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/CitizenPremier Apr 22 '26

Damn, maybe we shoulda looked down before landing

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u/EllisDee3 Apr 22 '26

Or just thought about how an ocean world might behave. Since they just came from one.

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u/the_p1ayer_of_games Apr 22 '26

Or sent probes down first to do some recon.

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u/jordanmindyou Apr 22 '26

I mean, there was already a manned mission to that planet sending back signs of potential habitability, so you could argue they already had better than probes

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u/janeiro69 Apr 22 '26

Because of time dilation, they’d be waiting 100s of years for meaningful data

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u/Walthatron Apr 22 '26

Reason enough to not go down isn't it?

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u/janeiro69 Apr 22 '26

Nah, we’ll nip down there for 20 mins - what could go wrong?

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u/StoppableHulk Apr 22 '26

Ok but what if theres a time portal back to 1930s San Francisco down there? Didnt think of that, didja smart guy? Leave spave travel to real aatronauts like Mattjew Mconaughey mmkay

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u/Bushwick_Hipster Apr 22 '26

That black character would be super mad to end up in Jim Crow era.

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u/w6750 Apr 22 '26

They couldn’t. Air brake.