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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I suppose it depends which creature from Titan you ask. Everyone knows that some creatures from Titan are racist, but that doesn't mean it's fair to generalize about all of them like that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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