Greetings, Sacrosanct!
[Clu? Voluntarily outside. This can't end well.]
Given that this...phenomenon...is systemic and shows no signs of ceasing, in any Zone? No, really, it's everywhere. Even the beaches are covered in it.The real question is how individual flakes can be so beautiful in isolation, and so...not. In groups. But what I'm asking is
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Unless if you happen to be the AI that generated all this snow in the first place. That's really the only thing that's phenomenal here.
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Yes! Those are the conditions I'm interested in.
[Because hexagons.]
...The last large-scale water-based occurrence was an accident. Our Blue Lady's not known for her superior error-trapping.
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[Less lecture-y:]
I do more metal crystallization than water, but the basics are the same. Water's just a pain to work with.
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Hey, thanks! Super helpful.
I pulled near-perfect cuboids out of potassium chloride, with some prompting, but they were. Brittle when false-randomized according to projected controls. And they had this distressing tendency to feather.
...Yeah, I. Should probably go comb Hawking for the necessaries, huh.
Metal, huh? Interesting. [Processes clearly that he's dealing with a fellow AI, and then says it anyway: ] Please, tell me all about it.
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[Just. Grinning. With a slightly manic chuckle]
Didn't anyone ever tell you, kid? Bigger is better.
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Well the thing is...snow flakes are water crystals. Crystallization is a very small-scale event when it comes to water. The biggest you can get them naturally is about two inches in diameter, and that's really rare. But, I guess if you want a really big one or something, you could always sculpt one out of ice...that might not really count, though.
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I suppose I might as well offer my services, seeing as how I am creating the snow.
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Well. Can't have everything.]
Greetings!
I'm discovering that I kinda. Really dig snowflakes, in abstraction. The six-fold symmetry is near-ideal and kinda reminds me of the City.
...But they need to be larger than they are. And not so. Wet.
Really? You did all this? [If he sounds kind of overwhelmed, it's because he is, but there's nothing hostile about it.] Nice.
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Snowflakes cannot be larger than your expectations. I suppose if I focused more effort into it, I could make them larger. But what would be the point of that?
Yes. I did. I prefer it to snow around the holidays.
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[He wants water or snow. Both is just messy.]
They're...disorganized. They're just drifting around. Bigger ones'd be easier to stack, for example. Also easier to display.
[Have a noncomittal, friendly sort of nod with a grin.]
I know very little about these holidays, in particular, but I'm learning a lot about snow.
This one's a Us--human holiday, isn't it? You from Earth?
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You alright, man?
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[Really. It's monogrammed and everything.]
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