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Based on the HN headline, I was hoping it was in the solar system, like they just discovered the asteroid belt contained far more water than they thought before
by jff 15y ago
Based on the HN headline, I was hoping it was in the solar system, like they just discovered the asteroid belt contained far more water than they thought before... could be very useful for future space applications.
This is pretty cool too though.
- swombat 15y agoA cloud containing 140 trillion times the amount of water in our oceans would be pretty hard to miss if it was in our solar system! In fact, it might be bigger than our solar system... Anyone care to do the quick estimate math? (I'm on an iPad, impractical...)
- chronomex 15y agoThat would be a sphere of water with radius <0.25AU: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1.3+billion+cubic+kilometres+*+140+trillion http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1.3+billion+cubic+kilom... (Ocean volume figure is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean )