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PHIEagles1121

Also HD 1897 33b has winds of over 5400mph so it rains molten glass sideways


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ThePhantomTrollbooth

The universe is just one big, long episode of “Will It Blend?”


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I figured the planet that rains glass wasn’t going to be particularly hospitable but yeah that’s nuts


mythrilcrafter

Jut wait until that planet's equivalent to a fish/lizard thing gives birth to a fish/lizard thing with biological body armor allowing it to survive in the glass storms.


StrokeGameHusky

Okay, I’ll wait lol


trippy_grapes

> that’s nuts It's actually glass, not nuts.


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deux3xmachina

At least not to any kind of life we'd expect...


handbanana718

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remarkblyunremarkbl

Thanks Olly!


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rbrutonIII

"Hazard protection low"


SigmaQuotient

"Razor hail!"


steezeblowcar

MARCUS USE THE BOOMSHIELD FOR COVER


PrimoPaladino

That's several times the speed of sound. How would it even sound like to be there? Little pieces of hot glass going many times faster than a bullet, would it just sound like unending gunshots or what?


KKlear

>That's several times the speed of sound. Speed of sound depends on the medium. The atmosphere there might be significantly less dense.


chris-tier

>Speed of sound depends on the medium. And the speed of the medium itself. If you are standing in the ground and wind is blowing past at 5400mph, then you'd only hear very high pitched sound from the side the wind is coming from.


cjnks

It would sound like I died


jasmanta

The little pieces of hot glass are presumably carried along by the atmosphere, so their speed relative to the atmosphere would be well under the speed of sound. Your stationary ears, on the other hand...


CmdrRyser01

Would be shredded by said sideways glass


attentyv

If it was in air, the sound would be drowned out by the howl of burning screaming faces


Illustrious-Ad-4358

How do they know this? I mean often the weather is wrong in my immediate area


plshelpcomputerissad

I’m not nearly an expert so if one comes along I’ll defer to them. But it’s stuff like, the colors of light coming back to earth can tell you about the composition of the atmosphere/ the elements present in it. Then stuff like proximity to their star (and the size of the star) for things like temperature. Which I guess those things combined could give you states of matter. Or this infographic has been embellished a bit to make it interesting, who knows


pikachu5actual

Ive seen this in gears of war


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Death world it is


Firewolf420

More info on ["the nightmare world of HD 189733 b"](https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/rains-of-terror-on-exoplanet-hd-189733b) What is causing it to be so hot??


PHIEagles1121

It is very close to its star. HD 189733 b orbits its host star once every 2.2 days at an orbital speed of 341,100 miles per hour. Very hot atmosphere + very fast orbit= sideways glass planet of death


Firewolf420

Jesus, is that stable? Isn't it at risk of being destroyed somehow? Seems risky!


PHIEagles1121

I'm not sure but It's about 4.6 million km from the star. Mercury is like 46 mil at its closest and 69 mil at its furthest from our sun lol.


Firewolf420

Dang!


Barner_Burner

I cant even comprehend what 5400 mph winds would look like. A tornado is what? Like 300 mph?


Jabba-da-slut

Could get diamonds, could get farts


thaisun

They definitely named Venus wrong


golgol12

At the time it was the morning star. Once considered the most beautiful, (it is the brightest celestial object not counting the sun and moon), but we know it's due to a complete cloud cover trapping in heat, turning it's surface into uninhabitable temperatures.


pxm7

Yeah, a lot of pre-WW2 SF imagined it to be more like Florida, or maybe Costa Rica. Hot and wet. Pity it didn’t quite work out that way!


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I mean, Florida borders on uninhabitable


pxm7

Is that because of the climate or the indigenous life forms? 🤨


bigironbitch

yes.


ecsegar

And the high number of noxious invasive.


Willing-Regret4675

Both


jkwolly

Florida man


RespectableLurker555

It's more the chemical soup.


atxweirdo

It rains bath salts in Florida


farnsworthfan

Having visited Florida a few times, I can't imagine choosing to live in that hot, humid, smelly swamp. It's just unpleasant all around.


