alt Hacker NewsWhere Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself
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So the theory explained here is that Hydrogen mixed with the Oxygen in the melted rock (magma) of earth, under extremely high pressure to create our earth specific flavor of H2O (appropriate amount of trace minerals and deuterium).
Am I reading that correctly?
Link to the paper mentioned in the article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09630-7
Wow what an awesome art piece by Ada Zejun Shen that they commissioned(?) for this article!
Life began in the Ocean, but why did civilization begin on land? Is it because of fire? But I wonder if a different kind of civilization could have emerged
Maybe some of Earth's oceans came from its rings collapsing (not kidding)
200 years from now on HN.
"Where Did Earth Get Its Deserts? Maybe It's Ai, Datacentres and Climate Change"
My Impacts project depicts a scene from the prolonged bombardment, a time when Earth was cratered by asteroids and comets:
* https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf#page=9
* https://impacts.to/bibliography.pdf