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The Water in Your Glass Might Be Older Than the Sun

Earth is old. The sun is old. But do you know what may be even older than both? Water.

It’s a mystery how the world became awash in it. But one prevailing theory says that water originated on our planet from ice specks floating in a cosmic cloud before our sun was set ablaze, more than 4.6 billion years ago.

As much as half of all the water on Earth may have come from that interstellar gas according to astrophysicists’ calculations. That means the same liquid we drink and that fills the oceans may be millions of years older than the solar system itself.​
 
jefboyardee said:
The Water in Your Glass Might Be Older Than the Sun

Earth is old. The sun is old. But do you know what may be even older than both? Water.

It’s a mystery how the world became awash in it. But one prevailing theory says that water originated on our planet from ice specks floating in a cosmic cloud before our sun was set ablaze, more than 4.6 billion years ago.

As much as half of all the water on Earth may have come from that interstellar gas according to astrophysicists’ calculations. That means the same liquid we drink and that fills the oceans may be millions of years older than the solar system itself.​
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... and yet, fish still have no problem peeing in it.
 
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Earthquakes across the world including powerful tremor in Ecuador and series of shakes in Japan could herald new MEGA quake

In addition to the four major earthquakes to have struck since Thursday, last week there were also shakes in the Philippines, Vanuatu and Myanmar.

All of the earthquakes have occurred in countries straddling the so-called Ring of Fire.

This is a horseshoe-shaped series of trenches spanning the Pacific Ocean where tectonic plates are shifting and seismic and volcanic activity is common.​
 
lunatic59 said:
If we subscribe to the theory that a good majority of the world's water was the product of comet impacts, then isn't it a reasonable assumption that it contains alien pee?

The truth may be out there, but this thread is WAAAAYYYY out there. :p
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Alien microbes and traces thereof.

Carl Sagan said we were truly star stuff in the original Cosmos.
So did CSN - Woodstock "We are stardust, we are golden"
 
zuben el genub said:
Alien microbes and traces thereof.

Carl Sagan said we were truly star stuff in the original Cosmos.
So did CSN - Woodstock "We are stardust, we are golden"
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Originally written and recorded by Joni Mitchell.
I heard a quote from I think Graham Nash, who was her boyfriend back then, saying that they took her song and turned it into a "boy song", which kind of irritated me when I heard it.
 
Today is my Burthday! Hate getting older... But that's life
Actually I hate seeing my kids get older!! Humphhhh 2 boys.. One just turned 14 2 days ago the other just turned 16!!! Although thank goodness they are total nerds! Not really but I grew up in the 80s do.... Total nerds!! I was reckless and stupid... But that was the way it was back then.... Now
I'm all like... Trying to tell them life is way easier if you put effort in now and it matters college tests grades rtc
Ughhhhhhhh just threw up in my mouth a little
But what's a mom to do? With 2 really good kids!!
It's my test I think! Really ... I tell them it just just matter... Sometimes I have to force them to skip once a year for mom son day!
Actually they live it cuz I make them do stuff they prob wouldn't
Any whoop
I digress
 
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