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Published: 2021-09-27 15:59:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 1077; Favourites: 10; Downloads: 9
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This is a Hycean world (Hydrogen + Ocean = Hycean).Hycean worlds are still hypothetical, but quite possible extreme worlds that could harbor life:
Oversized, hot Super-Earths or Mini-Neptunes with hydrogen-enriched high-pressure atmospheres and higher gravity than Earth. They have a planet-wide ocean, sometimes probably hundreds of kilometers deep, but no land masses of any kind.
Life here would probably take place on the surface and down to a depth of several kilometers. The bottom of this planet-spanning ocean is an extreme place that cannot be recreated in any laboratory....
My hypothetical surface of such a Hycean world shows a continent-sized life form, similar to a mixture of an earthly slime mold and a jellyfish. It floats on the surface and is connected with innumerable filaments, which reach also into several kilometers of depth. It feeds on the one hand by a form of local photosynthesis, but also lives "predatorily" by capturing and digesting microorganisms.
Terragen 4.5.56, Pixelmator 2.1.3
