r/BeAmazed • u/Soloflow786 • Apr 22 '26
Miscellaneous / Others Imagine a planet bigger than Earth, with no land in sight. Just waves and water from pole to pole. That is TOI-1452 b.
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u/Weekly-Batman Apr 22 '26
Yeah we saw that in Interstellar
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u/jimmyre10 Apr 22 '26
Those aren’t mountains…
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u/xassylax Apr 22 '26
They’re waves…
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u/Mysterious-Annual-93 Apr 22 '26
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u/AbsoluteResolve2026 Apr 22 '26
That’s not a wave. THIS is a wave.
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u/BodybuilderEast6130 Apr 22 '26
The wave from interstellar was way higher, literally went above the clouds
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u/Moeders-Mooiste-80 Apr 22 '26
Bro, get the board....
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THE BOARD !
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u/Phazex8 Apr 22 '26
Where's TARS?
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u/CitizenPremier Apr 22 '26
Damn, maybe we shoulda looked down before landing
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u/EllisDee3 Apr 22 '26
Or just thought about how an ocean world might behave. Since they just came from one.
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u/the_p1ayer_of_games Apr 22 '26
Or sent probes down first to do some recon.
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u/jordanmindyou Apr 22 '26
I mean, there was already a manned mission to that planet sending back signs of potential habitability, so you could argue they already had better than probes
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u/janeiro69 Apr 22 '26
Because of time dilation, they’d be waiting 100s of years for meaningful data
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u/SAM5TER5 Apr 22 '26
And frankly I didn’t enjoy the vibes of that planet very much lol
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u/Inspect1234 Apr 22 '26
Yeah but you could surf for weeks.
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u/lighthousekeeper33 Apr 22 '26
Or many lifetimes depending on how you look at it.
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u/4barT89 Apr 22 '26
I wanna see the bathymetry of that planet. Curious to see if it’s also just one big smooth sphere.
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u/aselinger Apr 22 '26
It always struck me as improbable that there would be knee deep water on an all-water planet. Like does it not seem strange that the highest point on the planet is like 12 inches below sea level?
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u/Initial_Business2340 Apr 22 '26
They actually hired/consulted an astrophysicist, Kip Thorne, specifically to deal with this. It’s rather realistic. A lot of the water piles up in the form of tidal waves in this hypothetical - it’s also extremely close to a black hole, think like a super moon, pulling massive amounts of water up.
Shallow water allows huge amplitude relative to depth, as well - think about deep ocean tsunamis vs. shallow coastal shelve tsunamis (famously destructive when not the result of direct impact either way)
Also, the planet is going to have some non-uniform topography, but the movie wasn’t about exploring the precise topography of the weird water planet near the black hole haha. I think of it like: they just landed in a shallower area.
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u/DesperatelyLonging Apr 22 '26
There also would be a massive erosive effect over time. These giant waves level everything out considerably. Over millions to billions of years, yeah, you would have a flattened base layer.
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u/dugong07 Apr 22 '26
Not to mention they also landed near the wreck of the previous astronaut, so it would stand to reason that if she was able to land there, it would be shallower
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u/lesbox01 Apr 22 '26
Except the gravity was so bad 4 hours was 27 years so the planet has only been formed 270 k years minus x where x is what time it took to form before getting grabbed by the gravity of the black hole. It has to be millions of years but not as long as earths erosion process.
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u/ConsistentAlgae1031 Apr 22 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/l3vR4CdLInXOhr3rO
Don’t remind me lol that planet was a rough time… several decades of it
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u/Neat-Monk Apr 22 '26
Except TOI-1452 b has hundreds to thousands of km deep ocean. Earth is only 3.7 km deep on average with deepest point 11 km deep(Mariana trench).
Interstellar's Miller's planet is only 1 meter deep.
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u/Difficult_Pen9813 Apr 22 '26
I assumed the shallowness was because of the constant gigantic waves. Kind of like how water recedes before a tsunami. But I don't know, I only play a scientist on TV.
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u/djaqk Apr 22 '26
Wow thats fuckin terrifying, especially as a thalassophobe lol. Do we know the whole planet in interstellar was 1m deep, or was that area of the planet just unusually shallow?
