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Posted: 8/28/2022 7:04:25 PM EDT
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Scientists have discovered a beautiful ocean world that looks like it was ripped out of the Star Wars prequels. The exoplanet TOI-1452 b was discovered just 100 light-years from Earth. A new paper on the discovery says that the entire planet is covered by a thick layer of water and that it's located far enough from its star to possibly support. The planet is just slightly greater in size and mass than Earth. While the fact that this exoplanet is covered in water is intriguing, it's also located a perfect distance out from its stars to not be too cold or hot. That means that it could potentially support life, though it's unclear what kind of life might thrive on an ocean world such as this. This isn't the first time we've seen entire planets or celestial objects covered in water. Some of Jupiter and Saturn's moons are covered in thick water layers. However, it's unclear if the ocean world is truly oceanic, or just covered in a thick layer of ocean that eventually meets rock. |
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That's where that fish from half life got beamed in from
No thanks |
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How do they know it is water? It could be blue or whatever slime, it could be the bukkake planet, they guess it is covered in water.
They don't even know what it looks like, they come up with some BS graphic. |
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I like how it says it’s all water so they don’t know what type of life could be supported. Uhhh, perhaps ocean life creatures?
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This is real question.
Why would anything anywhere vary too far from what is on earth? I know we don't know everything, but going by physics, stuff should not vary too far from what it is here. So yea, there is hydrogen and O2 that combined somewhere. |
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Quoted: Story However, it's unclear if the ocean world is truly oceanic, or just covered in a thick layer of ocean that eventually meets rock. View Quote Am I missing something? |
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They take guesses as to the planets makeup but have no idea what sort of life might thrive in water. Science is all but dead.
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Also 100 light years away? That is not exactly current data. Yea, it was there ......once, or maybe now.
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Quoted: They take guesses as to the planets makeup but have no idea what sort of life might thrive in water. Science is all but dead. View Quote From your understanding of science maybe. Have you ever heard that water is a solvent? Meaning the solute could be super high levels of salt, or any other number of things that make it incapable of supporting life. Our planet is a goldilocks planet of sorts. Not to much, not to little, just right. That's not to say other planets out there aren't similar, but the presence of water does not equal the ability to support life lol |
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Quoted: 100 light years really isn’t that far away. I doubt the planet disappeared in the last 100 years. View Quote Not sure I look at it that way. That light has been bent and defused, it may be there in it's same form and may not be, not that it disappeared. We are learning things faster every day, a lot of old assumptions have been proven wrong. |
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Earth once had one giant continent (Pangaea) in which the rest of the world was a just one vast ocean.
Climate change along with continental drift fixed that. |
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Quoted: Not sure I look at it that way. That light has been bent and defused, it may be there in it's same form and may not be, not that it disappeared. We are learning things faster every day, a lot of old assumptions have been proven wrong. View Quote Maybe you should write a letter to NASA. Not sure there is much bending of light in a vacuum. |
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100 light years away is old news. Unless is space news.m
Beat. Now this post is old news. |
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Is it possible that a planet covered in water as we understand it would not be supporting life?
Isn't water essentially life? |
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If we made it there, we'd probably forget to scrape the zebra mussels or asian carp eggs off our rocket and ruin it within a year.
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Sooooo...
Water is covering all the land? So they've already had their global warming SUV/BBQ/Woodstove driven catastrophe? |
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InB4 democrats find a way to tax us to prevent global warming on that distant planet
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I for one am glad that that crappy movie is 100 light years away.
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Quoted: Is it possible that a planet covered in water as we understand it would not be supporting life? Isn't water essentially life? View Quote Does life spontaneously come into existence where it can, or does it need to be seeded? If it needs to be seeded, by something like a foreign body which has life on it impacting a planet , has that happened to this planet in question? I certainly don't know. Nobody does until we go look. Furthermore, water is essential to sustain life as we know it here on Earth. So, it's possible that we will find life which also requires that, on a planet which has water. It's also entirely possible that there is life in the universe which water kills. Instead of requiring water, it might require chlorine gas to live in. Etc etc. We look for planets which have water, because they are best chance of discovering a form of life, that we know for fact at least exists. |
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Quoted: From your understanding of science maybe. Have you ever heard that water is a solvent? Meaning the solute could be super high levels of salt, or any other number of things that make it incapable of supporting life. Our planet is a goldilocks planet of sorts. Not to much, not to little, just right. That's not to say other planets out there aren't similar, but the presence of water does not equal the ability to support life lol View Quote Terrestrial life evolved to thrive in the chemical composition of water on Earth. On another planet, with a few billion years of evolution, life will evolve to thrive in the chemical composition of the water there. The water on either of our planets may be inimical to creatures from the other planet, but I would expect both to have life of some sort. |
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In this thread there are posters that don't know about the Dead Sea, right here on this planet and how that might apply to a water world.
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Just absolute bullshit. They have no idea. The science world has become a cartoon.
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View Quote Stuff like this is so much bullshit. They have no idea what it looks like. |
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Quoted: Just absolute bullshit. They have no idea. The science world has become a cartoon. View Quote |
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Quoted: Quoted: Story However, it's unclear if the ocean world is truly oceanic, or just covered in a thick layer of ocean that eventually meets rock. Am I missing something? |
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