Goonhub
01-27-2017, 11:22 AM
Salt as a material. I can see it now. Highly corrodible, splashing with water acts as ex_act(3) until it just dissolves away to the plating below, and you can eat the floor tile if you think consuming a large amount of salt is a sensible idea.
I'm not actually too savvy on how frequent sodium chloride appears in asteroids so OFF TO THE INTERNET and am I back and the answer is basically "no, it's formed by evaporation and generally speaking asteroids don't tend to have lakes". There are apparently tiny tiny tiny trace amounts of sodium chloride in comets (<0.0008 relative to a scale where 100 is H2O), though, which I didn't know until now. Basically what I'm saying is add salt deposits to comet because fuck it, space future.
I'm not actually too savvy on how frequent sodium chloride appears in asteroids so OFF TO THE INTERNET and am I back and the answer is basically "no, it's formed by evaporation and generally speaking asteroids don't tend to have lakes". There are apparently tiny tiny tiny trace amounts of sodium chloride in comets (<0.0008 relative to a scale where 100 is H2O), though, which I didn't know until now. Basically what I'm saying is add salt deposits to comet because fuck it, space future.