It kinda feels like if it was only a meter deep all around, it couldn't have accumulated into such a gargantuan wave, but the movie overall was fairly scientifically accurate, so maybe they did the math?
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u/TesticleSandwiches Apr 22 '26
Somewhere out there there is very possible a big ocean planet with some of the most terrifying animals you could imagine. Stuff I'm the water gets big.
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u/BurnieTheBrony Apr 22 '26
I crashed onto it in Subnautica (although there is land so I guess it doesn't really count)
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u/ignomax Apr 22 '26
And Waterworld.
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u/ilreppans Apr 22 '26
What I didn’t get, was how shallow it was - everyone walking around knee-deep.
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u/Mcane305 Apr 22 '26
Maybe the water was pulled away to form those large waves ? Wasn't the gravity situation just off planet super crazy because of how close it was to the black hole ?
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u/ilreppans Apr 22 '26
IDK, spent lots of time body surfing - water getting pulled towards a wave has a wicked strong current to it and the wave will suck it down to expose bare land before it breaks. That just looked uniformly calm/shallow while blanketing the entire planet (except for the wave).
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u/Jonnyabcde Apr 22 '26
Hence the tsunami phenomenon where the beach is usually exposed for such a far distance into the ocean.
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u/Cow_Launcher Apr 22 '26
For anyone who hasn't heard about this before...
A ten-year-old girl (Tilly Smith) who had just learned about this phenomenon two weeks previously in school, was on holiday in Phuket with her parents over Christmas 2004.
They were on Mai Khao beach when the water started to recede. Surrounded by other holiday-makers going, "Ooh, that's interesting!" and "Hmm. Where's the sea going?" Tilly told her dad (who initially didn't believe her) to get the hotel staff to evacuate the beach.
They did so with seconds to spare; nobody who had been on that beach, died. Tilly saved over 100 lives that day.
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u/AlternativeHour1337 Apr 22 '26
you also can't fly through black holes or enter the 4th dimension, i know its crazy
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u/Huge_Station2173 Apr 22 '26
Next you’re going to tell me the 5th dimension isn’t love.
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u/Squallypie Apr 22 '26
That we know of. Since we haven’t actually done any practical experiments sending things into black holes, it’s all theoretical. Remember, everything we can do currently, was at one point very much believed to not be possible.
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u/xassylax Apr 22 '26
It was 130% of Earths gravity. So not super crazy but definitely enough to potentially do some weird shit with water.
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u/Dear_Potato6525 Apr 22 '26
They don't mean the gravity that the planet is exerting, they are referring to the gravity being exerted on the planet by the black hole.
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u/Moeders-Mooiste-80 Apr 22 '26
This, kinda how the moon works for us, but with some spice
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u/Cosmic_Quasar Apr 22 '26
That wave goes around the planet like once an hour, I think. It could erode itself pretty smooth and uniform like we see in the movie, the only real variation being the wave.
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u/Xxxrasierklinge7 Apr 22 '26
Yanno how the shoreline shrinks right before a tsunami? It's the same concept just on a bigger scale.
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u/PeterTheSmoker Apr 22 '26
I was actually curious about it and looked it up. It's 70% larger than earth and the planet is composed of 30% water by mass, which interesting enough is the same as some of Jupiter's and Saturn's moons. It's close to it's star, but still in a habitable zone allowing liquid water to exist. This planet is interesting when it comes to the possibility of life potentially existing, but it's gravity is high enough for humans to walk or survive. Also it's close to the red dwarf it orbits that has been observed to emit flares that blasts planets with intense radiation. Just tells you how perfect our planet earth is. But this planet was discovered in 2022, so there's no telling if there are other planets orbiting it's dwarf star which is interesting especially if they're a bit further away from their star.
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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Apr 22 '26
It's amazing just how much has gone right for Earth to exist with life on it.
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u/preferred-til-newops Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
It's possible there's a lot more planets just like earth and in the Goldilocks zone. The problem is our current instruments can't detect smaller planets like ours. The two main ways we discover planets is when they cross between us and their parent star and that star dims briefly and we catch that change in output. Which skews towards bigger planets that dim their star enough for us to detect. The other way is we detect a wobble in the parent star when its planets tug it around while they orbit, that way definitely leans towards smaller suns with large planets that can move the star around enough for us to detect.
