Now I could have called this “Why Ventana 5 Is Settled, But Not Ventana 4, Part 2,” but … the phenomenon I need to describe is just so beautiful in addition to being so deadly …
I shared yesterday about the magnetic storms of Ventana 4 and the dust they kick up from its abundant metallic salt deposits into perfectly crystalline, angular tornadoes.
Ventana 4 also has “regular” weather in terms of storms and rain … but with all that metallic dust going up into the atmosphere, the clouds are seeded with it and the rain is full of it … it essentially rains mud on Ventana 4 … but it is beautiful mud, anyhow, out of pitch-dark skies that burst out, with lightning that ignites and illumines the fantastical colors of their cloudbursts.
The one at the top is a subtle version, not unlike the turquoise that can be seen when light shines through very tall clouds on earth … but in this case, the turquoise comes down to the ground, composed of copper chloride (blue) and copper sulfate (green) ignited by the lightning that makes it all visible.
Much more copper chloride in this one … so true blue ...
A pastel variation showing the presence of various copper and calcium and strontium salts so turquoise and pale red and orange are visible...
... and here, more of the brilliant pink and orange, with a touch of yellow ... like in the Rose Mirror Binary 300 light-years away, a lot of the pink here comes from gold dust at high temperatures...
On Ventana 4, you can get your rain and your fireworks all at the same time … but bear in mind how the environment around these storms actually has to be for there to be flash-ignition in the middle of all that water … like the kind of situation my business partner M.A. Kirk told me about back in the 20th century on Earth in which there was a river in Ohio some of his mischievous ancestors enjoyed setting on fire. The Cuyahoga River, back in the day, was orange, and was so polluted that a match could ignite a fire rolling down the river.
Lightning makes kind of a big sort of match for water like that, and although Ventana 4 has water like that naturally, beings like ourselves could no more sing or even survive in that kind of rain than we could dunking in and drinking the Cuyahoga River, back in the day.
That's another view on life on Ventana 4 … a beautiful window into why humans and humanoids will never settle on it.
But notice, I did not say the planet was lifeless … it's just not our kind of life … .
The original fractal was to me one of the most beautiful things I have made in Apophysis 2.09, and reminded me of real cloudbursts I have seen over the Pacific Ocean ... the other three represented my favorite palette choices for this remarkable fractal. Meanwhile, I just did a fireworks piece for the Sketchbook Community, and the thought of the colors and the science behind them was at hand's reach!
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