Astronomers find blue planet where it rains glass - sideways at 4500 miles per hour
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So Earth is a nice cuddly cradle considering the hospitality skills of foreign planets.
[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;41416437]I wonder if the people that live there look at our planet and think it's amazing that it rains water.[/QUOTE]
I'm not quite sure anything could ever live on this planet.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;41416027]This would make a great anomaly in Endless Space[/QUOTE]
-10 approval
+2 food per person on planet from all the pre-cut dead meat
[QUOTE=Lambadvanced;41416617]I'm not quite sure anything could ever live on this planet.[/QUOTE]
Well it obviously would not be anything like anything on Earth. Earth's calm environment allows us to have thin, fleshy outer layers. If creatures were to live on this planet they would be immensely dense and have extremely thick, armored skin
[QUOTE=Amplar;41416343]right, so if we decide to land on this planet we're bringing a fucking abrams or something.[/QUOTE]
It's a gas giant so landing would involve flattening into a pancake-shaped lump.
+2 food per person on planet from all the pre-cut dead meat
[QUOTE=Cureless;41415861]That planet rains glass, Uranus (apparently) has iceberg sized diamonds in an ocean of liquid diamond.
Sure makes our planet seem boring in comparison.[/QUOTE]
brains are growing on our planet
and they invented the internet
stop shitting on my dreams you space autisticles
This is like some Douglas Adams or Invader ZIM kind of stuff.
[QUOTE=Cureless;41415861]That planet rains glass, Uranus (apparently) has iceberg sized diamonds in an ocean of liquid diamond.
Sure makes our planet seem boring in comparison.[/QUOTE]
Haha, yeah our planet has nothing special or unique going for it at all!
Best place to live would be underground it seems.
Kinda insane to think about wind speeds that fast, since 100+ winds here can destroy property easily, but 4500? That is just fucking crazy.
[QUOTE=Richardroth;41418003]Kinda insane to think about wind speeds that fast, since 100+ winds here can destroy property easily, but 4500? That is just fucking crazy.[/QUOTE]
I think we can conclude the surface of that planet has no life on it. Everything would get torn apart before anything could even attempt to adapt.
especially since there isn't a surface
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and nothing would have a time limiter to adapt since it would grow from the very start in that environment, if any life forms existed I'd bet they would be something like the portugese man'o'wars - lots of specialized little organisms glued together, floating through the lower atmosphere, below the glass rain
regardless we will never go there and even if we did we wouldn't recognize anything there as a life form (even if it was alive)
A planet where it rains lego bricks would be deadlier.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;41415836]Fucking is putting it lightly, you'd get eviscerated.[/QUOTE]
It isn't fucking if there's no penetration! :eng101:
[QUOTE=Protocol7;41415836]Fucking is putting it lightly, you'd get eviscerated.[/QUOTE]
I think the gravity would kill you first. Our skeletal structure wasn't built for that, neither were our muscles (especially the heart).
[QUOeTE=Cureless;41415861]That planet rains glass, Uranus (apparently) has iceberg sized diamonds in an ocean of liquid diamond.
Sure makes our planet seem boring in comparison.[/QUOTE]
We have tube which spew forth molten rock, oceans of liquid water, giants fingers of whirling death sweeping across vast plains, and self aware, reproducing, hypercomplex chemical reactions that are beginning to colonise the universe.
You call that boring? More like fucking awesome.
[QUOTE=garychencool;41417976]Best place to live would be underground it seems.[/QUOTE]
There is no underground to save you on a gas giant.
[QUOTE=Ryz0;41415950]wont stop boris the animal[/QUOTE]
Won't stop Riddick
[QUOTE=Aries;41415840]So are we going to colonise it or what[/QUOTE]
Fuck it, Dwarf Fortress Colonization.
We can do this guys.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;41419372]I think the gravity would kill you first. Our skeletal structure wasn't built for that, neither were our muscles (especially the heart).[/QUOTE]
Or maybe the fact that it's 2000 deg fahrenheit
Send a rocket made of diamonds to this planet so we can conquer it with our diamond warriors.
I think it'll work.
[QUOTE=Cureless;41415861]That planet rains glass, Uranus (apparently) has iceberg sized diamonds in an ocean of liquid diamond.
Sure makes our planet seem boring in comparison.[/QUOTE]
isn't liquid diamond just liquid graphite
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i wonder if it sparkles though it'd be a fabulous planet
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wait wtf liquid diamonds are real
Now we need to find a planet where it rains puppies and everything is fluffy.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;41415798]How assuredly habitable. What's the worst that could happen?[/QUOTE]
They should come to Australia after some R&R over there.
If you were to throw a paper plane (when it wasnt raining glass), every 2 seconds that it flew with the wind it would cover the diameter of the earth.
Still more habitable than Liverpool.
[QUOTE=Cureless;41415861]Sure makes our planet seem boring in comparison.[/QUOTE]
Our planet only seems boring because of it's familiarity. Next to all the dead rocks out there floating aimlessly with no atmosphere, I'm quite happy for having water, living creatures and brilliant blue skies. (Or hell, even the grey overcast ones.)
Out there, in the grim darkness, there is probably a planet raining Lego
Perfect for a torture prison
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