• Blackest Planet Ever Found, Absorbs Nearly 100% of Light That Reaches It
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[QUOTE=OvB;31691664]Only 2 people have gone to the Challenger Deep. (the deepest part). 12 people have been on the moon, 517 people have gone to space (including those that have walked on the moon). As far as an engineering feat, traveling to the deepest depth is much harder than getting into LEO because you have to battle pressures over 16,000 PSI (1,099 times surface pressure). The ocean floor is teaming with life, even at the deepest depths. There's so much more to learn about than what you may think. We found life forms in the ocean that can live in extremely high temperatures and survive off chemosynthesis. About 50 years ago it was thought that there would be no life on the bottom of the ocean because light can't reach that depth for Photosynthesis. We were dead wrong. Perhaps there's more to learn about life in space in our own oceans than there is to learn about life in space, in space. At least with our current space travel abilities. They are both extremely important fields and I feel they complement each other in what's yet to learn about them.[/QUOTE] And [i]just now[/i] submarines are being built again with reaching the challenger deep in mind. Alvin, probably the most notable submarine (was used to explore the Titanic) is just now being fitted to dive to 98% of the ocean (still not the Challenger Deep). However there are plans to replace it later with a sub that will be able to hit the Challenger. Richard Branson and other famous billionaires are also in their own race to hit the challenger deep which should happen sometime in the next decade if they don't die when their optimistically large glass dome doesn't crack on them. Oceanography suffers the same problem space does. It's the government doing it. Once we hit our amazing, daring, awesome, goal of the deepest point on the planet (much like the moon), the government saw no reason to wave their dick around and stopped spending money on it. Just like the Apollo program. (not to mention their window cracked and it probably wasn't worth repairing to them) [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nekton[/url]
That planet is a busta.
Call it Black Sabbath.
[QUOTE=Zenpod;31689573]Cool Planet, Shit name Should call it something awesome sounding[/QUOTE] Nearly every planet outside the Solar system has names like that. There's just too many to name after things.
[QUOTE=Aredbomb;31692524]Nearly every planet outside the Solar system has names like that. There's just too many to name after things.[/QUOTE] Well then there's enough to name one after me :smile:
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[QUOTE=HawkeyeTy;31689496]That's fucking metal.[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYwWwKV1JCE&NR=1[/media]
This must be the planet Walton Simons was talking about... It's 100% BLACK.
Wow, I wonder what's making it so black, it could be a new element for all we know.
That planet is made out of Dolemite, the blackest, hardest metal of them all. [img]http://planetill.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/dolemite.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;31689697][thumb]http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/web03/2010/9/13/7/you-were-born-too-soon-15269-1284379014-8.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE] We've discovered more about our universe than our own oceans and every time someone goes to the depths they discover new stuff. We're just in time for that discovery, but nay. And with NASA's budget... Anyway, for some reason I always like reading that science can't explain this or that or they find something they just can't explain/something that doesn't make sense. It always leaves space for a bit of unpredictability and space for dreaming. :v: [QUOTE=carcarcargo;31693406]Wow, I wonder what's making it so black, it could be a new element for all we know.[/QUOTE] That's not how it works. Elements are defined by their number of protons in the nucleus. 1 proton is element number one. 2 protons is element number two. We can count through it all until we reach atoms so big they become instable and finally near-impossible, but there isn't exactly much room for surprises. However, atoms change their properties if aligned in a certain structure and depending on their environmental conditions (pressure, heat, other materials, all kinds of energy and radiation). It's probably a certain reaction taking place that's only possible under these special conditions and nobody ever run a theoretical test with these inputs. By the way, guys: Carbon Nanotubes already only reflect [b]0.045%[/b] of visible light. I know, they're like the Mary Sues of materials.
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;31690442]Surface of the ocean looks like a watery desert.[/QUOTE] That is a very nice picture of a submarine battle you got there.
