Which planet were you visiting, dear?

Caroluna · Post by **Caroluna** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:49 am

The husband just came back from a work-related trip, with the following pictures. These look like satellite images to me.

The cliffs are hundreds of feet tall.

This planet has a dense atmosphere.

This one has twisted objects, hundreds of feet long, strewn across the glossy planet surface.
They resemble vegetation but might actually be mineral formations.

crookedtune · Post by **crookedtune** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:10 am

How does his work-related tan look?

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:11 am

Ok, ok....without looking further than the pics, I'm going to guess that this is the planet Beetch. (now I'm gonna look.)

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:33 am

Look at what? I mean, what is there further than the pictures? Sorry, haven't had my coffee yet.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:44 am

Ya got me... Maybe emm thought it was a Denny post? What, with the otherworldliness...

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:52 am

Her name is Deena
And everyone knows
There's nobody meaner

She's a real beetch!

djm

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:58 am

Very cool. Looks like that planet has liquid water on the surface, so I suppose there's a possibility of life.

Tom

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:06 am

WyoBadger wrote:Very cool. Looks like that planet has liquid water on the surface, so I suppose there's a possibility of life.

Tom

You are assuming it's water. It's just some transparent liquid. It could be methane, hydrochloric acid, methylalcohol or polyethylene-glycol.

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:23 am

This all looks a bit Venusian to me, but I may be mistaken, having never actually been there.

--James

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:06 am

Cynth wrote:Look at what? I mean, what is there further than the pictures? Sorry, haven't had my coffee yet.

Oh, yes. Well, I posted that thinking that the true identity of the planet would have been revealed further along, when in fact it had not.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:27 am

emmline wrote:Ok, ok....without looking further than the pics, I'm going to guess that this is the planet Beetch. (now I'm gonna look.)

I suspect it is actually Beetch's sister-planet, Tydepool (which is ever so much more appealing a place than their neighbor planet, Liverpool.)

Caroluna · Post by **Caroluna** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:28 am

emmline wrote:
Cynth wrote:Look at what? I mean, what is there further than the pictures? Sorry, haven't had my coffee yet.
Oh, yes. Well, I posted that thinking that the true identity of the planet would have been revealed further along, when in fact it had not.

Oops, sorry guys. I haven't had my coffee yet either

It's planet La Jolla Cove, in the San Diego system.
Husband assures me that the liquid in the pictures is not ethanol.

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:45 am

Nonetheless, it is clearly some hydrocarbon derivative.

djm

Caroluna · Post by **Caroluna** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:58 pm

djm wrote:Nonetheless, it is clearly some hydrocarbon derivative.

djm

It was a mathematical conference, so I'm sure that taking derivatives was an integral part of the proceedings.

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:07 pm

and you believed him?