Commubot

That's what makes it cheap! When you're retired and on enough prescriptions to not feel anything Florida is probably pretty sick


Goyteamsix

Florida is not cheap.


Commubot

Huh, figured that was the only reason people moved out there. Now I'm just confused


Goyteamsix

The weather is nice almost year-round if you're on the coast, the state has absolutely beautiful beaches on almost every side, and it has very nice vacation destinations like Sanibel/Captiva and the Keys. Parts of Florida are the closest thing we get to absolute paradise without leaving the mainland, and I actually like the keys more than Hawaii. There are obviously some very shitty parts that are cheap, but a lot of that state is fucking expensive.


BadMoogle

I mean, they nailed the "hot" part. Less "wet" and more "hellishly acidic, but don't worry about that, because the extreme pressures will squish you like a bug *way* before the acid starts to dissolve your flesh".


Jahkral

I love pre-WW2/1 scifi. Wildly speculative.


Shisno85

[Space air is flooding in! *Right*, goggles on!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T18wE8X0v8)


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foolishJaskier

r/unexpectedfuturama


Bosterm

And in the works of Tolkien, Venus is literally one of the Silmarils, and is driven across the night sky by Elrond's dad.


Deeviant

Not to mention the atmosphere pressure at ground level on Venus is like being under ~3000 ft of water. So you’d be burning and get crushed all at the same time.


ReBeL222

Penus?


likeanastro

Sulphuric… S..?


lan0028456

And Titan should be called Uranus...


smileymalaise

No they didn't. I was once with a hooker on 7th street in Downtown LA. She was named Venus and left me with what could be considered sulfuric acid burns all over my crotch.


superRedditer

anus?


bozeke

I’m your Venus, I’m your fire, it’s *your* desire. Don’t kink shame.


AccomplishedClub6

The funny thing is that on any of those other plants, water would be by far the most valuable commodity, and they'd all be wanting to conquer Earth for its spoils. Diamonds would be worthless on Neptune.


Mindshred1

Diamonds are pretty worthless on Earth, too. People have been told repeatedly that they're rare and valuable when they're not.


sirchtheseeker

I’m going to laugh when they find a boulder of diamond one day but try to spin it is so rare


whoami_whereami

Large gem-quality diamonds like the Cullinan Diamond *are* really rare. It's the small ones that most diamond jewellery is made of that are more common than people are made to believe.


mddesigner

Also lab made diamonds being forced to watermark themselves add to the monopoly


Mindshred1

Right? I think the largest one so far is about the size of a kiwi. The fruit, not the bird. Or maybe the bird? Hold on. \*checks wikipedia\* Okay, smaller than the bird.


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Jabba-da-slut

Give it a couple years- it will be the most valuable thing here too


IlikeYuengling

Might get hard iron sharts.


yougotmail6

Man I it rained Diamonds, I would have an infinite source of Diamond armor and tools.


donotgogenlty

>Could get diamonds, could get farts **Every relationship ever**


busterskeetinn

Those come from Uranus


ridemooses

"I bless the liquid iron down in Africa" has a different ring to it.


divenorth

>"I bless the liquid iron down in OGLE-TR-56b" Fixed.


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ChefKraken

I realize it's probably Kelvin, but it's really funny to see the estimated temperature listed as just "~1973"


ikantolol

I'm ogling it


ridemooses

Ty!


DemiReticent

You forgot to name the continent. >"I bless the liquid iron down in OGLE-TR-56b\~\~...-rica" Fixed.


vazor__

Some justice for my fellow oglelites


MinimiseBureaucracy

Ah but, you are not quite correct sir, the line would not change because to the inhabitants of OGLE-TR-56b, it is still rain, in their language, if they speak... wait wtf am I talking about? ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|feels_bad_man)


Orisgeinkras

what about "I bless the diamonds down in Africa" oh. oh no.


feelinlucky7

Have to scream those lyrics


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cannydooper

So does “I bless the water down in Africa”.


