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HelloWorld1352 t1_j1g6ehe wrote

Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] As the aliens blasted this strange blue planet with there hottest heat-ray, they were horrified to find the creatures below bundling up and speaking of “a chilly spring” by Ungus_Bungus_Lungus

Heat rays radiate heat rather than conduct it. It should be impossible for that to make something colder.

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CKingX123 t1_j1iquj3 wrote

Is it implying aliens live in a cold world and their interpretation of hot is cold for us? (Say their normal temperature is -70 degree Celsius and their heat ray is 8 degrees)

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HelloWorld1352 t1_j1khfl5 wrote

I don’t think it matters what the discrepancy in room temperature is. The heat ray would seem like a candle rather than an actual death ray but it doesn’t sound possible for it to be chilly.

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Nealithi t1_j1l62cb wrote

Oddly this gave me a thought on the aliens themselves. They generate intense internal heat but cannot regulate it themselves. The cold environment is what keeps them down to a proper temperature. The development of a heat gun raises the temperature at a given point and the target broils their own body as they cannot shed the heat now.

Of course the device was not designed as a weapon. It was actually intended as a medical device to assist in mating. It was supposed to be a radiator to lower the body temperature to induce mating season. But the projector managed to melt one of the onlookers for the demonstration.

As to why they would try to attack Earth when it is too warm for them. They do not want Earth, they want to colonize Europa. But humanity might protest.

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DragonSlayersz t1_j1i2b1m wrote

The point is that earth is already so warm in comparison to what they're able to do that their heat ray is basically meaningless.

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HelloWorld1352 t1_j1i2ikb wrote

I thought they meant it was making it chilly.

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DragonSlayersz t1_j1i2njr wrote

It might be that too, but you already know why that makes no sense.

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HelloWorld1352 t1_j1i2pd4 wrote

Yes, I know that it does not.

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Ungus_Bungus_Lungus OP t1_j2agnl7 wrote

Hold on let me explain better, there “heat” ray is colder than the natural temp of earth thus cooling the parts they hit down.

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HelloWorld1352 t1_j2c8wzg wrote

Oh my God, so what I said was right. It’s impossible to cool down a planet with a heat ray since they heat matter through radiation. To make something colder, the heat ray would need to fire a beam of “hot” particles colder than the planet’s surface temperature, this cooling it down via conduction. But then, it wouldn’t be a heat ray if it emitted matter instead of heat, so my point still stands. Obviously, this prompt doesn’t have to go by the laws of physics, and I’m just making a big fuss over nothing, it’s a good prompt is what I’m trying to say.

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