Timeline for How might a life-sustaining planet exist with an "atmospheric ocean"?
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| Jul 31, 2017 at 18:44 | answer | added | Ash | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 19:04 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 17:24 | answer | added | Sherwood Botsford | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 12:12 | comment | added | userLTK | You might find this related. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical_fluid The problem is, it requires high temperature which might be very difficult for all but extremophile life. Maybe (and I'm not sure), you could work your way around that with gonzo high pressure and lower temperature, but a planet would need hundreds of billions, maybe trillions of years to cool down enough. The inside of planets are hot as a result of the potential energy of coalescing. | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 11:15 | answer | added | a4android | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 7:09 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 28, 2017 at 6:22 | answer | added | JDługosz | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 5:20 | answer | added | BobTheAverage | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 4:50 | comment | added | jamesqf | Gas doesn't really do that. But you could perhaps have a liquid ocean and gaseous atmosphere of the same (or similar) compounds, say hydrocarbons, like a more extreme version of Saturn's moon Titan. | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 4:39 | answer | added | Ashwani Tanwar | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 3:11 | answer | added | Machavity | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 2:57 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | On Earth we have liquid water in the sea, and vapor water in the atmosphere. And Earth sustains life. What are you missing? | |
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| Mar 28, 2017 at 1:10 | history | asked | ChrisBKreme | CC BY-SA 3.0 |