Pees In Spaaaaaace

[PANIC! on the Titanic]

wow this is a palpable level of nerdy. so, frozen water experts..what exactly happens to H2O in outer space? it is considered outside still.. right?

If you throw the water into space and let it settle to the balmy ambient temperature of around 3 Kelvin, it will be pretty naturally frozen. I don't think it's the location of crystallization that determines its mineral status, rather the actual crystal forming factor of cooling must be natural. By this logic, if you take hot lava and stick it in your freezer and cool it down until it's a chunk of granite, you do not have a rock, since a rock is an agglomeration of minerals, of which you have none since your punk ass synthesized it all! Geology's fun isn't it?

EDIT: Oh you said lave nm

Fun fact, ice's hardness increases as temperature decreases. at barely frozen, it's like talc. Around -70 C, it can scratch glass. Idk what it's hardness is at 3 K (-370 C) but shiiiiit it's probably hard as fuck. Like mah D.

um I don't have lots of tons of pressure in my freezer for the pluton to turn into intrusive igneous.

Guess I should be more accurate here. If you have lava then you accesed some extrusive material so you'd have a rhyolite melt if it were of similar composition as granite. It could be basalt, obsidian, etc but that's neither here nor there since in the end you'd just have .. uh...slag in your freezer?

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I know all this shit ..but thanks ..nah see my intrusive edit above

[PANIC! on the Titanic]

What if the piss in the ISS got released into space? Would it be like a conglomerate space rock?

Didn't see this part through all the nerd rage going on.

Idk if there's a term for for frozen pee (pisscicle?) But it would be a conglomerate. Not a mineral because it has to have a fixed but not definite chemical formula (like clays which can substitute alkalies) but pee has too many components which are in different abundances every time. So yeah, you'd have a frozen piss block floating around waiting to enter an atmosphere at high speeds and become a peeteor.

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nm drunk posting is silly

[PANIC! on the Titanic]

I highly enjoy this, as a geochemistry grad student. My advisor trolls us with this kind of shit all the time. How far along are you in your geo studies redox?

Btw, by means of sheer nerd insanity, i believe the past few posts, while derailing the topic initially, became ridiculously wtf and re-railed itself.

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I highly enjoy this, as a geochemistry grad student. My advisor trolls us with this kind of shit all the time. How far along are you in your geo studies redox?

Btw, by means of sheer nerd insanity, i believe the past few posts, while derailing the topic initially, became ridiculously wtf and re-railed itself.

I studied geology years ago. I made it through structural, mineralogy, thin section, crystallography, etc. jr level. Wife got job in St Louis, couldn't get into a program up here. Have had to work cause of kids. I am graduating with a tepid piecemeal liberal studies degree in psych and anthro after all these years. I have so may credits it would make your head spin. I should have PhD

[PANIC! on the Titanic]

Does your wife at least call you doctor when playing such?

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Ok then what would happen if an astronaut got hurled off into space and pissed in his/her suit...million of years later by some freak chance the frozen astronaut is entering the accretion disk of a black hole. What becomes of the pissicle block?

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Does your wife at least call you doctor when playing such?

oh I don't know what this is ..but I am feeling a depression coming on.

[PANIC! on the Titanic]

Ok then what would happen if an astronaut got hurled off into space and pissed in his/her suit...million of years later by some freak chance the frozen astronaut is entering the accretion disk of a black hole. What becomes of the pissicle block?

I think we're done here.

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Much more likely, though still an by an impossibly small chance the frozen astronaut is captured in deep space by a Cuban asteroid mining craft then returned to the USA to be encapsulated in a space probe in his/her honor and sent to mars in order to study the effects of the surface level Martian atmosphere on pissicle blocks at the equator.

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Ok then what would happen if an astronaut got hurled off into space and pissed in his/her suit...million of years later by some freak chance the frozen astronaut is entering the accretion disk of a black hole. What becomes of the pissicle block?

I think we're done here.

you're a dick

[PANIC! on the Titanic]

No, I'm an asshole. Big difference.

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ok then, explain the difference, asshole and dick expert..

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you know there is no vitriol here on my end I'm just goofing bro'