Our oceans came from outer space
Water on the Earth could have come from the stars, according to the latest research.
French researchers say our planet was as dry as a bone when being created, and liquid was only added to the mix later.
According to a report in Science Daily, 100 million years after the formation of the solar system while 'the big boys' (Jupiter, Saturn etc) were busy hoovering up all the left-over planetary rubble , they sent ice-rich asteroids in our direction.
Previously scientists thought water and our atmospheric formed from volcanic gases. But the rocks from the time are as dry as, well, a stone.
So we need another method of delivery of buckets load of water - and the orbiting rocky sponges fit the bill.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