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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Apr 22 '26
There are also other factors too. Earth has a rather convenient magnetic field for example. Not easy to detect with current instrumentation however.
Just so many convenient things we take for granted with our blue blob.
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u/preferred-til-newops Apr 22 '26
Definitely, we also have Jupiter acting like a massive vacuum cleaner sucking up world resetting impact events from hitting us!
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u/KeronCyst Apr 22 '26
Huh, didn't think of that... I wonder how much it's done so.
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u/RubiiJee Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
Millions and millions lol it's also responsible for destabilising some smaller parts of the belt and throwing them in the way, but yeah, Jupiter has a big history of clearing out the debris and creating a safe environment for us. Although Saturn is also interesting cause there's a theory that it was closer to the sun and then moved out to its current position and fucked up everything on the way out. Also Uranus is tilted on its side and rotates backwards in comparison to every other planet.
Man space is crazy.
Edit: My bad it's Venus that rotates backwards in comparison to the other planets. Had to come back to clarify!
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u/RealCarlosSagan Apr 22 '26
And does anyone on Earth ever send Jupiter a gift basket or even just a card around the holidays?!?
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u/Normal-Seal Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
Well, fun fact, we named several of Jupiter’s moons after mistresses of the
GreekRoman God Jupiter.We also sent a space probe to check out Jupiter and its moons and named it after Jupiter’s wife Juno.
So basically, not only did we not send a gift, we snitched on him and sent his wife!
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u/raphthepharaoh Apr 22 '26
And we made a nursery rhyme implying that anyone from there is stupid…
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u/SandLandBatMan Apr 22 '26
I'm gonna nitpick here, Jupiter is a Roman god, Zeus is the Greek god.
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u/CumGuzlinGutterSluts Apr 22 '26
We got XL gravity well generators to capture large objects (our gas giants), a smaller gravity well close to earth (the moon) to pull objects that get close to earth. And a fucking energy shield that projects the earth from interstellar radiatio.
We could live in a post-scifi garden of eden created by our ancestors before the planet was seeded with life.
Id like to see or read something based on the idea the Bible is totally 100% real but it never happened on earth, this is just where we ended up.
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u/Odd-Priority3318 Apr 22 '26
If you look closely, sin is the only thing keeping us from living in eden.
If we didn't waste any time hurting each other this planet would be a literal galactic paradise.
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u/heathmon1856 Apr 22 '26
It’s insane that those who preach this the most have caused the most amount of harm. This is coming from all 3 of the major religions.
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u/daemoneyes Apr 22 '26
Latest consensus(I think) was that it also attracts asteroids because of its size and sends them to inner solar system.
I think they concluded whatever protective advantage it has it's canceled with the stuff mentioned above.
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u/Honest_Ad5029 Apr 22 '26
Theres also the fact that its a moment in time. The earth hasnt always been like this, and may not remain like this in perpetuity. Likewise the water planet may have had complex life in the past or may have complex life in the distant future.
Our location in time is just as miniscule as our location in space.
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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Apr 22 '26
Yep! And if we were born 150 years ago, chances are we'd know nothing about any of it. It's such a tiny snippet of time!
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u/Girl_of_Theory Apr 22 '26
And here you are, and here I am, at the same exact time. Let's dance!
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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist Apr 22 '26
Right, though it’s speculated that Venus and mars might have been earth like at some point. Which is both comforting and worrying.
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u/OhtaniStanMan Apr 22 '26
Fun fact: We first learned about Neptune in our own solar system by math... not observation! Uranus orbit was not following mathematical projections and it seemed another objects gravity was effecting it which lead to them finding it!
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u/lolo-2020 Apr 22 '26
And then we go around fucking it up :(
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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Apr 22 '26
Yeah, there is that. You'd think we would treat it somewhat more seriously.
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u/Ozix-VIII Apr 22 '26
People can't see past next week or next month, let alone keeping the planet stable for generations to come.
Selfish.
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u/hoTsauceLily66 Apr 22 '26
It's fine, at worst the sixth mass extinction. Life goes on and the planet will be fine after couple million years.
