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Science Watering You
Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Some hard facts about water on GoingWell.com:
We still do not know where water, the very medium of life, came from.
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Before the comments turn to the subject of Mr. Mudede's piece,...
Let me just thank him for that absolutely unneeded, but nonetheless delightful, image.
Let me just thank him for that absolutely unneeded, but nonetheless delightful, image.
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most rocky worlds in the solar system have a good amount of water, we're just in that very narrow zone where it doesn't all boil and leach off into space or stay permanently solid, the fact that we have so much oxygen is much more interesting and a testament to the ability of the simplest life to modify worlds
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Did you know Gold comes from novas, not from our sun?
That said, everyone knows that water comes when a boy H2 and a girl O2 get together and ... share.
That said, everyone knows that water comes when a boy H2 and a girl O2 get together and ... share.
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i believe that the going hypothesis is that most terrestrial water is actually alien in origin, brought in via asteroids and comets and such.
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Water's the second most common molecule in the universe after molecular hydrogen. That is would be on the planet is not a surprise. It's part of all but the innermost two planets, most of the moons, and is the main ingredient of the comets.
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I had to water my tomatoes three times today. They were just not feeling well after a very hot weekend. I don't know where water comes from, but we sure do need a lot of it.
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I thought the love affair of H2 and o2 produced hydrogen peroxide, not dihydrogen oxide (a.k.a. water).
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@13 H2O2 is not water. It's hydrogen peroxide. I think what you meant to say is when Two Hydrogen molecules hook up with an Oxygen molecule at the same time.
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@16: I deeply regret not adhering to proper stoichiometric conventions in a joking comment on Charles fucking Mudede's Slog post. If you want a balanced equation, pedant, ask for one, don't go around correcting comments like this is a Chem 142 quiz session.
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Of course we know where it came from. The Oxygen was formed from nuclear fusion, which then combined with hydrogen to produce the H2O compound, which fell onto the early earth.
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