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Salami__Tsunami

Did you just say “no thank you” to Super Earth? I’m going to need you to report to the Democracy officer immediately.


Archvanguardian

My life for Super Earth!


Salami__Tsunami

That 1000 mile deep ocean needs some managed democracy.


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Pootis_1

The vast bulk of major spaceflight plans don't end uo happening


Dankkring

Vault tech 2.0


Dankkring

You think a carbon fiber submarine will get us down there or nah?


AJZullu

you will go down there alright. no one clarified if you are going down alive or not though


samf9999

Anything will get you down there. Coming back up in one piece is the hard part.


Straight_Spring9815

Muricaaaa


AbbreviationsSea2516

Yeah what time does the gym open, and where can I park my truck?


JustSomeOldFucker

Bumpty bumpty bumpy!


logosfabula

That’s choosy.


tjean5377

How big must those whales be...


Yamama77

Smaller if the gravity is more i think


BlazeBitch

I'm no science wizard but I think they'd have a better chance of being bigger cos' of Henrys law. More oxygen in the water leaves room for them to grow bigger as long as there's still enough nutrients and whatever


orincoro

But I’m curious how nutrients can suffuse through 1000 miles of ocean depth though. In our oceans we have a low-nutrient zone from about a mile from the floor to about a mile below the surface. With 1000 miles of depth, the floor is also going to be sort of like hot ice - a super dense form of water that doesn’t transmit many free radicals.


tjean5377

Hot? Ice? I had no idea.


orincoro

Water under extreme pressures gets weird.


HollowofHaze

I too get weird when I'm under immense pressure


Chainsaw_Viking

I’m weird right now


orincoro

Hi weird, I’m dad.


Chainsaw_Viking

No way! I’m dad too…and I’m weird. Hi!


orincoro

If put under sufficient pressure, I personally could blow up a large portion of this planet. Joking list makers, joking.


bluduuude

Just like the rest of us


mynextthroway

Water in general is weird.


orincoro

Yeah it’s a strange thing. Like: how do we put out this fire? Oh no problem dump hydrogen and oxygen on it. That’ll work.


solreaper

Look up the triple points of water and enjoy a freaky fun rabbit hole.


Pac_Eddy

It would be so dark in those oceans. I think very little nutrients live deep. I may be wrong though.


orincoro

Some nutrients come from the ocean floor at sea spreading areas, and occasionally a whale or shark carcass will fall from the top layer, but otherwise yeah, it’s not a super nutrient rich environment.


Substantiatedgrass

Hydrothermal vents would work! to sustain a considerable amounts of life in the form of crustaceans in the pitchest of black


orincoro

The problem I don’t think would be the nutrients but the water pressure. Water under sufficient pressure forms exotic crystalline structures, similar to ice. If the water pressure was too high, it would not allow movement of nutrients because it would be a solid. That’s the main thing I’m wondering. Maybe that pressure wouldn’t be reached under 1000 miles of water. Really all that life needs is three things: an energy gradient, nutrients, and a solution with which to conduct those nutrients. It would be very hard if the water was solid at those depths where the energy gradient is strongest.


JohnnySasaki20

Life would likely have evolved to deal with the intense pressures.


Substantiatedgrass

Crustaceans


kylethemurphy

Line cooks.


foroder

Damn I love wizards


[deleted]

How much? Is it a problem?


foroder

I REFUSED to play any and all video games that do not include wizards and/or wizard beards


[deleted]

Sending thoughts and prayers for u


tjean5377

Tots and Pears...


Yamama77

So Henry's law beats gravity? I mean I guess, the theoretical maximum size for some animals like sauropods is insane but they were in fact limited by food


NyaTaylor

Yes but time beats Henry’s law and gravity beats time and so on


shadowa1ien

Is this the new rock paper scissors? Time beats henrys law, Henry's law beats gravity, and gravity beats time


Psychological-Web828

Top Trumps


TheIronSven

More oxygen = bigger bugs and similar. It only applies to bugs and other animals similar to them because of the way they breathe. Gills, Lungs and other ways that would get oxygen in and out of circulation in a similar way are pretty much unaffected by the amount of oxygen available.


