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Bipogram t1_j5mhk4m wrote

Reply to comment by DukeElliot in Have you ever thought about what it sounds on jupiter by Western_Home6746

Over which is an ocean of hypercompressed hydrogen at essentially the same density as the rock below.

The only transition is one of composition (mumble: and both seismic speeds) rather than density - which we seen in the terrestrial oceans.

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ghostoftheai t1_j5neitn wrote

So if it’s as dense as rock can you walk on it or is that not how it works?

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Bipogram t1_j5p5m64 wrote

We can walk on things because they're rigid solids.

But I doubt that there's a nicely defined discontinuity between the metallic hydrogen ocean and some rock.

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