Will the hazy exoplanet GJ 1214b be the spa-resort getaway of the year 2100? BBC reports:
Astronomers have claimed the existence of a new class of planet: a “water-world” with a thick, steamy atmosphere. The exoplanet GJ 1214b, just 40 light-years away, is a so-called “Super Earth” – bigger than our planet, but smaller than gas giants such as Jupiter.
Observations using the Hubble telescope now seem to confirm that a large fraction of its mass is water. The planet’s high temperatures suggest exotic materials might exist there.
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Aha!! Nobody has made any Kevin Costner jokes as of yet . This may be coup de grace of comedy I have been lying in wait for.
you know that bugger is gonna be filled with giant sea monsters. that or some crazy society like “hardfought” by Greg Bear.
The worst thing to happen would be to allow ignorant humans fuck up another planet
always check your statement makes sense before u post. ha ha ha . amazing how the lack of the word (to) can shatter a sentence. ha ha
Just imagine how much you would weigh there.
yes, you’d weigh 3 or 4 times your weight on earth and you’d boil to death once your probe/ship touches the water, or whatever liquid can be sustained at an
average of over an 400 degrees
Yep. The one thing nobody talks about when these planets are discovered.
“a “water-world” with a thick, steamy atmosphere”
It’s a giant sauna
Life on other worlds? Nah, there can’t be. Water? Atmosphere? Nah, you need a God to create life.
if it is bigger why are we on this pebble