Re: Waterjammers

On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 09:37 PM, woodelf wrote:

> --> you can have a water envelope without having an air envelope
> around *that*
> --> therefore, fluids in general don't generate gravity the way that
> solids in general do

This seems like a leap. LotV says that water worlds normally
have an atmosphere more often than not.


> --> whatever causes air to cling around solid objects

That would be gravity.


> Also, there's no mention of a ship leaving a water world bringing any
> water
> with it.

That is because it is still in the gravity well of the planet, and so
when the ship launches from the surface, the water is still under the
dictum of the planet's gravity, not the ship's.


> --> liquids are somewhere in between.  They don't necessarily
> generate gravity beyond their surface, but they do generate gravity
> at their surface.

I haven't seen anything official that indicates this is a likely
scenario. And I have seen official indication that water does normally
create gravity.


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