Dwarf Planet Neptune

[Christian.D walker]

• Planet Earth has 30% oxygen, all of that oxygen comes from plants.

So if we take some (frozen)samples from Neptune and heated the water down could be drinkable Here on earth?

Planet Neptune is mainly Hydrogen which sits at 80% but there are small traces of both Helium 18% and Methane 1.5% (Both are gas)

(Theory) Could it be possible, that if we were to loose our drinking supply here on earth. We could take chunks of ice from Neptune and and make it drinkable here on earth? Maybe, I was looking at some articles where some guy was explaining exactly what helium does to the body. It cuts off oxygen supply but , earth has plenty of oxygen to make up for the damage of helium in the first place. We could always avoid getting chunks of ice from the area in which the hydrogen and methane is placed on the Dwarf Planet.Another thing is Neptune doesn't seem to hold any kind of rocks so the drinking water wont taste like salt water.So if Big amounts helium gets rid of oxygen and we have plenty oxygen here in earth to breathe would't the oxygen here effect the water from Neptune and make it drinkable even though only a certain part of Neptune has Helium and Methane?

Edited April 8, 2013 by Christian.D walker

[Moontanman]

 

• Planet Earth has 30% oxygen, all of that oxygen comes from plants.
• So if we take some (frozen)samples from Neptune and heated the water down could be drinkable Here on earth?

 

Neptune is an ice giant not a gas giant or a dwarf planet, it is made mostly of various ices, water, ammonia, methane, any chunk of ice would have lots of impurities...

 

 

• Planet Neptune is mainly Hydrogen which sits at 80% but there are small traces of both Helium 18% and Methane 1.5% (Both are gas)

 

Again, no, Neptune is an ice giant and at the pressures on Neptune methane is an ice...

 

 

• (Theory) Could it be possible, that if we were to loose our drinking supply here on earth. We could take chunks of ice from Neptune and and make it drinkable here on earth? Maybe, I was looking at some articles where some guy was explaining exactly what helium does to the body. It cuts off oxygen supply but , earth has plenty of oxygen to make up for the damage of helium in the first place. We could always avoid getting chunks of ice from the area in which the hydrogen and methane is placed on the Dwarf Planet.Another thing is Neptune doesn't seem to hold any kind of rocks so the drinking water wont taste like salt water.So if Big amounts helium gets rid of oxygen and we have plenty oxygen here in earth to breathe would't the oxygen here effect the water from Neptune and make it drinkable even though only a certain part of Neptune has Helium and Methane?

 

I'm not sure where this comes from but helium if mixed with oxygen is quite breathable. And again neptune is an ice giant not a dwarf planet. Neptune almost certainly has a rocky/metal core btw. and helium has no effect on oxygen at all. and the ices would almost certainly be mixed up, not in chunks of one or the other and good luck dragging any large quantity of anything out of Neptunes gravity well..

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune

 

 

The internal structure of Neptune:

1. Upper atmosphere, top clouds

2. Atmosphere consisting of hydrogen, helium and methane gas

3. Mantle consisting of water, ammonia and methane ices

4. Core consisting of rock (silicates and nickel-iron)