• spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    We sure are. We’re walking around, being 70% superheated ice. We can melt normal solids like oxygen and carbon dioxide to vapour just by huffing on them. In fact, we breathe oxygen and carbon dioxide!

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      I’m pretty sure oxygen would be a gas there.

      It wouldn’t last for long, as it’s that incredibly reactive gas that corrodes everything, but it’s a gas.

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    Look up the book Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter. The first short story titled The Sun-People is exactly this scenario. It happens on a large asteroid in our solar system. Needless to say, that the creatures can’t survive in our presence.

  • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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    In Project Hail Mary there is an alien species that from our point of view are basically living rocks, living in a far hotter atmosphere with many times the pressure of earth.

    But from their point of view, humans are leaky sacks of flesh that live in fridge near-vacuum

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    If you want a book about hot aliens thinking Earth is frigid, try “Iceworld” by Hal Clement.