' Wrote:Depends I guess. The current temperature in space is pretty set (or will stay at it long enough for Sirius to consider it set). What is that temp? What elements would be liquid at that temp?
Actual water exists as a layer in the clouds of Jupiter--where the pressure and surface temp are high enough. A "belt or cloud" of water could exist around a star but boy would it be an anomaly and fragile. Would take a freakish set of circumstances. Maybe a "brown/black dwarf" star...a star to small to collapse to a neutron star and too cool to have ever blazed brightly--perhaps only a burned out core, could retain enough heat and gravity to have an extensive atmosphere of water if enough ice clouds surround it and cascade to its realtively cool surface. Would have to radiate infrared heat and have enough gravity to pull the ice down Near the surface could be the bottom of a "dense pile" of crashing ice and water. Would be pretty tumultuous--like a never-ending tidal wave hitting the beach. In space most would be a roiling gaseous or frozen crystal rushing cloud. Liquid could be hydrogen, methane, helium etc but same sort of difficulties exist. one intersting scenario would be a carbonized star--almost like graphite--with little residual heat emanating and one substance that might be plentiful there and maybe exist as a semi-liquid is petroleum. Might be a good source for the oil in Gallia and even be minable. You would need lots of petroluem soaked rocks floating in it and maybe alien organisms as an oil source (unless they were long extinct there).