In "The crimes of the hot" when the planet express crew visit Halleys Comet, it is producing a tail, in fact comets only have a tail (well 2 tails as it happens), when they're within 5 Au of the sun. In 3002 Halleys comet should be more like 40 Au from the sun.
Yeah, thats my scintific problem with that episode....
(also comets up close are black as all ice from the upper layers has evaporated)
"tranquil_demon" wrote in message news:[email]...
It's the distant future. They could of altered the orbit of the big H to make it easier to get to the ice.
Also all the ice had been takken, so that's why the comet was brown (At least that's what they said in the audio commentary)
"Morph" wrote in message news:...
Or possibly the orbit was changed durin the war mentioned by Free Waterfall Senior. Thats my theory anyway...
I know about the refrence to it being brown in the audio cometry but if its black now (and it is), that would actually make it brighter once all the ice had been removed.
Anyway they were just random observations i made, not serious complaints, if i'm going to let them get away with the Neptunians (and i am), anything goes. Curiously planetary science is one area when Futuramas usually pretty good science goes to pieces.
Besides, they can travel to the edge of the universe, but *can't* find another source of ice???
Try Jupiter's moon Europa for a start!
Paul Hyett wrote in message news:...
Maybe they used up Europa's ice already. They should still have been able to get some from Pluto. (Unless the penguins there -- "Ice Bot of Alcatraz" -- got organized by the time "Crimes of the Hot" rolled around. Presumably, they did ...) -- Christopher Heckman
too many bugs in presumably.
[email] (Proginoskes) wrote in message news:...
Apparently, that's all highly acidic, so that's no good.
Most likely the continual mining of ice from it has changed it's orbit over the next 998 years?
Hint: it's a cartoon! :)
Scott.