Strange alien world found to have water vapor and possibly rain clouds

NBC News ^ | Sept. 11, 2019, 1:24 PM CDT | By Chelsea Gohd

[Red Badger]

X-O Planet Ping!.....................

[Red Badger]

This artist's impression shows the planet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system.M. Kornmesser / ESA/Hubble

[cuban leaf]

DANG! They found my home planet! We thought you guys were at least a century from this. Bummer.

I’m gonna get called home early. I might as well start packing. Gotta join the armada.

[Track9]

Baltimore? Maybe Detroit

[Red Badger]

San Fransicko?..........................

[Go Gordon]

Water vapor? Do they not realize that water vapor is essentially carbon dioxide? Holy crap.

[Track9]

Yikes, I’ll that place is sticky.

[Red Badger]

If you think the sidewalks are bad, just wait till you go inside a theater!.....................

[LibWhacker]

Most of that planet, by volume, the vast majority is this gas envelope

The news just keeps getting worse and worse about this nightmare world. No, not a place for "us," even in the far distant future when we may be able to travel such distances.

[Tallguy]

Yeah, but I bet it doesn’t have Global Warming!

[21twelve]

I was surprised to learn that the rings of Saturn contain huge amounts of water. And that they lose the water as “rain” of sorts that falls to the planet.

In spite of having water, I think Saturn is probably still not going to become the vacation spot of the universe.

[Fresh Wind]

Gas giant...you mean like Jerry Nadler?

[mountainlion]

They found water so it must be a better place than here/s

[Vaquero]

If they had water in Frisco perhaps they could wash the $hit off the streets

[Red Badger]

He’s a GAS BAG!........................

[Robert DeLong]

While these researchers found evidence for liquid water clouds on K2-18 b, because of its lack of surface, rain wouldn't pool on the planet. As rainfall travels through the thick gas surrounding the planet's core, it would become so warm that the water would evaporate back up into the clouds where it would condense and fall again, Benneke said.

So in reality, they haven't found a planet with water. But beyond that, using one of the fastest space crafts ever developed, the Voyager 1 space probe, it would take roughly 1,736,809 years to travel 100 light years, traveling at its maximum velocity of 38,612 mph. We would still be 173,681 years away. The entire 1 way trip would be 1,910,490 years.

[Red Badger]

I’ll wait.......................

[Robert DeLong]

Well it should pass quickly for you once you go into that long deep sleep. 8>)

[JimRed]

Class M planets are the habitable ones...just ask Kirk, Picard or Janeway.