' Wrote:We have so many other weird freaky spatial anomalies which don't make any sense but are Dom K'Voshed into existence, I don't see a liquid nebula as out of the question. Could be kinda cool.
Yes--after cringing at the "stacked billiard ball planets" in one Gallic system, a liquid atmoshpere black dwarf is pretty tame. In fact, a carbon star could have a core of petroleum and spew it out forming an "ocean atmoshpere" around it.
It's a real stretch but...
Quote:The thermoacoustic natural gas liquefier converts heat into sound waves and then converts the hot sound wave energy to cold refrigeration using highly pressurized helium contained in a network of welded steel pipes. First, the system combusts a small fraction of the natural gas to heat one end of the steel pipe network. Then, the resulting acoustic energy refrigerates the opposite end of the network, which cools the rest of the natural gas. At minus 160 degrees Celsius the natural gas liquefies - rendered dense enough for economical transport. This technology requires no moving parts, contributing to its economy of operation.
If you had the dark core I was talking about radiating the infrared and having some substance in its composition that converted the IR to acoustic energy and then had a layer of helium tightly pressed by gravity but not ignited--with "oil" mixed within it in pockets, they might get liquified (hey--its a scifi fantasy extrapolation here).