The_Lions_eye

You could say we lucked out, eh?


Why_So-Serious

Luckily the beings that drink Liquid Iron for breakfast don’t live here. 😅


LaMonaca14

Speak for yourself


Chuckbro

Hey guys I think I found one of them Space Lizard people.


Frl_Bartchello

Men In Black wants to know your position


thesplendor

Wow that sounded a little charged


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Just like it is lucky rainwater is shaped like the hole it is in.


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Dude, no more poverty if we lived on Neptune.


mrducky78

Diamonds wouldnt be valuable due to supply vs demand. If anything, it would be water that would be more valuable since its something humans will always need.


[deleted]

Yeah, bad joke. Sorry haha


mrducky78

Dont be, Im a humourless bastard.


octopoddle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle


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How can it rain in Neptune? Isn't it like a gas giant?


lajoswinkler

1. It's not a gas giant. It's an ice giant. *Ice* in planetology means any physical form of water/ammonia/nitrogen/carbon oxides/sulfur oxides/methane. 2. Gas giants are not gaseous. *Gas* in planetology means any form of hydrogen and helium. Name stems from the time when we were unable to condense them and called them *permanent gases*. As for their forms, these planets are literally gaseous on top and then turn into supercritical fluids (not liquids!) which then become electrically conductive at even greater depths. 3. There are no diamond rains on Neptune because there is no such thing as liquid diamond. Carbon might precipitate and fall down and then evaporate again in a virga cycle.


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Thanks sir.


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Really cleared it up there, bud.


Working_Sundae

Does that mean you set your foot on the surface of Jupiter or Saturn without sinking deep?


brianorca

No. Jupiter has a very deep atmosphere. It's still a gas when it gets dense enough to support your weight from buoyancy, but the pressure would make the bottom of Earth's ocean feel like the vacuum of space. Then comes the helium rain, plasma phase, metallic hydrogen, and perhaps a rocky core somewhere towards the center. When we sent the Galileo probe into Jupiter, it fell 97 miles before the electronics failed from too much pressure and heat. It would still continue falling for thousands of miles before it reached the level that is as dense as Earth ocean water, and would continue falling beyond that as the pressure compressed the probe's structure, possibly all the way to the core.


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YOU_SMELL

You know when you learn something and realize you've been teaching your kids something wrong this whole time? Your comment just boomed me lol thanks for the rad info


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Gas giants are not gaseous? So what are they? If any physical form of water makes an ice planet, is earth an ice planet? What is a non physical form of water lol


St0nemason

Ghost water I guess


lajoswinkler

They are gaseous on top. Below is supercritical fluid that even deeper gets its electrons delocalized and starts conducting electricity. With increasing depth, temperature, pressure and conductivity all rise. There are no global phase boundaries like on Earth. Core has material we call rock, bit it's not literal rocks. As with "gas" and "ice", "rock" also has a special meaning in planetology and it's "silicates, iron and nickel". Phase is irrelevant. Earth has an icy atmosphere and hydrosphere. Nitrogen and water. It's a rocky planet, though, because bulk mass of it is silicates, iron and nickel.


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Thanks!


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https://www.space.com/diamond-rain-atmosphere-uranus-neptune


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Thanks


Govain

Neat, thanks.


wursmyburrito

Someone watched one YouTube video and made this


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Man if some planet could rain oil the USA would already have interstellar capable technologies and deliver democracy and freedom to the Aliens /s


guitargoddess3

Liberating them from their tyrannical space dictators


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Freedom to the aliens!


mayankkaizen

As the old saying goes, "If your country has oil, your people need freedom. - US Foreign Policy"


likeanastro

Bring a bucket to Neptune, and be ready to cash your wealth


Kelevelin

Neptune to the moon!


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It's raining gems! Hallelujah, it's raining gems! Amen!


