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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."
That's what I am saying! To all my friends who are tree huggers and think we should save the world (one of my friends wants to be an EPA lawyer for God's sake...) I just tell them I am relying on technological achievments to help us from ruining our planet. Whether it happens or not, who knows. But it is fun to really bug the people that are extremem anti-polutionists, etc.
Moon Macrosystems. Sun's biggest competitor.
Sorry, just couldn't resist.
I couldn't agree more. The good news in this article is that man can colonize; the bad news is that Man can Colonize.
Then again, if it's the Chinese that get their first, well, we know how what they did to the Three Rivers Gorge, goodbye extraterrestial life, hello New Gangzhou!
This possiblity terrifies me. Look at the population growth of the Chinese! We Americans claim to be a "superior" nation yet we can't even touch the population numbers the Chinese are putting out. How can we hope to compete in fields such as primary experimental medicine and foreign occupation without any excess population? The Chinese have neary 3 billion people to rival our puny half a billion. If this story is right, and we're ready to move into space, it's pretty obvious what the outcome will be: the Chinese will leap ahead of us due to their superior population growth and colonize the Galaxy first.
My question is: what's their secret?
If guns kill people, then CmdrTaco's keyboard misspells words.