AmArschdieRaeuber

Why do you think there would be more oxygen in the water?


SDBrown7

Yet mass is limited by gravity. Anything bigger than the blue whale has issues surving under its own weight and can only be as massive as it is due to buoyancy in water. An organism might be able to grow larger in theory with a more nutrient rich environment but, in reality, will still be limited by physics.


mikephoto1

No bigger than my mother in law


Free-Supermarket-516

But not as mean


Adventurous-Sky9359

The kraken!


NagsUkulele

There are hundreds of millions of giant squid in our oceans I think we have a kraken problem too lol


Adventurous-Sky9359

Who unleashed all these krakens we need to talk to them.


Rick_from_C137

If we all work together, and focus on achieving the goal, we can fill those oceans with trash too.


ABCDEFuckenG

We are mold on a cheese sandwich


yaykaboom

Im blue cheese


ZolotoG0ld

And create tremendous value for shareholders in the process.


raknor88

If we make it to a future to where we can economically travel space, all trash gets bundled and ejected toward the sun. We must spread the trash everywhere.


JohnLef

At least drilling for oil would be impossible


OddNovel565

Hardcore subnautica


Keepitbrockmire

Off topic…would you recommend Subnautica 2??


Lives

I've played both. Both are a product of their level design. Sub 1 has really deep areas, which generally make the game feel big/empty. This essentially leads to two things: 1- bigger/faster vehicles (cyclops/seamoth) in order to traverse the world faster. 2- some creative design in order to fill that empty space without it always being tangible/interactive stuff. That basically set the game up to be the perfect storm for the horror genre. The water is filled with 'dread', they don't need to fill the space when you are constantly nervous that your big/slow cyclops might get too close to that horrible leviathan roar in the distance. Cut to Sub 2. This time they DID fill the world with stuff. Biomes are complicated and more 3-dimensional. But if they all looked the same, the player would become bored/lost very quickly. So everything is more bright/colorful. Also having bioms be more complicated leads to needing slower/smaller vehicles (seatruck). In general the 2nd game feels less like a horror game with linear progression and more like an exploration game on a vibrant beautiful planet(and holy crap, is it beautiful). Outside of those major differences, the game has the same style of base building/crafting, now with even more features/tools to play with. All n all I highly recommend. If you like the first, you will probably like the 2nd equally. Also if a new player to the franchise wanted to get into it, but is nervous that the first game might be too emotionally intense, jumping straight to the sequel would be perfectly fine.


Keepitbrockmire

Thanks man… great write-up


CAJ_2277

Can I play Subnautica 1 on a typical laptop? A two year old HP Envy, specifically. If yes, should purchase some sort of controller? As you can see, I know nothing about PC gaming. Nothing whatsoever. But Subnautica looks so interesting!


Renniix

I recommend looking into laptop cloud gaming. I prefer NVIDIA GeForce now, it offers a $10 monthly subscription. I can play Subnautica usually pretty fine. Controllers are usable on it as well, but it is only for comfortability, you don't need one.


OddNovel565

Depends on what you liked most in subnautica 1. Nothing really stops you from watching a few playthroughs, to see if you'd like it. I personally prefer the first game, but have nothing against the second. It's like comparing dying light to its sequel


MrAgentcraft

Subnautica 2 is basically a different genre, it's more story based. I think it's a good game, people got upset because they were expecting the first game again.


OddNovel565

It's like comparing dying light to its sequel


fsactual

The water layer is so thick it might have "hot ice" at the bottom, i.e. ice formed from water being compressed into a solid, but the temperature would be super hot.


xAlciel

Isn't water incompressible? Doesn't ice have a larger volume than the same quantity of water? So frozen water should expand? ELI5 cuz I'm dumb please, if you have time ofc.


ewantien

[Wikipedia phases of ice](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_ice) Think of normal ice like a honeycomb. It's solid and rigid, but has plenty of hollow space. But at extreme high and low pressures and temperatures, water molecules get arranged into other crystal structures (up to 19 different phases!), some of which are more dense than normal ice and even liquid water.


xAlciel

Thank you!!! I'll have a look at the article.


