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Oceans Potentially More Common In Solar System
nairolF writes "The AIP Physics News Update has a brief note on how water oceans might be more common in the solar system than previously thought, rendering useless the old notion of a narrow "habitable zone" in solar systems, outside of which life cannot exist."
A whole new stretch of ocean-front property to buy from shady realtors! They need somewhere, now that all that Louisiana swampland is finally sold.
At 5 degrees kelvin. Hardly bikini weather!
Why are we spending all our time trying to protect ours? Let's waste it like rock stars in a holiday inn!
tcd004
Janet Reno Margolis for Florida Gov.
Under some circumstances water might even be found inside Uranus...
Old news, the Kaopectate people have known that for years"Good things don't end with eum, they end with mania or teria." - H. Simpson
Why don't they heed the warning?! All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there. Dave will be pissed...
Oceans are believed essential for life, but so was the habitable zone. It is the height of "optimism" to believe that if one is wrong, the other must be even more right than before.
There is life on Earth which exists in deep, oceanic trenches, near hot volcanic vents. Since that life could not exist prior to the volcanic vent opening, it can be assumed that the formation of life, at it's most basic, is occuring on a regular basis. These life-forms may or may not have any nucleic structures we would recognise.
For this reason, until such extreme life-forms on Earth are better understood, and the range of conditions in which they can form are better quantified, only the very brave, or very stupid, could claim that "factor X will make life more/less abundant in our Universe". All we really know is that the picture is a hell of a lot more complicated than it used to be.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Gee, you finally noticed us just by thinking! And we thought we were going to have to wait for you to improve your neutrino detection!
Greetings!
The "Others"
Liberty uber alles.