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To: Qwinn
The ancient predecessors of John Carter, Warlord of Mars, teleported back here with all the water.

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Actually, the Oort cloud contains massive amounts of cometary material, and I'd suspect the odds are not great that we actually have a reliable notion of what ratios of heavy water they contain, since we haven't sampled much, and their sources seem likely to have been diverse. If there's someplace in the solar system where water is in abundance, then odds are, that's where our water came from. I'm betting on the steady accrection theory--the water's here because it is steadily (or unsteadily) renewed from cometary material.

73 posted on 03/08/2004 9:12:30 AM PST by donh
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To: donh
Hrmmm... I have a feeling I wasn't the one you meant to reply to.

Qwinn
74 posted on 03/08/2004 9:16:36 AM PST by Qwinn
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