RussellMc wrote:
> For extreme "special pleading" I like the trail of accessible water
> which increasingly appears to be available stretching out into the
> solar system.

I don't see why that should be surprising.  Since you're talking about a
star system, you obviously are already looking at a very special and unusua=
l
occurrance in the universe where heavy elements collect.  Those heavy
elements are going to organize themselves into molecules.  Water is a simpl=
e
molecule, made of two shovel fulls of the most abundant element in the
universe and one shovel full of a reasonably abundant one once you're
already in the vicinity of one of the heavy element collection anomalies.
These two molecules are at a much lower energy state when combined as water
than they are individually, so the combination is heavily favored when it i=
s
possible.

The real question is why would you NOT expect to find water in various
places as you started poking around?


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