Field guide No. 1490

A cracked concrete sphere sits on pink desert with a small hole in its side, and clear cubes stream out of it into the air. The cubes float off rather than fall.

Slow leak

Losing ice, one cube at a time

A cracked concrete sphere sits on pink desert with a small hole in its side, and clear cubes stream out of it into the air. The cubes float off rather than fall.

Field noteConcrete balls are solid or hollow; this one is pressurised with ice cubes that drift off like steam.

Specimen
No. 1490
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A pink salt pan under low cloud.
Nearest existing relative
A leaking tyre.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Objects

Also possible, also breaking physics