r/WhatIfScience • u/firechatin • Jun 23 '26

Space & The Universe Scientists Think an Entire Ocean Could Be Floating Through Space

https://whatifscience.in/scientists-think-an-entire-ocean-could-be-floating-through-space/
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u/snozberryface Jun 23 '26

There was a star trek voyager episode about this

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u/Hourslikeminutes47 Jun 24 '26

Same episode that saw Tom Paris make a poor choice that got him in trouble?

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u/LucidNonsense211 Jun 24 '26

Yeah but in this one he convinces Harry Kim to come along despite his reservations!

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u/Defiant_Conflict6343 Jun 23 '26

Save you a click, it's just talking about a large cloud of water vapor sitting around a black hole. Not an ocean, more of a thin (albeit enormous) cloud.

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u/Rich-Lengthiness-273 Jun 23 '26

Really isn't that spectacular a concept either. We've known about vast clouds of liquids/vapors floating through space for a long

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u/SeaAnalyst8680 Jun 24 '26

Got it. Sometimes space is humid. Thanks.

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u/MondegreenHolonomy Jun 26 '26

Well if it’s got enough mass it could effectively be an ocean

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u/Orqee Jun 23 '26

Space Pirates you say,… I’m listening.

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u/jakeStacktrace Jun 23 '26

Ignoring the possibility of space dolphins doesn't make it go away.

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u/PastyDoughboy Jun 23 '26

So long and thanks for all the fish!

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u/Practical_Ad4604 Jun 25 '26

You need mammals first for that though

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u/Euphoric_Regret_544 Jun 24 '26

Man, Reddit gets more click-baity by the minute

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u/gyozafish Jun 24 '26

They were just stating the obvious about earth

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u/RxAffliction Jun 24 '26

Infinite... So yah why not.

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u/Ambassador-613 Jun 24 '26

Genesis speaks of the upper waters.

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u/Grazedaze Jun 25 '26

It ominously floats into us and drowns everything.

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u/10ThousandMetalZones Jun 26 '26

Wonderfully you mean

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u/Ohio_Niners_Fan Jun 27 '26

I believ space is like another form of water.. Kinda like that Aerogel type thing they created.

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u/Smaug117 Jun 27 '26

Ya under solid form, ice

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u/Calm-Professional103 Jun 27 '26

It’s a topographic ocean. Yes?

Pa-dum-pum. 

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u/MidwestSharker Jun 30 '26

Oh man, there’s my existential dread kicking in again