Slashdot Mirror
New Ice Structure Could Help Seed Clouds, Cause Rain
ScienceDaily is reporting that a new ice chain structure may provide a better method for seeding clouds and causing rain. "Ice structures are usually built out of simple hexagonal arrangements of water molecules and this hexagonal building block motif is easily observed in the structures of snowflakes. However, during their studies Dr Angelos Michaelides and co-workers from the Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, and the University of Liverpool have discovered a natural nanoscale ice structure formed of pentagons."
A science fiction history about ice that is stable at room temperatura, so iceize the adjacent water. Causing the apocalipsys wen one piece of ice9 accidentally touch the sea.
-Woof woof woof!
I can see on the tags that I am not the only one who thought so
Yet another form of Ice to add the existing 16-odd arrangements.
Nice, nice, very nice
I think to say that Science Daily does any reporting is stretching the definition of reporting a bit much. I think "rewritten from a press release" is more like it.
If you want a real news piece, with real reporting, check out the article on the same paper over at New Scientist. They actually talked with the scientist involved in the study (and one that wasn't).
Per Square Mile, a blog about density
pentagon != pentagram
I can't believe you don't know what a Hasemalphaginnojinglanaporphomism is.
We need to realize that we are shaping nearly-infinitely complex systems, whether we want to or not. Then we can learn to understand them so that we can create intended consequences.
About 20 years ago when I was a freshman an the State University of New York at Albany, I had the good fortune to meet Bernard Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut's brother. After talking to him a bit, the light went on in my head and I realized he must have been the inspiration for Kurt's ideas about ice-9!
Bernard Vonnegut was a brilliant atmospheric scientist who invented the process of cloud seeding with silver iodide crystals. Despite his achievements, he was a kind gentleman who was more than happy to take the time to talk to a curious freshman about his work. We had several fascinating conversations and he even gave me reprints of his original journal articles on cloud seeding. I learned a lot from him and was inspired by his example.