It's a good bet that J.K. Rowling got the idea of magical chocolate frogs from Freddo Frogs
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Hey kids, it's the fifth most obscure Shout-Out ever! <applause>
Damnit DMMAUS! Where are my royalties, for Pete being me?
Don't think you can get away from paying your due just because it's been multiple pages of thread since it's fallen off the page since I brought it up.
antic disposition
Top Deck Freddo Frogs are delicious, I'll have you know. There's also a caramel version with a koala (Caramello Koala).
"Doctor Who means never having to say you're kidding." - Bocaj
I can't say I'd ever heard of Freddo Frogs before today.
Drop-Dead Cynical
You can tell Ben and Sally are related because they help each other with puns.
It's always amusing to me when the GM just let's Sally design the world.
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Chaotic Greedy
Why does she describe the city as taller than it's wide?
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
It wouldn't be much of a cloud city if it wasn't.
Lost in Space
I'm curious if they'll keep the "gas mine" concept from the film. A city can't exist without an economic function, and it's not like they can grow food or mine minerals on a gas giant.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Because it is. Doesn't it look taller than it is wide?
The measurements look right.
Chaotic Greedy
Ah, I didn't see the spine was part of the city. I thought it was a pillar like in DBZ
◊, so I counted the city as starting from the conical section up.
edited 20th Jul '14 2:29:36 PM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
That I can understand. It is an easy part to miss from that single screenshot, especially if you haven't watched the movie or it's been a while since you've seen it.
It mines He3.
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They export air.
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
A gas giant with a breathable atmosphere could make a lot of asteroid colonies happy.
"Show us the Galaxy Warp."
Lost in Space
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From a gas giant? I suppose it's within the realm of possibility that it has an atmosphere that's suitable for organic life of some sort, but the logistics of exporting it are utterly baffling.
The best and the worst.
Well, canonically, Bespin has creatures of the Living Gasbag variety. Another bit of Cloud City expanded universe trivia is that tibanna gas wasn't that uncommon, but what made Bespin so special was that it was 'spin-sealed'. Something about it being compressed at the atomic level or something,
edited 20th Jul '14 9:44:13 PM by Ninjaxenomorph
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Actually, is it physically possible to have a gas giant with a breathable atmosphere? Like, from an astronomy standpoint, certain criteria must be met in order for a planet to be a planet, and I question whether or not a nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere would be able to coalesce into a gaseous planet while remaining breathable.
I suppose you could have a gas planet made out of different gases of varying densities, with the breathable atmosphere simply being the external most density.
edited 20th Jul '14 9:56:11 PM by TheyCallMeTomu
Getting a breathable atmosphere exactly like Earth's is royally improbable in general. Once you've set that this kind if improbability is commonplace, you may as well have a gas giant with an atmospheric layer like that too.
edited 20th Jul '14 11:19:08 PM by Adannor
The big problem with a breathable gas giant is that once you get enough mass to be a gas giant you'll retain lots of hydrogen and helium, which will dominate.
So yes, Jupiter has more oxygen than Earth does.
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Lost in Space
Yes, but said oxygen is so far down and under so much pressure that there's no reasonable way to get to it. Anyway, that's only part of the scenario, the other one is how (and more importantly why) you'd ship enough of any common gas to make the expense of setting up a floating mining city at all practical. You'd have to build Death Star-sized transport vessels to carry an appreciable amount of the stuff from a planetary perspective, even condensed into liquid (or solid) form.
Given the expense, and even assuming that you're trying to terraform a barren rock to make it suitable for life, you'd almost certainly do better to extract oxygen locally from rocks and ice and such. I'm reminded of Spaceballs, where the Planet Looters are stealing Druidia's atmosphere to replace their own, which they've wrecked. They'd have had a lot more success if they'd invested in technology to reclaim the oxygen and trap the CO2 and pollutants from their own atmosphere.
See also: How to Invade an Alien Planet
edited 21st Jul '14 8:52:16 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Which is why all of the semi-serious gas giant mines I've seen involve He3.
"Show us the Galaxy Warp."
...They come with collectible cards?