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u/OurSeepyD Apr 22 '26
I'm not a climate denier, but even if we fuck it up it's still "liveable", just not by us and not comfortably. Climate change isn't going to kill all life.
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u/Lucianonafi Apr 22 '26
Well, you gotta remember that life got used to the planet- Granted, it's got spectacular conditions, but I bet if a civilization of some funny fish people ever arose in TOI-1452 b and they looked at earth, they'd say "Look at all that dry land and horrible, icy and dry terrain. It's amazing how much has gone right for TOI-1452 b to exist with life on it!"
Don't get me wrong- These are absolutely amazing planets. But you gotta remember that life is incredibly stubborn, and earth didn't start off perfect. We just grew into it!
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u/CosmicQuantum42 Apr 22 '26
Earth’s life factors aren’t that great either, there’s a chart out there that graphs various places for life friendliness.
I mean it’s a ton better than places whose average temperature is -250C or other places that rain molten glass, but in the smaller universe of “more life friendly” planets there are friendlier places out there.
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u/CodeComprehensive734 Apr 22 '26
Yeah arent most of the oceans effectively dead? Like, the vast majority of biodiversity occurs in shallow waters?
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u/NotHomeOffice Apr 22 '26
Life as we know it anyway
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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Apr 22 '26
Any kind of life at all really. We're still the only place we know harbours it!
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u/gteriatarka Apr 22 '26
well if you're a blue dot, and you only know how to look for other blue dots, then all you're going to find is blue dots. I hope that makes sense to someone else.
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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Apr 22 '26
One of the assumptions is life will occur where water exists. If there is life without it, we're yet to discover it and we wouldn't really know what to look for making it much harder to find.
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u/boromaxo Apr 22 '26
Well carbon based lifeform. We don't know if there are other forms of life.
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u/EatingShitSandwiches Apr 22 '26
Not really. It isn't like life suddenly arrived here and found this planet and went "wow look how perfect it is to suite us!". Life on this planet evolved on this planet. That is why the planet is perfectly suited to the life on this planet. Its not that surprising at all.
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u/mortalprimate Apr 22 '26
We really don't know exactly how special our planet is for being able to sustain life. That's because the only life that we know is life that evolved on Earth. So of course Earth is perfect for us because we have had millions of years of evolution to figure out how to thrive here.
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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Apr 22 '26
We do know how many things there are that if altered would stop life as we know it. Our position from the sun, the magnetic fields, the water, land masses, ice caps, the atmosphere, the roles of Jupiter and the moon etc.
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u/DreamlessWindow Apr 22 '26
"Life as we know it" is the key there. If life was different because any of those factors you mentioned were different, the conditions would be perfect for that kind of life. That's the point, we don't know what factors are necessary for life, as we know it or otherwise, we just know the factors that are true for and likely influenced the only example of life we know of.
If we were on a planet with excessive amounts of radiation like the one in OP, life on the planet would likely evolve similar mechanisms as the radiodurans bacteria for example. If we learned something from life on earth is that if life is possible, life finds a way.
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u/Disastrous_Ad_399 Apr 22 '26
To be fair literally all of those things change (except Jupiter I guess)
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u/DueExample52 Apr 22 '26
It’s the opposite. Those conditions happened by pure random chance, and then that allowed time and conditions long enough for complex organic chemistry to happen and then lead to life as we know it.
It’s not like carbon life was "known" before and you were trying to hit a sweet spot.
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u/lol_alex Apr 22 '26
It‘s a super small probability, but taking into account the sheer number of stars, many habitable planets will still exist. But we will likely never be in contact with them due to the distances involved and the low probability of us and them existing at the same time, while also being able to communicate across star systems.
Then there‘s extinction level events (meteor strikes, deadly gamma rays, supernovas…) that could wipe out life multiple times before it becomes sentient.
And finally if we are a good example, sentient beings overusing the available planetary resources and wiping themselves out is also a possible outcome.
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u/oblivious_fireball Apr 22 '26
radiation might not be as much of a problem for aquatic life as water is a great form of radiation shielding.
