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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. ;)
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!
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!