Interestingly, this game's gas giants are more like hycean planets.

[magelord01]

These are sub-Neptune mass planets, whose atmospheres are mostly hydrogen and helium, just like the top layers of gas giants. I even figure that a typical hycean planet looks sort of like a mini-Jupiter from space. Indeed, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently detected a strong signature of alien life in the atmosphere of one hycean planet designated "K2-18b".

[Lindy Bomber]

Hycean planets have a liquid water surface,, the Titanic water worlds would be a closer fit

[ccrider183]

Originally posted by magelord01:

These are sub-Neptune mass planets, whose atmospheres are mostly hydrogen and helium, just like the top layers of gas giants. I even figure that a typical hycean planet looks sort of like a mini-Jupiter from space. Indeed, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently DETECTED A STRONG SIGNATURE of alien life in the atmosphere of one hycean planet designated "K2-18b".

Pretty sure the brakes were put on that runaway train... and for good reason. To make a splash in the water (speculation on my part: keep the funding coming) with iffy data interpretation--let alone methodology, etc--is bush as well as sadly prevalent.

But, it got the headlines they wanted. For posterity's sake, let's frame it as "scientists claim to have found..."

[Shadow Strider]

Originally posted by ccrider183:

Originally posted by magelord01:

These are sub-Neptune mass planets, whose atmospheres are mostly hydrogen and helium, just like the top layers of gas giants. I even figure that a typical hycean planet looks sort of like a mini-Jupiter from space. Indeed, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently DETECTED A STRONG SIGNATURE of alien life in the atmosphere of one hycean planet designated "K2-18b".

Pretty sure the brakes were put on that runaway train... and for good reason. To make a splash in the water (speculation on my part: keep the funding coming) with iffy data interpretation--let alone methodology, etc--is bush as well as sadly prevalent.

But, it got the headlines they wanted. For posterity's sake, let's frame it as "scientists claim to have found..."

Yeah, just saw some info on that earlier today.
The paper making the claim about the likelihood for life on that planet is sketchy at best. Lots of self referencing in the citations (which is a bit of a red flag), and they've ignored recent info on the compound that was previously thought to be an indicator for life... It was once thought that it could only be created by biological processes (ie living things), but now they believe it can be produced through other methods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYjYvKoQVeM