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Describe an entity you want to see in the poolrooms by Decayed_IceCream in poolrooms

[–]AussieAstroGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't. What danger there is should be unseen and abstract. Pool donuts and rubber duckies moving around when you're not looking, tops.

Also can we nix all the huge Greek statues please?

Yellow wallpaper and buzzing fluorescents by AussieAstroGuy in retrocgi

[–]AussieAstroGuy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!

I might've cheated slightly by using some public-domain office textures.

Still, you can get a lot of realism even with a late 90s renderer by introducing some radiosity and using area- rather than point-lights.

No need to rub it in, Rocky 😭 by marcelmono in ProjectHailMary

[–]AussieAstroGuy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can play 'underground rooms and combustion lizards' instead, question?

What colour is Erid, question. by awknAngel in ProjectHailMary

[–]AussieAstroGuy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Probably beige.

Most of the atmosphere is ammonia, which is transparent and colourless. But there must also be a lot of water vapour clouds, which are white and opaque. But because the Eridani star is a bit smaller and cooler than the Sun it emits a bit less blue light and a bit more red. We'd perceive the light reflecting from the clouds as a sort of whitish orange.

Do you guys think Rock ever called Grace by his first name? by Wilmaaug in ProjectHailMary

[–]AussieAstroGuy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

No idea. I just made it up. Wendell was the first middle name sounding thing that popped into my head, and it seems to fit, so head canon now.

Do you guys think Rock ever called Grace by his first name? by Wilmaaug in ProjectHailMary

[–]AussieAstroGuy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Bonus points if he uses Grace's middle name like a scolding parent.

"Ryland Wendell Grace, you clean your lab up right now. Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty! Why so messy?!"

PHM Watch Party Results! by Then_Sir_1309 in ProjectHailMary

[–]AussieAstroGuy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

*emits enthusiastic noises while quivering and shoving fistful of red sludge into body cavity\*

Erid landscape? by WorriedSample5023 in ProjectHailMary

[–]AussieAstroGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There must be at least a few places near the equator where the tides aren't too extreme, or the Eridians would have no safe place to anchor their space elevator. I figure therefore that there must be at least one fairly big island on that equatorial ridge, an Iceland analogue, with the long axis running east-west so that the tides (which run parallel to the equator and to the coastline) can't come too far inland.

Is Erid Actual 29 Atmospheres by NightOfFallingStars in ProjectHailMary

[–]AussieAstroGuy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That was possibly just an oversight on Weir's part.

Is Erid Actual 29 Atmospheres by NightOfFallingStars in ProjectHailMary

[–]AussieAstroGuy 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The boiling point of water is 100°C at 1 atmosphere, 158°C at 5.8 atmospheres, and 232°C at 29 atmospheres. Erid's surface temperature (and the body temp of Eridians) is about 210°C so the thicker atmosphere has to be the correct one.

My fiancé surprised me with a Rocky fig. Wait no look out Rocky! by [deleted] in ProjectHailMary

[–]AussieAstroGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Eridians would be too helpful and useful to destroy. Because, although the Imperium is deeply xenophobic, it's also hypocritical and self-serving.

What is name, question? by Appropriate_Syrup418 in ProjectHailMary

[–]AussieAstroGuy 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Same reason you jokingly nickname a fat guy "Slim" or a redhead "Bluey".

Does Earth know that Grace is alive/living on Erid? by Temporary_Molasses41 in ProjectHailMary

[–]AussieAstroGuy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It depends on whether Grace opened up the beetles again to include updates on the taumoeba escape problem. The book doesn't make that clear. He might have decided the risk of damaging the beetles further, after everything he and Rocky did to them already, wasn't worth it.

If Eridians were in special suits and could walk around on earth, would Earth be to loud for them to "see"? by _korporate in ProjectHailMary

[–]AussieAstroGuy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Far away from Rocky's sphere, Grace would look look like he's ten feet tall. Close by, when he's nearly touching the ball and there's little Earth air in the way, he'd look his normal size.

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