#hycean

I'll just say what I think about the "killing fish" in the game

I don't really think outright killing them should get implemented.

I never really killed anything in the first two games anyways, I'd usually just give them a smack and if I felt like they weren't learning a lesson I'd chase them down.

I am virtually exactly the same but I don' chase anything down anymore. I feel like part of the game is integrating with an alien world, and I don't think ruthlessly killing anything in your way is meaningful interactivity,

"Oh WOKEnautica isn't listening to the players we wanna kill every fish we can!!" Like okay Chara put the True Knife away and get out the survival multitool m'kay?

I get the Mango Nibblers and Marrowbreaches being annoying, but its never to a degree where I want to exterminate them, plus,

You have three tools that counter them

Who looks at the Waxmoon, or the Hycean, or any of the smaller fish, and think:

"K I L L ."

Okay, assuming you did get to kill these creatures... now what? The smaller fish; if they're in slashing range, they're in collecting range, unnecessary violence. Waxmoon, does nothing but swim around and be ✨️✨️stunning✨️✨️, you kill them, now what? Wow bro, you look really cool against that nonaggressive animal. Reeeaaal cool.

And even for the only real targets which would be the Nibblers, Marrowbreach, and Collecter Leviathan

First of all, being able to kill these creatures would ruin any actual horror, as all you'd start doing is, instead of going:

"Oooooh whats that?"

You go

"Oooooh a new victim!"

Who tf are you playing for? Nibblers are literally so easy to deal with, one smack, they stop their attack, just get away from the Marrowbreach or Sonic Resonate them, and the Collecter, come on, they're awesome, why would you want to kill them? If you want to powertrip about killing giant creatures, idk, play Helldivers or something, I think the Collector stealth is so much better than a collector boss fight, and honestly, I kinda hope if they add the PRAWN suit back, it doesn't have a drill attachment, because it tricked all the youtoobas and cloutchasers into thinking that felling leviathans was the point of the game. Its not.

Also, despite the PDA explaining that in the presence of a gun, pioneers would often turn it on others or themselves, yet these braindead sponges want guns because they're not smart enough to experience the game's mechanics that are deliberately explained to them, and, isn't one of the ruined bases ruined because there was a riot and people were exploding the base? They would 10000% shank people if they had a knife, the Multitool, while looking like a switchblade, looks a lot more blunt then a tomahawk, and being able to smash small material clusters probably shows that its more of a hammer than a knife.

MonikaCinnyRoll had a good idea in a Flare Gun, that just acted like the Distraction Flares, but gun, it would make sense to have, and would work in game.

Listen, I'm just saying, I think playing the game and watching the creatures gk about their behaviors is so much cooler than just killing them all because you wanna exercise your dominance over these creatures.

LOOK AT EEEEMMMM, COULD YOU SEE THIS IF YOU JUST KILLED THEM ALL ON SIGHT??

Hycean named Gasoline.

He's friend :)

A Hycean World ?

Recent analysis of a Red Dwarf star located 111 light years from Earth has thrown up 2 planets that were classified as Super Earth's, potentially rocky planets with a mass in excess of Earth but less than a Sub Neptune, although in this instance both are mid way between at masses of 7.5 and 8 times that of Earth.

JWST has now been able to detect the atmosphere of one, and the outcome is intriguing.

The planet named K2-18b shows an atmosphere made up of Methane and Carbon Dioxide, which the team of astronomers believe could indicate a hydrogen rich ocean world known as a Hycean world.

Such a theoretical planet could hold ocean based life, and as JWST also picked out Dimethyl Sulphide, a chemical normally produced by microbial life on Earth, it's opened the possibility that this massive planet may be home to life.

Of course, it could also be home to geological or atmospheric chemistry that creates it too, although that isn't the case here on Earth, it cannot be ruled out as being the case on K2-18b.

Got inspired to create this alien after reading about a potential new classification of habitable worlds called "Hycean planets".  They're described as hot, water-covered worlds with hydrogen-rich atmospheres that are in the size range of super-earths and mini-Neptunes.  The most promising of these hypothetical type planets is K2-18b.  I'll probably make a landscape piece depicting this planet at some point but first this is a sapient that I designed for it (working on a name for it).  It has bladder-like mantle on it's back that it can inflate with hydrogen gas for mobility above water and deflate when below it with a pair of wing-like flippers for mobility in both environments.  It's head extend from the front of the body with eyes resembling those of a mantis shrimp mounted on stalks and it's beaked mouth at the base.  It has eight limbs; two pairs of forelimbs ending in suction cup lined fingers for manipulating objects and tow pairs of hind limbs for locomotion on dry surfaces (I'll explore this in a future piece).  Its neurology is similar to that of an octopus, having the main brain in the head with neural cords running down each limb.  If this species was ever able to leave their planet, they would need to wear pressurized suits to survive, hence the bottom right sketch.

Hycean Class Planets

In the search for life, went tend to look for the rather cringably termed "Earth 2.0", the small rocky planet in the habitable zone that could sustain liquid water, and we've found a fair number of these planets to date, but their size and proximity to their host star makes detailed readings very challenging.

A much more common find however are super-Earth's or sub-Neptune sized planets, generally overlooked for life on the basis the gravity would be far too extreme and the surface likely blanketed by a thick atmosphere similar to Venus that would both heat and crush any macro life at the very least.

However, Astronomers at the University of Cambridge UK think they may have come up with a more common and easier place to look, what they have termed the "Hycean World".

These classes of planets are 2.5 times the mass of the Earth and over, have atmosphere's of hydrogen and huge oceans of water on the surface. The atmospheric temperature and gravity would be too harsh for land based life as we know it, but under the water there certainly could be conditions for life to thrive.

The astronomers believe it may be easier to pick up on the traces of life in the atmosphere of these larger planets than trying to find biosignatures on smaller rocky planets, and have already identified a good number orbiting red dwarf stars within 150 light years of Earth.

One such exoplanet is the K2-18b, 111 light years away in the constellation of Leo and with a red dwarf star. The planet is 6 times the mass of Earth and sitting in the habitable zone of the star. Scientists think the planet is either mostly a rocky word with an atmosphere similar to Earth but FAR larger, or most likely, a water/ice world with a much thicker atmosphere.

Source : http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/hycean-worlds-10004.html

James Webb descobre metano e dióxido de carbono na atmosfera de um exoplaneta na zona habitável.

Uma equipe internacional de astrônomos usou o Telescópio Espacial James Webb para fazer uma descoberta surpreendente: moléculas de carbono, incluindo metano e dióxido de carbono, na atmosfera do exoplaneta K2-18 b, que orbita uma estrela anã fria na zona habitável. Essa descoberta fornece um vislumbre fascinante de um planeta diferente de qualquer outro no Sistema Solar, e levanta perspectivas…