some spiritfarer art, surprised that there isn't much art for this game??!! absolutely adored playing and drawing this :DD
Drawn on the nintendo switch
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Um hello I'm that guy that likes The Polar Bear Explorers Club by Alex Bell if.. you know if you're part of like the TWELVE PEOPLE OR SOMETHING THAT KNOW ABOUT IT
Anyway even if no one cares I'm going to be posting about it because um autism main special interest (fanart featuring my sona and also Ethan and Shay should kiss) (They're like 13 in the books they should kiss a bit later)
MUTUALS IF YOU KNOW PBEC
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Considering their kids first went through the radical process of turning into fish as unplanned, I think we can all agree that the parents would demand to have a sip of the fish potion as well, so that they can all relate to their gill-bearing children & support them while being all scales & fins themselves.
The professor would not object to this since he originally intended to be his own guinea pig, though he wouldn't expect to come out as a microscopic crustacean individual, despite literally being named after those species.
ANYWAY NOW THE ENTIRE FAMILY'S A FISH! :D (or other marine creatures in general but shut up)
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Re: my last post, I'm talking about Europa anyway <33
It's just so so cool. It's one of the few currently geologically active worlds in our solar system (I'm using world to count planets, satellites, and asteroids btw), with the others being Earth, Venus, Io, Titan, and Enceladus. They're all also incredibly interesting worlds, so feel free to ask about them.
But, Europa. Unlike Earth, Europa isn't powered via radiactive decay, but, rather, via the tidal forces from Jupiter and from being in resonance with Io (which is the most geologically active world in our solar system, btw).
So, Europa has a density of ~ 3 grams per centimeter cubed. Which means it's actually mostly rock. However, in the outer solar system past the snow line, water ice is the most common building block, so Europa's surface is entirely water ice. All of the rock is at Europa's core. All of the terrestrial worlds in the outer solar system (with the exception of Io), not only have water ice, but also have liquid water. However, this liquid water is far far beneath the surface, instead creating a sub-surface ocean.
So, why is Europa special? Europa's liquid water ocean is actually pretty close to the surface.
Here's a picture of Europa. (Also, please note that pretty much all pictures you'll see of other planets have have had the contrast increased)
Do you see those big lines of fractures along the surface? Those are because of the tidal forces from Jupiter. Basically, what happens is that the actual shape of Europa is being changed as it orbits Jupiter (and this is seen far more with Io, but it still affects Europa). So at certain points in its orbit, it's more oval than spherical and vice versa. (The same thing happens with the Earth's oceans as the moon orbits us, but the affects it has on the satellites in the outer world is a bit different due to a) having other satellites in resonance, and, b) the difference in size and mass between Jupiter and its satellites).
So, as Europa is orbiting Jupiter, these fractures are sometimes pulled apart. When that happens, the liquid water ocean underneath becomes exposed to the vacuum of space (because Europa doesn't have an atmosphere), so very very quickly a new layer of ice is formed. When the fractures close again at different points of Europa's orbit, that ice is pushed up and creates kinda ice-berg like mounds I'd say?
Anyway, it's one of the reasons we know Europa's ocean is pretty close to the surface.
But!! But. The most exciting thing is the fact that, due to the tidal forces from Jupiter, there's heat/energy sources in the ocean. Why is this important?
Because every single place on Earth where there is liquid water and a heat/energy source, there is life. Because this means that Europa is the most likely extra-terrestrial place in our solar system to have life.
And astrobiologists love Europa because of this.
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