"Waterworld" discovered!

[shavedape]

http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/4584/hubble-reveals-a-new-type-of-planet

Observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have added a new type of planet to the mix. By analyzing the previously discovered world GJ1214B astronomer

Zachory Berta (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and colleagues proved that it is a water world enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere.

(ETA: The issue with the system automatically making extra quotes out of highlighted text is still happening. I have tried to no avail to fix the issue. I've even retyped the text in regular type and it still gets broken up.)

 

[Stonelesscutter]

Now all they have to do is find Kevin Costner.

 

[Bluce Ree]

What good is a planet with an average temperature of 400° and all the water is just steam?

 

[mzzz]

Viable steam powered turbine energy, thermal energy, etc. Shielded habitats. Maybe even floating habitats due to all the heat flows. Pillaging, pirating, whoring. The possibilities are endless really. Sometimes I think our imaginations are limited to our external stimulus, would be interesting to live on different planets with different environments, more driving mechanisms for various and interesting technology due to different environments.

 

[Bluce Ree]

Viable steam powered turbine energy, thermal energy, etc. Shielded habitats. Maybe even floating habitats due to all the heat flows. Pillaging, pirating, whoring. The possibilities are endless really. Sometimes I think our imaginations are limited to our external stimulus, would be interesting to live on different planets with different environments, more driving mechanisms for various and interesting technology due to different environments.

Yeah, but, what you're describing is no different than colonizing any other uninhabitable world with a viable surface and exploitable resources except that it's hot enough to make the working environment almost prohibited. In the end, it would just be another sheltered colony in a closed, isolated environment. We have plenty of that in our own solar system that may even have water.

 

[shavedape]

Yeah, but, what you're describing is no different than colonizing any other uninhabitable world with a viable surface and exploitable resources except that it's hot enough to make the working environment almost prohibited. In the end, it would just be another sheltered colony in a closed, isolated environment. We have plenty of that in our own solar system that may even have water.

Pfft! We'll just have the Weyland-Yutani corporation terraform it, silly.

 

[Bluce Ree]

Pfft! We'll just have the Weyland-Yutani corporation terraform it, silly.

Still need a giant scifi/magic rocket to push the planet's orbit a little further out into the star's "habitable zone" to get it out of that oven-state.

 

[Stonelesscutter]

Still need a giant scifi/magic rocket to push the planet's orbit a little further out into the star's "habitable zone" to get it out of that oven-state.

A rocket? How old-school. By the time we get to that planet we'll have tractorbeams.

 

[Bluce Ree]

A rocket? How old-school. By the time we get to that planet we'll have tractorbeams.

The only thing a tractor beam against a planet will do is pull your as to the ground.

 

[Stonelesscutter]

The only thing a tractor beam against a planet will do is pull your as to the ground.

Not if we tractor ourselves to another object that's even heavier than the planet we're hauling.

 

[Bluce Ree]

Not if we tractor ourselves to another object that's even heavier than the planet we're hauling.

Have you ever tried tying yourself between two trucks going in either direction?

 

[SciphonicStranger]

Have you ever tried tying yourself between two trucks going in either direction?

This sounds like an excellent experiment.

 

[Stonelesscutter]

Have you ever tried tying yourself between two trucks going in either direction?

Our future advanced technology shall make short work of the forces of nature.

 

[Bluce Ree]

Our future advanced technology shall make short work of the forces of nature.

Magic notwithstanding, right Mr. Potter?

 

[Stonelesscutter]

Magic notwithstanding, right Mr. Potter?

Ofcourse. If the planet uses magic against us there's no way we could win.

 

[Bluce Ree]

Ofcourse. If the planet uses magic against us there's no way we could win.

You have that backwards. If we used magic against the planet we'd win.

 

[Stonelesscutter]

You have that backwards. If we used magic against the planet we'd win.

Yes, unless the planet was a more powerful sorceror. But who knows magic?

 

[SciphonicStranger]

Yes, unless the planet was a more powerful sorceror. But who knows magic?

Aren't you supposed to be tying yourself to trucks?

 

[Bluce Ree]

Aren't you supposed to be tying yourself to trucks?

 

[Stonelesscutter]

Aren't you supposed to be tying yourself to trucks?

Trucks are no match for me.

Besides I had schoolstuff to take care of.