Let's name it Detroit
[QUOTE=Maucer;31691417]Ughh no. They find completely new species with every deep sea dive.[/QUOTE] Permanently blinding them with the searchlights in the process :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;31694507]Permanently blinding them with the searchlights in the process :rolleyes:[/QUOTE] Would you even have eyes down there? It would probably be mostly feelers or tentacles, right?
Once you discover TrES-2b, you won't go back.
Wow I can't imagine what it looks like.
Mother fucking science.
I was gonna photoshop a moon of that planet to look like a certain fruit we all know about but I better not :v:
[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;31697702]Would you even have eyes down there? It would probably be mostly feelers or tentacles, right?[/QUOTE] Some do. They would only be able to see blue or purple though. Anything that is red would be invisible. [editline]12th August 2011[/editline] Which is why many animals that live down there are, in fact, red. Lights from subs light them up like a Christmas tree.
[img]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100613014849/mspaintadventures/images/2/21/Alternia.gif[/img] Goddamned trolls teleporting their planet and moons into our universe.
[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;31693605]We've discovered more about our universe than our own oceans and every time someone goes to the depths they discover new stuff. We're just in time for that discovery, but nay. And with NASA's budget... Anyway, for some reason I always like reading that science can't explain this or that or they find something they just can't explain/something that doesn't make sense. It always leaves space for a bit of unpredictability and space for dreaming. :v: That's not how it works. Elements are defined by their number of protons in the nucleus. 1 proton is element number one. 2 protons is element number two. We can count through it all until we reach atoms so big they become instable and finally near-impossible, but there isn't exactly much room for surprises. However, atoms change their properties if aligned in a certain structure and depending on their environmental conditions (pressure, heat, other materials, all kinds of energy and radiation). It's probably a certain reaction taking place that's only possible under these special conditions and nobody ever run a theoretical test with these inputs. By the way, guys: Carbon Nanotubes already only reflect [b]0.045%[/b] of visible light. I know, they're like the Mary Sues of materials.[/QUOTE] If you watched through the wormhole with Morgan Freeman, you would have seen that gravitational fieelds and solar flares and stuff like that affect radioactive decay rates. Hell, it could have an atmosphere made of francium or astatine. We have never done an experiment with this at far distances from earth. Who knows, maybe no elements are stable out in the big voids.
[QUOTE=Gustafa;31689618]Must, resist, racism.[/QUOTE] Once you got black, you never go back.
Oh god this fucking comment on the article [quote]08/12/11 at 12:32 pm Wouldn't it make sense that its extremely close proximity to its star make it burnt to a crisp? We all know what happens to things that are burnt that badly, then turn...black. Its probably just far enough away to not be constantly molten but close enough to be permanantly burnt to a crisp. The thing I'm wondering though is: if its that close, wouldn't the gravity of its star pull it towards it?[/quote] YOU ARE AN IDIOT
[QUOTE=Unbanned User;31699036]Oh god this fucking comment on the article YOU ARE AN IDIOT[/QUOTE] haha yeah, it was almost as poorly thought out and uninformed as this one [QUOTE=Unbanned User;31698951]If you watched through the wormhole with Morgan Freeman, you would have seen that gravitational fieelds and solar flares and stuff like that affect radioactive decay rates. Hell, it could have an atmosphere made of francium or astatine. We have never done an experiment with this at far distances from earth. Who knows, maybe no elements are stable out in the big voids.[/QUOTE]
It would be like having permanent stealth mode for black people on that planet! Just imagine the possibilities.
[QUOTE=plokoon9619;31699169]It would be like having permanent stealth mode for black people on that planet! Just imagine the possibilities.[/QUOTE] Yeah, you could be crushed by the intense gravity.
[QUOTE=Turnips5;31699144]haha yeah, it was almost as poorly thought out and uninformed as this one[/QUOTE] but morgan freeman is black so he knows more about this planet than you do
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;31699422]Yeah, you could be crushed by the intense gravity.[/QUOTE] Not if you had a very powerful mass effect field
Next up: Scientists discover the whitest planet ever. It wears plaid and drinks martinis, and is the home world of Conan O'Brien.
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