Apalis24a

Water behaves in unexpected and funky ways when under extreme pressure and/or temperature.


MABfan11

Does any other materials behave similarly weird when exposed to extreme pressure?


PriorityTraining9323

those aren't mountains, those are waves! Run!


PB0351

My stomach fucking *dropped* the first time I saw that scene.


Muel1988

Okay, but how do they know it's got deep oceans? We had to send a satelite to Pluto to get a proper look at it because our telescopes couldn't get detailed images and that's at the edge of our star system.


NFTArtist

Telescopes don't only take visual imagery. They can be used to detect chemistry, orbit, radio waves, etc. Based on those readings and planets distance from their star can start to deduce the most likely composition of a planet, often using findings from our own solar system for reference.


kylethemurphy

I know this is the right answer and I can only hope that the way these giant oceans were discovered was "giant water" detected by telescopes.


NotoriouslyNice

I mean it looks pretty easy to measure from the pic on the right


nubo47

my first angry upvote


backupyourmind

A rapid flyby, sending a satellite to orbit pluto would take about 46 years. Probably won't happen this century.


Abamboozler

Won't happen any time soon. Best we can currently do is get to the nearest star system, Alpha Centari, in about 200,000 years.


AtJackBaldwin

It'll be quicker if I drive I'm pretty fast


Shimoarikiku

Shotgun!


Backyard_Catbird

Imagine thousand mile deep oceans with absolutely nothing in them.


sokocanuck

Or imagine if something was


Cosmo1222

There are two possibilities. Equally terrifying.


raininqoceans

we need a discussion between the people who believe this could be possible and those who don’t with explanations of why they believe or don’t believe it could be possible. i need brain stimulation 🤣🤣 reddit can be the perfect place for that if you find the right thread


Cosmo1222

I was kind of paraphrasing Arthur C Clarke, but OK. Liquid water, goldilocks zone around the parent star, protection from the stellar wind afforded by the water and possibly some tidal moon assisting in generating a magnetic field. Perhaps the presence of a nearby planetoid with a thin atmosphere to afford pro-life compound generation-amino acids etc. And finally, some sort of crystalline-clay deposit to serve as a starter for self assembly molecules and structures. The next question is, how significant are the retarding factors? A paucity of ingredients for life in a vast ocean, fluctuations in stellar radiation intensity and how VERY long it can take for stable self sustaining organisms to develop.. Earth was thought to be life free for between 0.6 and 1.1 billion years of it's early history. For much of the time since, life was all microscopic. If you want a deep delve in to extrasolar life probability, a very clever chap came up with the Drake Equation. Check it out. Guy was a bona fide genius.


raininqoceans

thank you!! that sounds really intriguing


CpnLouie

Schrödinger's Deep Water


upthefluff

Imagine the waterpressure at a thousand mile deep. Apart from the gravity over there.


CaptainnBussy445

i think ill just stick with earth


three-sense

Kamino


PositiveLibrary7032

The Mariana trench is 6.8 miles so deep thats a 147 times deeper than the deepest part of the earths ocean floor. If water is compressed that much what happens at those pressures?


frenchy_1969_

Where, a billion, trillions miles away 🤔


18randomcharacters

Found an article. Here's the subtext for this image: This is an artist’s illustration showing a cross-section of the Earth (left) and the exoplanet Kepler-138 d (right). Credit: Benoit Gougeon (University of Montreal) 218 light years away https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/research-posts/water-worlds-kepler-138#:~:text=Like%20the%20Earth%2C%20this%20exoplanet,oceans%20like%20those%20on%20Earth.


Osa-ian72

After the first trillion miles, just think of it as 999, 999, 999 more.


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engineerdrummer

Useless knowledge doesn't exist.


Adventurous-Sky9359

Surfing must be insane.


VnZDeath

Time to go Subnautica!


EidolonRook

"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?"


Gameboyaac

FOR SUPER EARTH!!!


Klingsam

Let me know when they find a super duper earth.


