Earth needs a bit more than fabric sometimes. Not only can that water fall in the solid phase, occasionally it moves really fast!

A SCBA isn't an umbrella. The rain is just more conductive atmosphere though, so you'd need a higher setting on your personal heater.

Neptune probably doesn't have ground, and HD 189733b definitely doesn't. Anything capable of surviving the pressure at that depth would probably be fine, although we don't know how large the diamonds would be or how sharp the flakes that form are. Diamond Shuriken Rain sounds like an awesome song though.

OGLE-TR-56b also probably doesn't have any ground, but depending on how high you're flying you might want something non-stick. Tons of iron welding itself to you is possibly the worst case of wing-icing you can find in nature.

There was a young adult sci fi series by Asimov called 'Lucky Starr' and I remember Venus was Oceanic in that one. Old old series.

Yeah, and we've never transported slaves to a new world on ships before.

Got eem!

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naw. they just stopped naming the children after the first couple rounds of olympians.

why name them when there's a few hundred a month? breed like rabbits, Olympians. probably out of boredom.

Then use words, or some blob of syllables of some kind of description.

I guess that's a good point.

I just assumed all the ones we would actually hear about would get named more regularly. But I guess if they're talking about a specific one, this would happen. I never really thought about how many must really be out there, but now it seems obvious.

"condensed carbon". It might work..