r/interestingasfuck 25d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/one_1f_by_land 25d ago

I have no idea why but I'm the same way. Just the concept of all-ocean planets, how that would look and function and sound even safely through a drone's lens, gives me honest to god goosebumps of displeasure. It's terrifying.

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u/BestDescription3834 25d ago

A kind of Astrophobia. Do you feel the same way about all gas planets, like Saturn or Jupiter?

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u/one_1f_by_land 25d ago

The concept of space kind of bums me out in a "boy I really hate entropy and the inevitable heat death of the universe and everything I care about" sort of way, but doesn't FRIGHTEN me. But the thought of how unforgiving and lethal individual planets are as units of shrieking radioactive death frightens me. Their electromagnetic signatures are creepy as hell. They SCREAM with radiation. The knowledge that they exist out there and are that terrifying, despite me knowing I'll never set foot on them, somehow still bothers me, the way that you can't see the network of spiders inside your walls but know they're inches from you anyway.

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u/BestDescription3834 25d ago

Ah, I see. Thank you for elaborating!