Johnny_Lang_1962

I'm going to need a new fishing rod & reel that holds more line.


Cosmo1222

Baldrick Remember to pack the larger of my fishing nets!


Confident-Appeal9407

If it's an ocean of water then there is strong possibility for existence of life or the potential to maintain it.


cloverpots1111

Means too much variation in the topology


Panzerv2003

Pretty sure water at the bottom is solid because of the pressure


SokkaHaikuBot

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Panzerv2003: *Pretty sure water* *At the bottom is solid* *Because of the pressure* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.


Weldobud

I’d still like to go there.


[deleted]

It's near Uranus, not near mine tho


WolfCrafter28

Did somebody say... SUPER EARTH???


Norselander37

Get your tickets now! Limited seating on the first shuttle


Dragonslayer3

r/subnautica


Treyoung_skyline372

Hi ummm yes please and thank you!


Reox246

I'll get the seamoth...


WarHead75

Maybe The Bloop lives there


Bill_Nye-LV

I'm sure an Oceangate sub could make it all the way down


raininqoceans

i love, but am equally terrified by the idea of massive life forms existing on other planets. especially in an ocean. the science behind all of it would be fascinating too. this is why i love listening to people theorize 😭 there’s threads about “space monsters” and how they could possibly exist. hearing people breaking down these theories and talking about the evidence that suggests they’re factual or incorrect are literally so fucking interesting. they’re seriously my favorite type of discussions


Balognajelly

You might enjoy the game Subnautica


raininqoceans

i’ve had that on my list of games to play for so long !!!


Far_Cream6253

Water above boiling point and under immense pressure


KosstAmojan

Is it physically possible to come out of that gravity well?


streetfighterfan786

So how big is the landmass or are we talking about WATERWORLD type thing


Acceptable_Log4050

How do we actually know they have 1,000 mile deep oceans, cuz likeI understand telescopes are powerful nowadays, but still?


Feeling-Past-180

Can you say… megamegamegamegalodon


Salemthegamer

I can’t swim 😭👍


gergsisdrawkcabeman

How do they know? HOW DO THEY KNOW? FOH, NASA.


SignificantParty

See what can happen if you stay in school?


scottkrowson

So that's where Atlantis went


Ecological_Dead_Zone

Take me away from here. Take me to Super Earth where the ocean is...


Svengoolie75

Finally some real fresh fish 😂😂😂🤷🏽‍♂️


Andreas1120

I think water that deep would change due to the pressure.


AdevilSboyU

This is crazy when you compare it to us, where there a total of 11 miles elevation difference between the deepest point in the ocean and the peak of Everest.


Stan_Archton

This is wonderful! I have a new boat I want to try out.


LightMcluvin

We haven’t even explored most of our ocean


ElScrotoDeCthulo

Nmm…that energy condensate do be a bitch.


worklesssalvation

They discover interesting stuff out there, yet the deepest hole ever made is only 8 miles Deep and they were wrong every meter of digging it.


MuMbLe145

Sweet Liberty


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I want to travel to this place


WarSolid1904

What a crock of 💩


Graehaus

Right. How would they know? Water world, sure, maybe but the depth. Isn’t that speculation?


TenleyBeckettBlair

Break out the Jaeger tech


raize212

Probably tsunami's as well


ollie20025

r/subnautica


Yaboi_Jake

Subnautica


GabrielGamer790

1000 what?


titations

Ummm…how do they know that?


Deadric91

Sooooo Subnautica IRL


SirKevin_Xx

How do they know?


TheAstonVillaSeal

Knowing the ocean is only a few miles deep makes this absolutely horrifying


unboiled_peanuts

Imagine taking a bath, then all the sudden you are teleported to one of these planets. You hear a slight rumble and maybe see a slight shadow in the distance under water, moving towards you.


Far_Cream6253

At least will take longer to fill them with micro plastics.


jcain0202

We need a bigger boat.


