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What If Earth's Oceans Vaporized and the Sky Caught Fire?
What would happen if Earth's oceans instantly boiled away? Explore a world of crushing atmospheric pressure, runaway greenhouse heating, supercritical water, and a potentially molten crust.
Our Sun will eventually exhaust the hydrogen in its core and expand into a red giant, dramatically heating Earth. But what if the oceans vaporized today? Could the sky really catch fire, and how would the planet's atmosphere change?
This episode explores hydrogen physics, Earth's thermal equilibrium, atmospheric loss, deuterium, and what a Kardashev Type 1 civilization might do with planetary-scale energy…
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