SCIENCE!

I love science. It’s so…science-y. So sexy. The internet is indeed for porn. SCIENCE PORN. (Do you have that song in your head now? You’re welcome.)

It seems attempts at making babies in micro-gravity may encounter difficulties not experienced in Earth’s gravity. Interesting. I may not use that in my current SF universe–in the Dream’verse they use false-grav (No, I’m not a hard SF writer. Go read David Weber explaining Warshawski sails SEVEN HUNDRED TIMES if that bothers you)–but I may write another universe someday. And it suggests some interesting things for a fantasy universe as well.

“You might see land masses and mountains made up of diamonds,” the lead researcher Dr Nikku Madhusudhan told BBC News.

Ooo…now there’s something I can use. The discovered planet is a gas-giant, but apparently a rocky planet with diamond mountains is completely possible. Wish they explained exactly what the amount of water available had to do with things, though…

Ah well, that’s what research is for.

The problem with wandering about looking at shinies, is, of course, that so much shiny exists. From that BBC article, I went to this one, and saw this.