Shredding a supernova.
Surfing on a distant star in a galaxy far, far, away. Walking out on your board’s nose for a cheater-five, riding a nebulous cloud through the infinite darkness of space. Getting spit out of a black hole, executing a grab-rail, carving cut-back. Ripping a hole in the space-time continuum. Finessing the very fabric of the Universe.
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Water is cosmic.
All of the water on Earth came from space in exactly the form it is in now: H2O. Water not only came from space it was created out in space. Hundreds of millions of years before the solar system, the world’s Ocean came from an interstellar cloud. This cloud was somewhere in the Milky Way galaxy. It formed one molecule at a time. All of the water on Earth was delivered here when Earth was formed. This occurred within the first 100 million years or so. What we have is what we’ve got. There is no geological mechanism on Earth to create or destroy H20. The Ocean (and all of Earth’s water) has literally been here forever.
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The Ocean—all the water on Earth—began as the finest mist, tiny ice crystals drifting around inside an interstellar cloud. Nevertheless, scientists don’t know how all that water gets from the interstellar cloud to our Ocean. They also don’t know how much water is actually on Earth.
Distance from Earth: a mere 1400 light-years (1 lightyear = 5.88 trillion miles)
The Orion Molecular Cloud.
The OMC is an interstellar spring of water. This massive glowing cloud of hydrogen gives birth to thousands of stars at once. As the stars coalesce, they collapse in on themselves. They send shockwaves out through the clouds of gas. These clouds contain lots of loose hydrogen and oxygen. When the shock waves slam the hydrogens and oxygens into each other, they often form water. There is enough water being formed in the OMC to fill all of Earth’s Oceans every 24 minutes. Surf’s up!
The Orion Molecular Cloud is making 60 Earth Oceans every 24 hours. Nevertheless, it is doing this across a span of space 420 times the size of our entire solar system. Even the dustiest parts of the cloud are the most dense with the most particles. They are still emptier than any vacuum that people can create on Earth.
Venus
Distance from Earth: 162 million miles
Venus have been our solar system’s first Ocean world. It was a supercritical carbon dioxide Ocean of a bubbly sort of fluid. The fluid flowed a bit more like a liquid. The bubbles behaved more like a gas popping up where the temperature and pressure varied a bit. Here on Earth, International Surfing Day is celebrated in the Summer on the longest day of the year. Venus boasts an endless summer. Its average surface temperature is 864° Fahrenheit (462° C). A single day on Venus is equal to 243 Earth days. That’s a lot of time to surf each day! Venus is so hot. The atmospheric pressure is 92 bar or 1334 pounds per square inch pressing down on you. It would be the equivalent of being 3000 feet deep in the Ocean. You would be crushed before you ever had a chance to catch a bubbling hot wave.
It’s this extreme Venusian pressure and heat that initially have created a supercritical carbon dioxide Ocean. Scientists are still in debate on what type of liquid—water or lava—etched Venus’ surface features. These features look very much like canyons, lake beds, and broad plains that once were sea floors. Venus no longer has liquid on its surface. The planet is dry. It is not presently hot enough to melt its carbons (which make up 96% of its atmosphere). While the surface rotates slowly, the winds blow at hurricane force, sending clouds around the planet every five days. Venus lacks a strong global magnetic field, which on Earth helps protect our atmosphere. Billions of years ago, a runaway greenhouse effect began raising temperatures enough. This occurred if there ever was an Ocean of water here. Over 1340° F or 727° C on Venus boiled off all of the water in the Ocean. A small amount of water vapor still exists on Venus, something like 20 parts per million. This water escaped into space due to the unrelenting solar wind.
“Should’ve been here billions of years ago, the surf was firing—before the wind got on it.” -Surfer on Venus
Mars
Distance from Earth: 34 million miles
Mars was once much more Earth-like. It had a thick atmosphere and abundant water. An Ocean covered nearly a third of the Red Planet. Imagine surfing huge, slow-motion barrels. Mars has only 10% of the mass of Earth. Its gravitational field is only one-third of Earth’s. Less gravity would produce larger yet slower-moving waves compared to the Ocean swells of Earth. Aerial surfing maneuvers would be extra lofty. But, Mars lost its protective atmosphere billions of years ago and has since lost approximately 87% of its water. Most of its remaining water is frozen in ice caps or trapped beneath the soil. A small amount of muddy, brackish water can be seen. It moves down the side of Martian hills in the local summer.
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Europa. Ganymede. Callisto. (Moons Of Jupiter)
Distance from Earth: 365 to 601 million miles depending on orbit.
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Invader
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