The Minmus Thread.

[Scorpi15]

Does the flour in the ice reduce it's melting temperature? Like adding woodchips?

[Rage097]

Does the flour in the ice reduce it's melting temperature? Like adding woodchips?

I think you mean raise its melting temperture.

I'm not sure though about the temperture changing at all though.

[sickboy]

So minmus is bread?

[Rage097]

So minmus is bread?

Nope. there's not any yeast to make it bread.

[sickboy]

Nope. there's not any yeast to make it bread.

Well, it's still quite closer to bread than i'd expect a celestial body to ever be

[WillHop]

So minmus is bread?

This would definitely add weight to the 'Kerbal Buffet' theory

[Superfluous J]

Kerbal Buffet

Is he the one who wrote Kerbalitaville?

[Rage097]

Is he the one who wrote Kerbalitaville?

Lookin' for his lost minmus and bop?

[Depth]

So minmus is bread?

Flatbread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatbr%C3%B8d

Maybe the Viking gods used to snack on Minmus.

[Captain Sierra]

Cleverbot gave me about ten zillion answers (before it started trolling me). I don't trust it.

[Rage097]

Cleverbot gave me about ten zillion answers (before it started trolling me). I don't trust it.

Please, do tell.

*popcorn*

[Deadpangod3]

Cleverbot gave me about ten zillion answers (before it started trolling me). I don't trust it.

What is this "cleverbot" you speak of?

[Captain Sierra]

cleeverbot.com. Be careful, it likes to derail the conversation.

[sal_vager]

cleeverbot.com. Be careful, it likes to derail the conversation.

Much like discussing cleverbot can do

And I thought this was a thread about Minmus...

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

this is why I want 0.22, by observing 'soil' samples in kerbins atmosphere/ closer to kerbol, we might be able to figure out what it's made of.

I use the assumption it's mint ice cream

EDIT: cleverbot says I already know the answer.

[lajoswinkler]

Try iGod. He's just beating around the bushes.

[Deadpangod3]

Don't let this thread go off topic guys,

[Depth]

The safety glass theory is getting more credibility.

So, what else in astronomy generates blue-green crystals?

[Jodo42]

Hey, it's this thread again. Considering I'm just coming back from Minmus this very moment I should know this, but are surface samples from the "lakes" and the hills any different?

[Depth]

Probably not, it's all the same biome

[[email protected]]

Its probably a silicate.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=silicate&FORM=HDRSC2#view=detail&id=885C12BD274D26B3E73A1C9E94963D81F31022EF&selectedIndex=4

[DAL59]

 

[Gargamel]

I'm impressed at the memory @DAL59.

[KerikBalm]

Minmus is made of fantasy and gameplay considerations.

They aren't frozen lakes- its the same distance from the sun as Kerbin and Mun, the only place you could have ice is the poles, if there was a spot shielded from sunlight, there's not (minmus has no craters). Any ice on the surface would have sublimated away long ago.

They aren't salt-flats like on Earth, because those are formed from evaporating lakes. Minmus would not hold on to an atmosphere for long after formation at all. There'd be no time for lakes to flatten terrain like that and leave nearly perfectly flat terrain. 

Minmus has no craters! if we found this in real life, we'd say it means the surface is "young" and recently formed by continual activity (like Europa's crust, for example, or the nitrogen flows on Pluto). There's no plausible mechanism for this (especially given how far out it is, itsnot going to have a lot of tidal heating, and that wouldn't explain the formation of crater free mountain ranges and plateaus)

Then we also have to wonder... how did it even form? If Mun in an analogue for our moon, then it likely formed from a "giant impact" scenario too. This would not explain Minmus, which is much farther out and seems to be of a very weird composition.

 

There is simply no way to explain minmus that would stand up to scrutiny.

Its there for gameplay, as an easy destination to reach without worrying about transfer windows, easy terrain to land on with the benefit of low gravity.

 

 

[NSEP]

9 hours ago, KerikBalm said:

They aren't frozen lakes- its the same distance from the sun as Kerbin and Mun, the only place you could have ice is the poles, if there was a spot shielded from sunlight, there's not (minmus has no craters). Any ice on the surface would have sublimated away long ago.

There was a period of time called Snowball Earth. In this time period Earth was almost completely covered in ice. This lasted about 450 million years. How? Because ice reflects sunlight. Distance from the sun doesn't equal to temperature.