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longship

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1. Good news, and bad news.
Tue Nov 27, 2012, 02:49 PM
Nov 2012

The good news:

The comet reservoirs could have delivered life-giving oceans to the innermost planets.


The bad news: They keep coming into the inner solar system, striking the planets there because there's no freaking Jupiter-sized gas giant to shepherd the comets away from the inner planets.

Good news, and bad news. longship Nov 2012 #1
Good point DavidDvorkin Nov 2012 #2
Presumably. JackRiddler Nov 2012 #3
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