Inhospitable and then some: Astronomers have discovered an "extreme" planet – Earth-sized, but ... ye gods!
"We will beam down only red-shirt personnel to explore this planet," Captain Jerk decreed, shortly before the mutiny that led to him being packed into a photon torpedo casing and launched on the most direct trajectory into the intergalactic void.
Quote:...the most inhospitable planet ever that rains rocks, with 60 mile deep lava seas and winds of more than 3,000 mph ... four times the speed of sound ... temperatures of about 3,000 degrees Centigrade on one side - hot enough to vaporise rock.
But they plunge to below minus 200C on the other - cold enough to freeze nitrogen.
"We will beam down only red-shirt personnel to explore this planet," Captain Jerk decreed, shortly before the mutiny that led to him being packed into a photon torpedo casing and launched on the most direct trajectory into the intergalactic void.
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."