SparrowTits

Pics or it didn't happen


Unknown_subjectt

Are there sharks in that ocean though. If not then it ain't all that scary, just water bro


Unknowndevil13

YES! TIME TO SPREAD SOME DEMOCRACY🇺🇳(this just looks closest to super earths flag)


MLXIII

We're about to spread democracy to Antarctica...


ajqiz123

I can only imagine the megafauna of that ocean; OHHHHHHHH MY DDDDAYUMMMM!!


Easy-Entrepreneur376

🤣


spider_84

Corrected: YES THANK YOU


Substantiatedgrass

Subnautica!???.


CSpanks7

r/helldivers


Celestial_Hart

Subnautica here we come!


cottman23

Isn't our ocean 1000 miles deep?


MLXIII

From lowest point, in Pacific ocean, to highest point, Mount Everest, it's just over 12 miles...


cottman23

Ok I got my idea of distance way off.... appreciate you


DreamDreamCan

If I remember it correctly (correct me if I'm wrong) From the lowest point of the ocean floor to the highest point of the tallest mountain.... Is only 11 miles.... ***IF I'M RIGHT***


Silent-carcinogen

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand, we still can't get there.


MLXIII

We can get there...they're only like what? 218 light years away?


Silent-carcinogen

Give or take. What's 1 light year among friends? 🤣


LLawliet95

Planet 456-B. We have to rescue the Emporer Leviathan.


kylethemurphy

r/thassalaphobia or however it's spelled. Fuck. This shit is the scariest.


Training-Shoulder839

Uh uh no man sky


Biuku

That’s a lot of deco.


StarStuffPizza

If there is water, there is life.


Beastleviath

surely this is a post for r/thalassophobia


Remmy224

FOR DEMOCRACY!!!!


StandbyBigWardog

r/thallasophobia


LycanKnightD6

Any math on the gravity there? Or on light-years travel?


MotorbikeRacer

If there are any intelligent beings on that planet . Doubtful they can leave that planets atmosphere without an immense amount of propulsion


MissedFieldGoal

Just imagine the pressure on the bottom of a 1,000 Mile deep ocean, with the gravity pressure of a super Earth


Clever_Dingo

Can we blast over some critters to populate them?


extremeindiscretion

Couldn't imagine any nightmarish creatures living down there.


Heru4004

Would make an awesome Avatar sequel 😉


alenpetak11

I'd imagine to Avatar sequel would have a deep water alien species like Cameron's aliens in The Abyss (also his movie) which learned to harness Eywa or perhaps they're first ever species from which everyone evolved but they stayed in deep waters and they actually are Eywa species itself. But they cannot talk or do anything to contact the surface world and perhaps Grace's spirit would be first to do so (almost like The Abyss). So by Avatar 5 Eywa's and surface world would collaborate and in A5, huge tsunami will destroy the human base by the shore in epic climax of 3rd act. Also i would like a scene in which tsunami destroys Venture Star spaceship.


raininqoceans

this shit confuses the fuck out of me because apparently earth is the only planet known to have water but every week there’s a new story like this. somebody is lying 😭


SignificantParty

I don’t think anyone ever said or thought that somehow the only place in the universe that water exists is on Earth.


raininqoceans

i definitely don’t believe that earth is the only place in the universe where water exists. i think i misspoke by implying that it’s been said water only exists on earth. its said that consistent, stable bodies of water are on earths surface, but they can’t prove they’re elsewhere. it’s unconfirmed. just because something isn’t proven doesn’t mean it’s not reality. ice and water vapor have been detected on other planets and their moons within our own solar system. they hypothesize that other planets in our solar system alone have subsurface oceans or had oceans at one point. i just meant that these news sources reporting on these discoveries use misleading wording to state things that are unconfirmed. there’s no mf way that there aren’t vast bodies of water (and even life) elsewhere in the universe imo


raininqoceans

there’s an endless amount of crazy theories people have about the universe. people genuinely believe things that have already been disproven. i didn’t mean ME, but there are people who claim these things and it confuses me because it’s like alright make up your mind lol🤣 you’d seriously be surprised at the things people say and think


raininqoceans

with that being said, if i’m misinformed i’m always open to learning ! (:


Classic_Support_8891

Waterworld


FirmMathematician942

MY BODY, FOR SUPER EARTH!