I'm fascinated by all the space stuff as I said in the thread I started a while back on the little space craft that we landed on the comet.
Well news in from that landing is that it now seems very unlikely that the water on the earth came (as was thought) from them.
When the earth was born in was bascially a ball of fire and brimstone, massive volcanoes all over the place spewing out lava. So how then did all the worlds water get here?
It was thought that loads of 'ice' comets bombarded us over the eons and 'filled' us up with all the water we have - not so it seems now.
Putting it simply the earth's water 'signiture' and that from the comet don't match - it's the wrong type of water - so we are back to the begining - how did our water get here?
Anybody got any bright ideas?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30414519
Well news in from that landing is that it now seems very unlikely that the water on the earth came (as was thought) from them.
When the earth was born in was bascially a ball of fire and brimstone, massive volcanoes all over the place spewing out lava. So how then did all the worlds water get here?
It was thought that loads of 'ice' comets bombarded us over the eons and 'filled' us up with all the water we have - not so it seems now.
Putting it simply the earth's water 'signiture' and that from the comet don't match - it's the wrong type of water - so we are back to the begining - how did our water get here?
Anybody got any bright ideas?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30414519