Hubble Discovers a "Waterworld,"

The Hubble Space Telescope continues to do history making discoveries. Of late Hubble has brought us the extrasolar planet with the unimposing moniker GJ1214b a water world.

Now I suspect that at this moment you are thinking of the movie staring Kevin Costner  with the same title, but GJ1214b is a far cry from Costner's temperate world.  Hubble's waterworld atmosphere appears to  consist of more than 50% water!  The "surface" of the planet seems to be also mostly all water.  But that is as close as we are going to get to anything even close to human habitability.   Due to it's orbit, which is very close to the system's sun, the mean surface is apx. 450 degrees Fahrenheit.  At this point you have to be thinking liquid water at 450 degrees?!  Then think what an atmosphere that is thick with water and this would result in massive pressures at the surface, allowing water to remain in a "fluid" state.  The high pressures would form exotic materials like 'hot ice' or 'superfluid water.

So we have a planet with an atmosphere dense with super-heated steam, and on the surface thick viscous water possibly littered with huge  hot "icebergs"

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Sci Fi Channel Remakes Waterworld

IO9 is reporting that the Sci-Fi channel has dumped 6.4 million into a remake (or tribute if you will) to Kevin Costner's Waterworld. And you thought I was just joking when I said that the folks at Sci-Fi were on Crack....

Here is what IO9 had to say: Lost City Raiders, [is] the Sci Fi Channel's $6.4 million tribute to Kevin Costner's Waterworld. Two groups survive the flooding of the Earth: the poor, who huddle in near-starvation, and the rich, who survived the disaster and now live in artificial islands. But a third group, the Lost City Raiders, searches the flooded remains of cities for treasures in their high-tech submarines.

In truth I didn't think Waterworld was all that bad. Mad Max done wet was my opinion. Some of my favorite stories are set in just these sort of worlds. Yeah the whole thing with the tanker and smokers was overdone, however the imagery was great. So I guess I will give this version a looksee.

More on the project that will star James Brolin from c21 Media