The world in itself isn't that strange to be honest but where it is is kind off peculiar, especially as it has indigenous life :O
A very odd Water World
- Thread starter Chris M Fortune
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So Millers world then...
Water would boil regardless of pressure at 365 deg C I believe (assuming Asimov was correct in his fiction, which he often is - Short story called Waterclap if I recall correctly)
Just for fun - an excuse to revise the properties of water at different temperature and pressures.
A nice diagram from London South Bank University website (http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_phase_diagram.html):
'E' marks the approximate surface conditions for the Earth. The red dot marks the end of the boundary between liquid and vapour phases is its critical point at 647K (373°C) which may be what Asimov was referring to - beyond this point its a supercritical fluid.
The OP's water world sits safely in the liquid phase though (345K and ~2k Bar).
A nice diagram from London South Bank University website (http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_phase_diagram.html):
'E' marks the approximate surface conditions for the Earth. The red dot marks the end of the boundary between liquid and vapour phases is its critical point at 647K (373°C) which may be what Asimov was referring to - beyond this point its a supercritical fluid.
The OP's water world sits safely in the liquid phase though (345K and ~2k Bar).
Well, that's certainly a glitch in The Matrix 
I was going to start a new thread regarding objects like this that are either impossible or highly improbable in the real universe, similar to Surly Badger's thread on complete systems, but thought better of it as it would generally bring the sense of dis-belief crashing to the ground, but it's still an interesting find never-the-less.
Andrew
I was going to start a new thread regarding objects like this that are either impossible or highly improbable in the real universe, similar to Surly Badger's thread on complete systems, but thought better of it as it would generally bring the sense of dis-belief crashing to the ground, but it's still an interesting find never-the-less.
Andrew