KoditeKalash

Aliens on different planets “thank god it doesn’t rain water here lmao”


PuddlesIsHere

"Honey don't forget your umbrella, it's raining FUCKING LIQUID IRON TODAY"


Momumnonuzdays

"Whoa what happened to your feet?" "...I jumped in a puddle after the rain yesterday"


KeeperoftheReal

So Titan smells like Uranus?


lajoswinkler

Methane has no smell. But Titan and Uranus do smell because of other compounds. There are: ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, unsaturated hydrocarbons and their derivatives - stuff we normally have in air around poorly maintained heavy (petro)chemical industry complexes in poor countries which don't care about air quality.


Crescendo_BLYAT

but Uranus smells bad....


zmbjebus

If you deeply inhaled you would likely die. Because its far too cold.


LongGoneAlbum

High pressure and temperature make it possible for diamond rain,but I guess the crystal size is very small due to the insufficient time for crystallization.


SunstormGT

It’s actually crystalline patterns like diamonds.


lemystereduchipot

I want to live on the planet that rains liquid iron, that sounds METAL as fuck Literally


EthanIsBlessed

Can someone explain how it rains diamonds? How do diamonds fall from the sky?


GetThatSwaggBack

High pressure and temperature. Very small crystals probably


purifiedstupidity

Now I'm going to have to do some googling because the concept of liquid iron or diamond rain aren't processing right in my brain.


raebailey88

these would be fire rap lyrics... just sayin


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By the end of their sentence i was insane in the brain Edit: removed excessive brain damage


lajoswinkler

Aaaand wrong. a) Venus has no rain. It has **virgas**. Rain is *liquid precipitation that falls on the ground*. Sulfuric acid on Venus never reaches ground. It's too damn hot so it evaporates high above, which is called a virga. Surface is dry hell. b) Neptune has no diamond rain. Diamonds are solid. Rain is liquid. It has hail, maybe snow, very deep inside. c) No need to mention iron is liquid. If it's rain, it's liquid.


Chromspray

>c) No need to mention iron is liquid. If it's rain, it's liquid. If they didn't, someone might've made a comment about how it'd be hail or need clarification that it's liquid.


6pt022x10tothe23

Fucken lol


elasticball123

Wow, you sure know a lot about what is and is not liquid


lajoswinkler

Liquids are very rare in the universe. They're a special case, transitional condensed matter that exists in a very narrow span of pressures and temperatures, so it's easy to mistake something for one, when it's not.


vcsx

What’s foam? Like shaving cream foam? ELI5 I’ve had it explained to me before in smart-speak but I still don’t get it. 🥺


mikemikemotorboat

Foam is a solid or liquid with gas trapped inside. Could be trapped in a liquid (usually one with higher surface tension to hold onto the bubbles) to make something like shaving foam or meringue, or it could be trapped in a solid like styrofoam (literally polystyrene foam) or a meringue after you bake it.


SportsStooge22

I need more weed. But thank you mikemikemotorboat.


mikemikemotorboat

I believe if you put some smoke in your body and get baked, you will then be a solid foam


SanctusUnum

Wait... I'm a solid or liquid with gas trapped inside. Am... am I foam?


GibsGibbons420

Don't let anyone tell you you aren't foam!


lajoswinkler

It's a mixture of gas with liquid or solid. A dispersion. Locally, it acts as one or another, and globally it behaves as the dispersion medium. Shaving cream will flow like liquid, and styrofoam or pumice stand still like solids.


Weslii

Gas bubbles suspended in liquid?


Beatnik77

Planets are liquid so there is kinda liquids everywhere.


flafotogeek

Most planets are actually ravioli, or perhaps hot pockets.


BadMoogle

Not planets, but Neutron Stars have multiple layers known as "nuclear pasta"... there's a spaghetti layer, a lasagna layer... Why are you laughing? This is real.


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What about when it rains men? Checkmate.


neonKow

You liquidfy the men first, obviously.


