Cosmology: water, water everywhere (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 23:57 (3320 days ago) @ David Turell

Seems like the universe, at least in our solar system, is filled with a big supply of water. the article also offers flights of fancy about strange life in that water:-http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2015/03/13/have-we-got-solar-system-habitability-backwards/-"These facts range from the extraordinary surface topography of places like Europa, to the 101 active geysers of Enceladus (and perhaps geysers on Europa too), the salty particles making Saturn's E-ring, and the silicate nanoparticles that could have originated in hydrothermal environments in Enceladus, as well as the sulfates scattered across Europa's surface, the slithering of Titan's outer crust, and the in-situ and remote measurements of induced magnetic fields in Europa and Ganymede that suggest a conductive internal medium.-"I think at this point only the most contrived of explanations could avoid concluding that most of the liquid water in our solar system resides beyond the Earth - conceivably 15 to 16 times or more the volume of all terrestrial surface water."