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Strange Alien World Made of "Hot Ice"
David Shiga writes "The smallest planet ever seen passing in front of its parent star is a strange world of scorching hot ice, astronomers say. The 22-Earth-mass planet has been known since 2004, but recent observations of it passing in front of its parent star have allowed them to learn much more about it. It appears to be made mostly of water, but not in liquid form. The planet orbits so close to its parent star that its surface is a broiling 300 C, keeping any water there in vapor form. Beneath the atmosphere, the water is even hotter, but is at such high pressure because of the planet's large mass that it stays in a solid, "hot ice" form."
The inside of this planet is a solid core of vanilla ice cream at tremendous temperature and pressure. Although heated above its normal melting point, it is kept in a frozen solid state by the sheer mass of molten hot chocolate lying on top of it.
We're doomed!
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As long as they don't devise the machine capable of making Ice IX, it's all good.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Must be hell frozen!
That item is available at your local drug store. ;)
this just in, the makers of Icy Hot sue the rogue planet for DMCA copyright infringement via slashdot's digital summary of the material known as 'hot ice'.
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Finally, the "Hot Hail" in Flash Gordon makes sense. Ming was just showering us with some hot ice!
It's part of the propaganda for when we start invading other worlds. We'll just tell all the sheeple that there are illegal aliens on those planets that must be stopped.
If you don't have anything worth saying, please don't write a song about it.
Okay, we have heard that you can be in either:
1. Hot water, or,
2. on thin ice ,
But what should humanity make of being on or in HOT ICE?
NASA, please provide us with an answer. A solution to this dilemma cannot wait.
I have got to call the prom queen from highschool, because apparantly hell *CAN* freeze over.
--Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum, non erravi pernicose!
the Z-machine at Sandia is able (at least) to form Ice VII.
Psh. If you ask me, the Ice series has gone downhill since Ice III. They really started phoning it in in Ice IV, and Ice V and VI were damn near unwatchable.
Are you kidding? Ice VI was possibly the best of the series, and Ice VII was a real breakthrough. Full 3-D and just amazing cutscenes. Ice X was too girly, though, and Ice X-2 was worse.
Chris Mattern
Jack: Here's the new material "New planet made of vapour under pressure".
Chief: Damn it, that sounds dry. We need to get Bob, our marketing-slash-copywriter-slash-pr guy fix it a little.
Jack: But it...
Bob: Yep, ok.. Lemme think, vapour under pressure, how much pressure? So much that it's the same density as hard material
Jack: Lots of pressure, but to be hard it...
Bob: Good enough for me. So it's kinda like ice, isn't it.. "New planet made of hard vapour", wait.. I got it "New planet made of hot ice"!
Chief: Amazing!
Jack: It's totally not "ice" dude...
Bob: Whatever.. but it's still too pedestrian, "new planet". We gotta hint there's something more interesting on there, "alien planet", right.. "alien world". Sounds more epic. "Alien world made of hot ice!".
Chief: Perfect! We want to stress how odd all of this is. You know, not your run-of-the-mill hot ice planet though. Put "strange" in front, strange stuff is interesting.
Bob: "Strange alien world made of hot ice!"
Chief: Perfect!!! Start the presses.
Jack: Sigh...
This reminds me of an "experiment" I did when I was 4 or 5. My mom would always tell me to use cold water when filling the ice tray. One day I decided to make hot ice by using hot water. Alas, I failed but it's good to know I was on to something!
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
My ass still hurts from the last time I got one of those.
Got into a verbal with Earth science teacher, in 9th grade (he was also wrestling coach). He insisted that one side of the moon was always dark. I even used the orrery to show that the 'darkside' of the moon also gets light. Man, he didn't like that one. Who knew a science geek could get a D in Earth Science? /in gym, got paired up with kid on the wrestling team. Ouch!
I drank what? -- Socrates
I'm not a flat-earther
Burn the heretic!