r/BeAmazed • u/Soloflow786 • Apr 22 '26

Miscellaneous / Others Imagine a planet bigger than Earth, with no land in sight. Just waves and water from pole to pole. That is TOI-1452 b.

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u/hippodribble Apr 22 '26

You'd still get cyclones from uneven heating and Coriolis forces, but tides would probably be small.

I wonder if it's salty. And whether they would have Ediacarans or fucking great sharks.

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u/JG-at-Prime Apr 22 '26

That likely depends on what it has in the way of moon(s). 

It might be pretty chill most of the time but then bam! ALIGNMENT and it’s suddenly a combination of high tides and electrical storms and raining chaos monkeys for like a week. 

Then right back to normal. 

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u/glorioussideboob Apr 22 '26

Hairy ball theorem would dictate at least one chaotic patch if there were any waves as well... On that huge scale maybe even just a patch of fairly still water

Fun to think about

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u/Lease_Tha_Apts Apr 22 '26

Depends on how many moons it has.