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."

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Re:This makes inhabiting other planets easier

[Exmet Paff Daxx]

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?