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Re:Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and pub... by wavefunction on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @11:04AM (#11430884)
Water vapor is lost to the vacuum of space, though it's obviously not enough to make a perceptible difference, at least on a human scale.
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Re:Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and pub... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @11:06AM (#11430904)
...and replenished from space through slushball comets!
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Re:Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and pub... by snuxoll on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @11:36AM (#11431206)
(Almost?) All water on Earth came from a comet, pretty amazing when you think about it.
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Re:Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and pub... by codeisawesome on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @03:13PM (#11433425)
Extremely. I just can't reconcile the fact that all this water came from multiple comet impacts. It somehow feels wrong.
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Re:Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and pub... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @03:52PM (#11433772)
...and if even one of the trillion comets over a billion years had some spore or cell frozen inside...
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