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Interesting new science news out of NASA

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-research-could-reshape-understanding-of-how-planets-form

This research reshapes the way that habitable planets are identified because it goes against the idea that all silica-rich rocks contain water, and therefore the keys to habitability. Since the silica-rich meteorite in the study likely formed without the presence of liquid water, searching for bodies in the universe that have silica-rich rocks as a way to define habitability may no longer work.

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Interesting. Our species needs space exploration, we're wired to roam and colonize and this planet is getting pretty damn small. Hawking, Musk, and Branson are (were) right, we need a new frontier. 

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The study is suspect since UNM was involved.  j/k

Actually, we need to get the James Webb Telescope up in space which will give us better analysis of exoplanet atmosphere composition.

The telescope is now pushed back for launch until March 2021.

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Earth supposedly didn't have much if any water when it formed.  Most of the water came from asteroids and comets that continually hit the earth over time.  
And there's tons of these large dirty snowballs out there in the Ort cloud beyond Pluto.  However the more they find other exoplanets, the more they find that earth is oddball.  There's a lot of planets and moons that may have water but most of them are just frozen iceballs to far away from their sun.  

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