Comets Form Like Deep Fried Ice Cream Scoops 37

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @02:37PM from the hold-the-whipped-cream dept.

astroengine writes Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, Calif., have added another oddity to the cometary 'weird list': comets are best described as scoops of deep fried ice cream. "The crust is made of crystalline ice, while the interior is colder and more porous," said Murthy Gudipati of JPL, co-author of a recent study appearing in The Journal of Physical Chemistry. "The organics are like a final layer of chocolate on top."

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But how do they taste? (Score:2)

by NotDrWho ( 3543773 ) writes:

I'm just asking for a friend.
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  by rossdee ( 243626 ) writes:
  
  I wouldn't try tasting a comet - your tongue would stick to it
  - Oh yeah? (Score:2)
    
    by Gription ( 1006467 ) writes:
    
    I double dog dare you!!
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  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  Meatier.
Hmm. They finally caught up to the fictional JPL (Score:1)

by Anonymous Coward writes:

The JPL astronomers in the Niven / Pournelle book Lucifer's Hammer use hot fudge sundae as the model for the comet in the book, when they are trying to compute the damage it will do if it hits the earth. See page 85 or so, depending on your edition of the book. https://books.google.com/books?id=mWL5SdJobpcC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=lucifer%27s+hammer+hot+fudge+sundae&source=bl&ots=DWaZRJZoGM&sig=_1d6AE4rnz8dzJ4R-aB3RJEnb5A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FbHbVLGoAYT0oATL0oGgCQ&ved=0CC0Q6
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  by AK Marc ( 707885 ) writes:
  
  Most "good" science fiction has things that are true, but just not known yet. Jules Verne has a list of predicted inventions too long for me to list here (I'm sure someone would be offended I left off their favorite). Like good science, if it isn't predictive, it isn't useful. Much of Heinlein and Hubbard is provably impossible now, but was used as plot devices. Star Trek is splitting the difference, a little predictive, a little impossible. Niven liked aliens a little too much to be testable, though R
Not really odd (Score:3, Informative)

by Iamthecheese ( 1264298 ) writes: on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @02:50PM (#49032161)

That's what happens when you melt and refreeze the surface of a foamed polyphasic material. How is this odd?

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  by gstoddart ( 321705 ) writes:
  
  Because most of us have probably never heard of foamed polyphasic materials, and consequently don't know the effects of repeated melting and freezing of their surface?
  Just sayin' ... some of us need the ice cream analogy.
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    by wisnoskij ( 1206448 ) writes:
    
    Most of us do not know that technical jargon sentence, no, but must of us understand what happens when you melt and refreeze something like that.
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    by hcs_$reboot ( 1536101 ) writes:
    
    Hmm he was probably looking forward a +5 Funny.
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    by Anonanonaon ( 3425201 ) writes:
    
    People like you give me hope.
    -That is, people listening to their inner voice and rather than shutting it down, acting on it to try to bring themselves into closer alignment with objective reality and sanity.
    It's tough, and not everybody has the stones for it, which is why those who make the push deserve a ton of respect. The easy roads all lead to nutsville.
Nice collaborative work (Score:2)

by hcs_$reboot ( 1536101 ) writes:

NASA in TFA [nasa.gov] relates in details that the work they did mainly comes from the European Space Agency results from the Rosetta mission [wikipedia.org].
So, hot fudge sundae... (Score:3)

by CrimsonAvenger ( 580665 ) writes: on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @03:05PM (#49032327)

which falls on a Tuesdae this month, as I recall....

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  by sconeu ( 64226 ) writes:
  
  Dammit! You beat me to it!!!!
  Niven and Pournelle got it right!!!!!
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  by nytes ( 231372 ) writes:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... [wikipedia.org]
  For those who missed some of the better 1970's scifi.
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  by DerekLyons ( 302214 ) writes:
  
  Dammit! Beat me to it.
Um What? (Score:2)

by Stormy Dragon ( 800799 ) writes:

Comets Form Like Deep Fried Ice Cream Scoops
They're rolled in cinamon and sugar and deep fried?
food in the skies! (Score:1)

by Anonymous Coward writes:

Next: the Moon is made of green cheese.
Does this work on a rubber ducky? (Score:2)

by Drethon ( 1445051 ) writes:

I thought Rosetta found that 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is not out gassing evenly. So if things are primary happening in the neck of the rubber ducky, does this reform the shell after melting and rehardening again?
Mmmmmmmm....... (Score:2)

by Brad1138 ( 590148 ) writes:

Deep fried ice cream scoops......
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  by Livius ( 318358 ) writes:
  
  Why would anyone want to deep-fry the scoop?
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    by Brad1138 ( 590148 ) writes:
    
    Touché
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Hmm. They finally caught up to the fictional JPL (Score:1)

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Nice collaborative work (Score:2)

So, hot fudge sundae... (Score:3)

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Um What? (Score:2)

food in the skies! (Score:1)

Does this work on a rubber ducky? (Score:2)

Mmmmmmmm....... (Score:2)

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