Runaway to the Stars: Page 151
Added 2024-08-15 10:26:42 +0000 UTCI need to come back to this page and do the math better later but for now I just need to eject it and move on. Weight estimations suckkkkk
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I love how Talita is sitting on the mattress but her upper body is leaning on the couch. I love her so much 💙
ClockworkC0rvus
2024-08-24 12:43:18 +0000 UTCcommonly, extracting deuterium from water: natural hydrogen is mostly "protium," hydrogen with atomic mass of 1, but a little bit of it is deuterium, with a mass of 2. from what I remember about the setting and real-world physics, deuterium is probably a fusion fuel. (ready to receive my face-egg from the author if this isn't what electrolysis plants in RttS do, though 😅) electrolysis takes water and splits it with electricity. just because of Physics™ and the ways that lighter molecules participate in all kinds of reactions more readily, the lighter protium-containing water preferentially splits at a higher rate than deuterium-containing water, so if you take water and electrolyze, say, half of it, the half that remains will have a higher deuterium concentration than before. you started with a *very* small concentration of deuterium, so it requires A Lot of cycles of electrolysis to get pure deuterium (the nature of the process as "leave behind the highest-mass water molecules" means that it also results in higher concentrations of oxygen-18, and if there was any tritium (hydrogen-3) in the starting water then electrolysis will also concentrate that)
Kayla~
2024-08-15 14:13:41 +0000 UTCI need to know what kind of fuel an electrolysis plant is making (and how it's done, I'm not a rocket scientist)
Origamigryphon
2024-08-15 13:54:10 +0000 UTCCould Talita and co. afford to leave Dirtball on their own?
Thee
2024-08-15 13:26:57 +0000 UTCMan after Bip’s “hey only person I really have to talk to are we friends?” page the thought of them being adrift alone for decades is kinda distressing. Good thing we know that’s not gonna be the case in the end!
Styrofoam Skillet
2024-08-15 11:31:02 +0000 UTCso excited!!
Flo
2024-08-15 10:46:39 +0000 UTCSo the gang isn’t currently planning on leaving with the runaway! Interesting… Wonder what will give them the final push it takes to actually leave dirtball. Maybe Mel’s unspecified project?…
Krangis
2024-08-15 10:31:57 +0000 UTCDestination: somewhere that will buy boxes of phones no questions asked.
EVH
2024-08-15 10:31:09 +0000 UTC
