Gregor Vukasinovič
Homesick
...and I don't even know to where. But there'd be water. Lots and lots of water. Seriously, sometimes I wonder if I'm a merfolk trapped in the wrong body. I almost feel more at home in the water than on land.
That makes me wonder, what happens if you placed an enormous amount of water, picture an Earth-sized raindrop, in space orbiting a star. It would form a planetary body, obviously, and at the surface there'd be water, or ice, depending on the energy influx from said star.
Only, what would happen further down, where the pressure rises and with that, temperature? Would it try to evaporate? Or be crushed solid? And if it evaporated, would the steam rise to the surface and form an atmosphere, while turning the bottomless sea into a tumultuous broiling bottomless pot on a stove made of nothing but more water? And as we go deeper still, would the conditions be so intense that water just can't exist anymore and split into hydrogen and oxygen? And would these be trapped down there or rise to the surface and out into space to be blown away by the stellar wind, and the whole thing just evaporates away? As a scientist, there's only one valid way to find out - which is, of course, asking ChatGPT.
Homesick
...and I don't even know to where. But there'd be water. Lots and lots of water. Seriously, sometimes I wonder if I'm a merfolk trapped in the wrong body. I almost feel more at home in the water than on land.
That makes me wonder, what happens if you placed an enormous amount of water, picture an Earth-sized raindrop, in space orbiting a star. It would form a planetary body, obviously, and at the surface there'd be water, or ice, depending on the energy influx from said star.
Only, what would happen further down, where the pressure rises and with that, temperature? Would it try to evaporate? Or be crushed solid? And if it evaporated, would the steam rise to the surface and form an atmosphere, while turning the bottomless sea into a tumultuous broiling bottomless pot on a stove made of nothing but more water? And as we go deeper still, would the conditions be so intense that water just can't exist anymore and split into hydrogen and oxygen? And would these be trapped down there or rise to the surface and out into space to be blown away by the stellar wind, and the whole thing just evaporates away? As a scientist, there's only one valid way to find out - which is, of course, asking ChatGPT.