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If you had high pressure (really high pressure, >73 atmospheres) and slightly high temperatures (>30 C), with a carbon dioxide atmosphere (which is feasible), you would get an atmosphere that is made up of supercritical carbon dioxide, which is a weird gas-like liquid.

The atmosphere of Venus is supercritical carbon dioxide and nitrogen, while water planets would have possible oceans of supercritical water.

Though I somewhat doubt that people could survive in supercritical carbon dioxide, even with breathing apparatus... plants might evolve to thrive in it, though. There is a paper discussing the properties of supercritical carbon dioxide and the possibility of alien life in it: (WARNING: pdf)

ADDED AS AN EDIT: Whoa! I just found out that it is possible for divers to adapt to pressures of 100 atmospheres! So with a protective suit and breathing apparatus (maybe one that can extract oxygen dissolved in the supercritical carbon dioxide -- it readily dissolves water and oxygen) you could hang out in the stuff. And 30C is just in the high 80F.

If you had high pressure (really high pressure, >73 atmospheres) and slightly high temperatures (>30 C), with a carbon dioxide atmosphere (which is feasible), you would get an atmosphere that is made up of supercritical carbon dioxide, which is a weird gas-like liquid.

The atmosphere of Venus is supercritical carbon dioxide and nitrogen, while water planets would have possible oceans of supercritical water.

Though I somewhat doubt that people could survive in supercritical carbon dioxide, even with breathing apparatus... plants might evolve to thrive in it, though. There is a paper discussing the properties of supercritical carbon dioxide and the possibility of alien life in it: (WARNING: pdf)

If you had high pressure (really high pressure, >73 atmospheres) and slightly high temperatures (>30 C), with a carbon dioxide atmosphere (which is feasible), you would get an atmosphere that is made up of supercritical carbon dioxide, which is a weird gas-like liquid.

The atmosphere of Venus is supercritical carbon dioxide and nitrogen, while water planets would have possible oceans of supercritical water.

Though I somewhat doubt that people could survive in supercritical carbon dioxide, even with breathing apparatus... plants might evolve to thrive in it, though. There is a paper discussing the properties of supercritical carbon dioxide and the possibility of alien life in it: (WARNING: pdf)

ADDED AS AN EDIT: Whoa! I just found out that it is possible for divers to adapt to pressures of 100 atmospheres! So with a protective suit and breathing apparatus (maybe one that can extract oxygen dissolved in the supercritical carbon dioxide -- it readily dissolves water and oxygen) you could hang out in the stuff. And 30C is just in the high 80F.

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If you had high pressure (really high pressure, >73 atmospheres) and slightly high temperatures (>30 C), with a carbon dioxide atmosphere (which is feasible), you would get an atmosphere that is made up of supercritical carbon dioxide, which is a weird gas-like liquid.

The atmosphere of Venus is supercritical carbon dioxide and nitrogen, while water planets would have possible oceans of supercritical water.

Though I somewhat doubt that people could survive in supercritical carbon dioxide, even with breathing apparatus... plants might evolve to thrive in it, though. There is a paper discussing the properties of supercritical carbon dioxide and the possibility of alien life in it: (WARNING: pdf)

If you had high pressure (really high pressure, >73 atmospheres) and slightly high temperatures (>30 C), with a carbon dioxide atmosphere (which is feasible), you would get an atmosphere that is made up of supercritical carbon dioxide, which is a weird gas-like liquid.

The atmosphere of Venus is supercritical carbon dioxide and nitrogen, while water planets would have possible oceans of supercritical water.

Though I somewhat doubt that people could survive in supercritical carbon dioxide, even with breathing apparatus...

If you had high pressure (really high pressure, >73 atmospheres) and slightly high temperatures (>30 C), with a carbon dioxide atmosphere (which is feasible), you would get an atmosphere that is made up of supercritical carbon dioxide, which is a weird gas-like liquid.

The atmosphere of Venus is supercritical carbon dioxide and nitrogen, while water planets would have possible oceans of supercritical water.

Though I somewhat doubt that people could survive in supercritical carbon dioxide, even with breathing apparatus... plants might evolve to thrive in it, though. There is a paper discussing the properties of supercritical carbon dioxide and the possibility of alien life in it: (WARNING: pdf)

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If you had high pressure (really high pressure, >73 atmospheres) and slightly high temperatures (>30 C), with a carbon dioxide atmosphere (which is feasible), you would get an atmosphere that is made up of supercritical carbon dioxide, which is a weird gas-like liquid.

The atmosphere of Venus is supercritical carbon dioxide and nitrogen, while water planets would have possible oceans of supercritical water.

Though I somewhat doubt that people could survive in supercritical carbon dioxide, even with breathing apparatus...