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I've noticed that 'water' is often discovered in places where people want to spend money to scrutinize/get to. (For a variety of reasons.) E.g. sometimes vast

I've noticed that 'water' is often discovered in places where people want to spend money to scrutinize/get to. (For a variety of reasons.) E.g. sometimes vast internal 'oceans' are somehow implied by water vapor escaping from the surface of a moon. For the sake of visiting astronauts, I hope some of this 'water' turns out to be real. (Wherever the water in the Earth's oceans really came from is at least, finally, being questioned.)

bee_rider 3y ago
This comment confuses me. Why is water in scare-quotes? Is the implication that it is something other than water? Is there a supposed meaning behind this tendency to look for water in places? I assume any sufficiently large celestial body gets a bit of eyeball time, and the ones that have water are bumped into the “interesting” bin because if we hypothetically ever hope to go there, that’s one necessary thing for survival off the list. What is the last parenthetical about? The water on Earth was at some point in space, after all, there’s no alternative…