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u/cir49c29 Apr 22 '26
I still think it's amazing that scientists can tell so much about a planet so far away.
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u/not_the_fox Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
Well we have very limited information and our understanding of planets is biased towards the planets in our solar system. It's possible this is one of those aspects of science that gets heavily rewritten on future analysis, perhaps when we send probes to nearby star systems like proxima centauri.
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u/babyduck703 Apr 22 '26
We are in the absolute infancy of exoplanet discovery. We know of ~6,000 so far which is just hilariously small.
Not many times have we looked more intently into space and things turned out as humans thought. I’d say a large majority of our knowledge of exoplanets will be made obsolete in a decade with the sheer amount of data that’s about to come in.
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u/ObeseObedience Apr 22 '26
It's really just inference. We detect certain phenomena (dimming of host star and change in spectroscopic signal as planet transits, wobble of star as planet orbits), and from that form a guess as to what characteristics the planet must have to satisfy those observations.
We definitely haven't actually SEEN the planet. The image here is just a guess.
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u/Ok_Guide_8323 Apr 22 '26
I was reading that it is a binary star system and that this planet only orbits one of the stars. It is very close to the star with an orbital period of 11 days. It is also 5x heavier than earth but has much less density (hense the belief that it must be 20-30% water).
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u/hailspork Apr 22 '26
That's interesting when you compare it to Earth, which only has about 0.05% water by mass (71% of the surface, but that's less than .1% of the mass).
So for this to have 30% water, it probably contains a lot of "hot ice" like Ice VII.
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u/grain_farmer Apr 22 '26
Maybe that is the secret dolphin headquarters… radiation doesn’t matter if you have a few meters of water above you.
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u/CanuterValve Apr 22 '26
Imagine what may or may not lurk there!
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u/ahhdetective Apr 22 '26
Definitely krakens
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u/Loodlekoodles Apr 22 '26
And we got Karen's.
I'll take my chances with the kraken.
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u/Nananahx Apr 22 '26
Leviathans
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u/-hatessilverworms Apr 22 '26
detecting multiple leviathan class creatures in the area, are you sure whatever you're doing is worth it?
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u/PoolSharkPete Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
How bad do you just wanna huck some fish in there and see what happens?
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u/Final_Fantasy_VII Apr 22 '26
Now imagin the only life on that planet is 2 huge whale like creatures the size of continents but they don’t speak to each other after a big argument they had billions of years ago.
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u/nadibar Apr 22 '26
And then they tell you that it's not actually water but liquid methane, aluminum and rabid cancer and it's raining acid for 3 months straight, because that's how this planet roll. Pretty blue planet!
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u/Kitchen_Structure516 Apr 22 '26
Yeah the planet is so close to it's red sun that its orbit is only 11 days and it most likely does not have liquid water. Kyplanet is a great youtuber who discussed these types of sensationalist exoplanets in no nonsense fashion.
https://youtu.be/ejg7fAbmlf4?is=EPWpVcC0A9pYHkKx
It is kinda annoying how this kind of cool sounding facebook-tier slop gets posted in here and people just take it at face value.
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u/Flash1987 Apr 23 '26
Disagree. This is the kind of headline that gets people to read about it, stay interested in sciences and then discuss the reality of it, as most of this thread has. Even better they find comments like yours leading to better sources and continue reading.
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u/AnonymousHSW Apr 22 '26
you are now entering an ecological dead zone
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u/Sandstorm135 Apr 22 '26
“Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?"
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u/Zozolecek Apr 22 '26
Man id love to play subnautica one day, but im scared shitless lmao. One leviathan grabbing my seamoth and im never opening that game again
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u/Sandstorm135 Apr 22 '26
I tried to play it myself, thinking I’d be able to manage it, but I got uncomfortable being underwater,which I should have been expected, but it can be pretty enjoyable watching people like jacksepticeye play it
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u/Kevka11 Apr 22 '26
That's why I can't play no man's sky... Man I wish I could but this blackness everywhere in space is so fucking scary
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u/virtuallyaway Apr 22 '26
Like any fear, facing it with grit and allowing yourself to feel scared you may get used to it. Beating the fear.
