Conrad pic & autograph cause Aldrins are too expensive xD

I have a question. Are the hitchhiker cans docked to the panels or did you land them already attached like that?

Base? that's more like a colony

OMGosh that's AWESOME!

Mine is Eve, because it is interesting from a chemical point of view. Also, it is supposed to be a Venus analogue, but it is nothing like Venus. (my second is Kerbin, of course. That's where all the Kerbals live.)

I bought 2 games off cd ever: Civ 4 and Battle... Battlefield... Battlefield idon'tknowthefreakingnumberokaydon'tjudgeme.

There's... just.... Idon'teven... it.... I....

When I get to Mars I'll tell you. Edit: Have you ever read Ben Bova's Mars? The astronauts all get their appendixes removed before the mission for that reason.

MechJeb .20 sucks. So I downloaded the .19 version at the store so I could get the .19 MechJeb.

What are the possible abiotic sources for Iodine, and could such abiotic sources result in significant amounts of Iodine in a planet's atmosphere? What are the possible biotic sources for Iodine, and could such biotic sources result in significant amounts of Iodine in a planet's atmosphere?

Disturbing isn't it. But the devs do plan on implementing realistic geological features in the future.

Originally posted by paleorob Exactly right.

Originally posted by Brotoro at http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/26296 Interesting!

What are the properties of this "blutonium"? I looked it up and I'm not getting anything.

Question: doesn't iodine need starch to become a purple gas? Short Answer: Iodine - gaseous, is purple. Starch makes it purpleier, purpler; more purple. Long Answer: Starch is not required. (what's your science teacher smokin'? lol, aren't science teachers supposed to know what they're talking about?) Iodine is a gray/black solid which, when heated, sublimates; that is, it goes directly to the gas/vapor phase without becoming a liquid in between. Iodine gas/vapor is purple and so is iodine when dissolved in a non-polar solvent like carbon tetrachloride or benzene. The purple color indicates the presence of iodine and starch is not required. The reaction of iodine with starch is different; it reacts with starch to form a blue-black complex compound that isn't the same color as the purple gas/vapor.

@paleorob what do you mean?

@dharak1 I'll look into that.

The heavier elements differentiate towards the core of a planet hence most of the iodine would be in the core, just as most of the iron, nickel, gold, uranium, thorium, etc. Perhaps Eve got torn up by something leaving only the core. Of course, it wouldn't just be iodine, it would also be iron, nickel, gold, uranium, thorium etc. Iodine is also produced by neutron bombardment of Xenon which in itself is a byproduct of Uranium decay so perhaps it's the leftover of a giant nuclear reactor, note a planetary core and mantle is a giant thorium/uranium fission reactor. There's also neutrons from cosmic ray spallation where cosmic rays hit something sending neutrons flying. It would take tens of billions of years for the thorium and uranium of a leftover planetary core to decay into xenon and get bombarded into iodine so such a planet could not be part of a star's planetary system, stars don't live that long, it would have to be the leftover core of a rogue planet, perhaps the leftover core of a brown dwarf star. Short of a passing neutron star or black hole, I can't imagine what could strip the rest of such a planet away.

@tek why not? You need to get a new gf dude. (lol jk)

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Not really, because most other 14 year olds I know are too obsessed with video games, masturbation, and music videos. Apparently we like Kate Upton's "hot bod" and Black Ops II more than exploring new worlds and going where no man has gone before.