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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3526 Posts |
Cribbed from slashdot.org
KentuckyFC writes "Water is the most abundant solid material in space. But although astronomers see it on planets, moons, in comets and in interstellar clouds, nobody has been able to show how it forms. In theory, it should form easily when oxygen and atomic hydrogen meet. The problem is that there is not enough of it floating around as gas in interstellar dust clouds. So instead, the thinking is that water must form when atomic hydrogen interacts with frozen solid oxygen on the surface of dust grains in these clouds. Now Japanese astronomers have demonstrat......rst time in the lab in conditions that simulate interstellar space. That's cool because all the water in the solar system, including almost every drop you drink on Earth today, must have formed in exactly this way more than 5 billion years ago in a pre-solar dustcloud (abstract)."
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Bill Nuvo Inner circle 3094 Posts or 2742 Posts |
Cool, I never knew KFC was that educational. I thought it was all about greasy chicken.
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3526 Posts |
KFC is pretty prolific on slashdot.org
Sometimes people ask him to cite his sources, but he usually BALKS!
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
Sounds like the guy on alt.conspiracy named Brad Guth who insists we didn't go to the moon!
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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