The universe just gets weirder and weirder every time you look at it.
Scientists have discovered a young star (only 100,000 years old, a virtual baby), 750 light years from Earth (just a piece down the old road, in interstellar terms), which is spouting a stream of water vapor out its north pole, like a gigantic, flaming, outer space whale.
Spunky
Not only had nobody ever seen this kind of thing before, nobody had ever even theorized about this before (I could be wrong about that. However, I’ve never thought about it before.) The whole idea of solar, nuclear level heat and water don’t mix. Of course, it’s water vapor until it’s already a long distance from the star, which I am going to name Spunky, because I don’t believe it has a proper name yet and the scientists will probably give it some boring name like SG1392-467a. This is amazing. It’s water just shooting off out into space. From a star.
The implications are enormous. First, it means that water is probably a real common element throughout the universe, because if there’s one star out there doing this, there are many, and out of the gigazillions of stars in the universe, even if it’s only a fraction of one percent, it’s still an awesome, titanic super soaker festival going on, and every passing planet gets wet.
Speaking of passing planets, there was the other interstellar story which piqued my curiosity recently. Scientists have discovered rogue planets, i.e. planets which do not revolve around a sun at all but just wander through the universe, like Cain. Like the star which is shooting out water like a drunk in the parking lot at 3 a.m., they stand as proof that anything that can exist does exist. I’m starting to wonder if even Terry Pratchett’s disk world is impossible.
Anyway, I’m thinking if one of these rogue planets gets zapped with a bolt of water as it passes, creating an atmosphere, and oceans, and lakes and rivers, could life evolve there? Well, not without an independent source of heat and light, which of course some planetary bodies do have, internally. So, no sunlight, but heated from the bottom up, the waters would be warm.
And some of them may have developed great civilizations, with large populations, which pass through other star systems and wreak havoc. I think it could be a series.
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Who says the waters need to be warm? Life – of some sorts – has been found at both extremes. We’re just insignificant specks who think way too much of ourselves. I can’t wait for the Big Collapse to suck everything back in and start it all over again. In fact, it’s the one thing that gives me comfort in the knowledge that we’re fucking everything up for future generations for the greed of now.
Don’t mind me: it’s just the 151 talking.
Just like we’re finding out that there are planets of a myriad of shapes and sizes, and stars that do stuff we never thought stars did, so the range within which we once thought life could prosper keeps expanding and expanding.
Still, for life-as-we-know-it or life-we-could-conceivably-relate-to, the deep freeze of interstellar space would be too much.