The Weirdness of Water Part 2/2
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Is There a Liquid Water Ocean in the Universe?
There is plenty of water in the universe, isn't there? But it's not always liquid water. And we think that it needs to be liquid water for life to exist. Venus is actually the only other planet that's nominally inside this goldilock zone. There are organisms on earth that can survive in really acitic conditions. The real problem is how much water is actually there? If they're almost all sulphuric acid, there's only a little bit of water. Is there enough water in those droplets to support life? This is something that a group of astronomers and astrobiologists and geologists have been trying to figure out.
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