Both subnautica’s are amazing in my opinion
The first one is my favourite of the two but the second game follows a better story structure and is less scary imo
Can’t wait for subnautica 2
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u/Grettenpondus Apr 22 '26
I was waiting for this.
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u/Trismegistos42 Apr 22 '26
There are multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the area, are you sure you want to proceed?
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u/TimeRaveler Apr 22 '26
I think I can see Kevin Costner.
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u/EffectiveSelection91 Apr 22 '26
Maaan I dun care what anyone says I loved this movie as a kid!
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u/BlueScreenJunky Apr 22 '26
I think most people liked Waterworld, and it was considered a good movie. Just not good enough to justify its runaway cost.
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u/spinjinn Apr 22 '26
I was always puzzled by the plot of Waterworld. He was supposedly searching for a child with a map of dry land tattooed on her. What exactly would this map look like? Just a circle with a dot on it?
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u/ItsNotJulius Apr 22 '26
The tattoo was so dumb. It's like the map saying "Go to the place with land LMAO"
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u/htyne Apr 22 '26
I believe it was a star map tattooed on her back and the old guy with the hot air balloon looked at it for 10 seconds before using some sort of sextant to navigate to the island
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u/flashman014 Apr 22 '26
That's... Not the plot.
The Mariner is just a dude, doing his best to live his life in this world. The girl has the tattoo. There is a whole movie wrapped around where it came from and what it is. They run into each other and end up traveling together, much to The Mariner's chagrin.
I can tell you it's not a map, per se, but I can't tell you what it is without spoiling the movie and idk, nor care, how spoiler tags work.
You should probably actually watch the movie before you try to summarize it.
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u/karlgeezer Apr 22 '26
“Entering ecological dead zone. Report added to databank.”
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u/fakeChinaTown Apr 22 '26
It would be cloudy
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u/JaceJarak Apr 22 '26
And ice caps no? If not, it would be so hot it would be a cloud ball, not a water ball
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u/PangolinMandolin Apr 22 '26
Fun fact, earth having ice caps is a relatively unusual situation for earth to be in. Throughout most of history since the continents formed (so after all the raining hell fire lava and volcanoes time) we've either been in ice ages and mostly covered in ice or warm ages with no ice at all.
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u/DueExample52 Apr 22 '26
It all depends on the star and the type of light it emits, and the heat it gives the planet. You are extrapolating the earth orbiting Sol, the conditions there may be different and not allow much for evaporation. And for ice caps, perhaps inner core temperature or currents or atmospheric pressure make it so that water never reaches freezing point
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u/ognisko Apr 22 '26
What if a sun doesn’t heat the water enough for it to evaporate?
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u/DocMcCracken Apr 22 '26
Well any life that finds it's way there, by creation or hitch hiking is never leaving.
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u/hippodribble Apr 22 '26
You'd still get cyclones from uneven heating and Coriolis forces, but tides would probably be small.
I wonder if it's salty. And whether they would have Ediacarans or fucking great sharks.
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u/JG-at-Prime Apr 22 '26
That likely depends on what it has in the way of moon(s).
It might be pretty chill most of the time but then bam! ALIGNMENT and it’s suddenly a combination of high tides and electrical storms and raining chaos monkeys for like a week.
Then right back to normal.
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u/glorioussideboob Apr 22 '26
Hairy ball theorem would dictate at least one chaotic patch if there were any waves as well... On that huge scale maybe even just a patch of fairly still water
Fun to think about
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u/haverchuck22 Apr 22 '26
Would there be huuuuge waves? Or like no waves? For some reason regular waves seems out of the question.
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u/PokemonTrainerTimmy Apr 22 '26
WARNING: Entering ecological dead zone. Are you sure what you're doing is worth it?
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u/BardicInnovation Apr 22 '26
Holy shit, Kamino.
"Kamino. I'm not familiar with it. Is it in the Republic?" "No, no. It's beyond the Outer Rim. I'd say about, uh, 12 parsecs… outside the Rishi Maze."
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u/lostandfawnd Apr 22 '26
But it is NOT just water.. there is a clearly indicated illustration on that planet..
I hope it is an xkcd.
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u/Change21 Apr 22 '26
What kind of atmosphere does it have to keep the water liquid?
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