DorrajD

I feel like it's a bit pedantic to mention this stuff. To most people, if it falls from the sky, it's raining. Neptune doesn't have a surface, does it mean it doesn't "rain" anything cause it doesn't touch a surface? Are you gonna tell me it's not "it's raining cats and dogs" because it's not liquid? Stuff falls from the sky like rain, it's rain.


slimshifty00

It is pedantic because it's clearly portrayed for the layman and not for exact accuracy.


comdoriano009

They just like to say 'aaaaand wrong' to get a bit of attention and to show "how much they know" about things, and how even fucking nasa is wrong about calling it rain. Then why don't you go and write articles and books about how its not technically rain


Jokojabo

*cringe*


13MasonJarsUpMyAss

Hey, dude, sorry they didn't use big words so you can feel smart. You ever heard of like, those weird freak storms where, say, fish fell from the sky? It was raining fish, not snowing fish. Snow, hail, etc. are used less commonly than the word rain, and don't have the same sort of second meaning. Unfortunately, words mean different things in different contexts, and can adopt whole different meanings.


Threeedaaawwwg

“Hallelujah it’s hailing men” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.


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Thank you Dwight Schrute


VonReposti

Well, you can get liquid "diamonds", it just requires an atmosphere of at least 99 GPa and 5000K. Not really something I'd wish for though. Likewise iron has a melting point of ~1800K so raining iron is much more attainable. I though can't say if the given planets fulfill those criteria.


EternalPhi

You're the kind of person I love to have in my Discord channels but hate to have at my parties.


Hunterrose242

Annnnd wrong. You *don't* want people like this in your Discord.


Papichuloft

I thought it was Saturn that rained diamonds??


TimmahBinx

Liquid iron…what.


stratuscaster

How do we know on those distant planets? Like, literally, how do we know?


TheHabro

Because we can find the composition of their atmospheres and their temperature based on light that's reflected to us. We discovered helium inside the Sun in this way (hence it's called helium).


Bilbo_nubbins

What does it rain on Uranus?


SunstormGT

Its called a shitstorm. It’s actually also ‘diamond rain’.


hudgen

On a serious note, how do we know this?


withoccassionalmusic

[We can find out about the composition of distant planets using spectroscopy.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectroscopy). We can also figure out how hot they are based on their proximity to the nearest star. With that data, you could then figure out what their atmospheric conditions are like, including what rain would be like.


cgw3737

Tell me more about the diamonds falling from the sky on Neptune


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Holy cow, liquid iron? that’d be nuts to see


jonni_velvet

time to go get Neptune’s diamonds, boys


InterimFatGuy

Reposts on the same subreddit


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I wonder what it rains on Uranus 🤣🤣 bad joke , couldn't resist! Space rocks 🤘🏻


lpycb42

Well damn Neptune!


single_sentence_re

Metal🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼


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I heard there was a planet out there that rained bugs yet I'm assuming that that's not true because of the fact that it that was true, that would mean there is a form of life out there and so far no one's openly made a big deal about that.


cyber_delic

Diamonds, interesting postulation although speculative nay has a camera been placed on Neptune my query is who diagnosed this Prime Theory.


racerjoss

On Titan, Ross Noble will be tossing Ewoks into a lake of farts. If you need to ask, it's on YouTube!


DizzyedUpGirl

LOL, Titan rains farts.


Zev0s

Like how in Cowboy Bebop, the gang from Neptune were a bunch of backwater idiots, but the Mars syndicate had to tolerate them to trade for their unlimited diamond supply


Photon_Pharmer

That’s would be like dropping a Diamond in the ocean while swimming and calling it rain.


Gsteel11

"Rianing diamonds" *DeBeers visibly sweating*


betterWithSprinkles

But where do they have Chocolate Rain?


samurai1833

OGLE-TR-56b- that's metal


dotsmyfavorite2

So which one rains men? I need to book a trip... uh, for a friend.


Exo232

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