Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Space
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Re: Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Space
#2Maybe we could bring some to California.
Re: Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Space
#3It's amazing how many words he spends saying "this large body of water is really quite large." I mean:
> The official NASA news release describes the amount of water as "140 trillion times all the water in the world’s oceans," which isn’t particularly helpful, except if you think about it like this.
> That one cloud of newly discovered space water vapor could supply 140 trillion planets that are just as wet as Earth is.
Oh, so that's what that means! Gosh!
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#4It's amazing how many words he spends saying "this large body of water is really quite large." I mean: > The official NASA news release describes the amount of water as "140 trillion times all the water in the world’s oceans," which isn’t particularly helpful, except if you think about it like this. > That one cloud of newly discovered space water vapor could supply 140 trillion planets that are just as wet as Earth…
I think the line underneath was better
"The new cloud of water is enough to supply 28 galaxies with water."
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#5It's amazing how many words he spends saying "this large body of water is really quite large." I mean: > The official NASA news release describes the amount of water as "140 trillion times all the water in the world’s oceans," which isn’t particularly helpful, except if you think about it like this. > That one cloud of newly discovered space water vapor could supply 140 trillion planets that are just as wet as Earth…
Replacing "140 trillion times the total water on Earth" with "enough to supply an entire planet's worth of water for every person on earth, 20,000 times over." wasn't a particularly good idea.
Re: Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Space
#6I'm not sure I would apply superlatives when talking about a possibly infinite domain.
Then again, it's not that I could claim this is the most pretentious headline produced by an intelligent human either.
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#7This article (like the discovery it reports) is from July 2011. The NASA press release can be found here: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/universe2011072... and it contains all the actual information in the article.
(And: what a terrible article! On two occasions it simply says the exact same thing twice in succession in almost the same words. And it says this: "NASA’s water discovery should be a reminder that if we have the sophistication to discover galaxies full of water 12 billion light years away, we should be able to save people just an ocean away from drought-induced starvation." ... which makes as much sense as saying that if we have the sophistication to discover enormous black holes at the centres of galaxies, we ought to be able to make our own black holes in the laboratory, or that if we have the sophistication to accelerate protons to 0.999999991c in the LHC, we ought to be able to make cars go at at least 0.9c.)
Re: Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Space
#8It's amazing how many words he spends saying "this large body of water is really quite large." I mean: > The official NASA news release describes the amount of water as "140 trillion times all the water in the world’s oceans," which isn’t particularly helpful, except if you think about it like this. > That one cloud of newly discovered space water vapor could supply 140 trillion planets that are just as wet as Earth…
Replacing "140 trillion times the total water on Earth" with "enough to supply an entire planet's worth of water for every person on earth, 20,000 times over." wasn't a particularly good idea.
I like 140 trillion earths figure, that's pretty unimaginable. 20,000 not so much.
Re: Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Space
#9I bet Nestle has already bought it.
Re: Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Space
#10It's amazing how many words he spends saying "this large body of water is really quite large." I mean: > The official NASA news release describes the amount of water as "140 trillion times all the water in the world’s oceans," which isn’t particularly helpful, except if you think about it like this. > That one cloud of newly discovered space water vapor could supply 140 trillion planets that are just as wet as Earth…
I'm not satisfied till I see it measured in toilet flushes.