Pluto and five moons in our solar system have more water than Earth

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/15/pluto-and-five-moons-in-our-so.html

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“Water, water, everywhere,

And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”

― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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'This is an island surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water.

– Donald Trump, on Puerto Rico

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I don’t like to buy bottled water but if someone starts offering up “The Sparkling Waters of Pluto” at my local corner store I might check it out.

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I see a business opportunity:

Mercury in Alabama, Nevada, and Texas
Venus in Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, and Pennsylvania
Mars in California, Pennsylvania, and Texas
Jupiter in California, Florida, and North Carolina
Saturn in Indiana and Texas
Neptune in Iowa, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin
Pluto in Mississippi, Texas, and West Virginia

There doesn’t seem to be a town named Uranus. But that’s ok.

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So those stories of aliens coming to Earth to steal our precious reserves of water are false?

I mean, because they’re stealing water from those other planets, not because they don’t exist or anything.

(Jokes aside-- do we really know how deep the oceans are on those other planets?)

[ETA: errr. . . “planetoids and moons.”]

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Sounds like those planets need some freedom.

/s in case that was not obvs.

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That would be really interesting to find out. I’d be interested in microbial life, but I bet there’s more…

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Free-diving lizard people (super tense without their roiboos, though,) and remakes of Escape From LA all the way down the gravity well. Huh!

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Surely I’m not the only person to think of Ice Pirates here…right?

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This also shows that planets similar to Earth’s should be really abundant in the Universe.

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“And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on…”

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So the aliens have a ready supply of water that doesn’t involve invading us. Whew!!!

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And it’s probably easier for the stars to be “right”.

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Hey, @beschizza, is there a link to where he published this? I want to share it from Dr. Vance’s original post/tweet/whatever if I can.

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I couldn’t even find the buzzfeed story the graphic claims to have come from.

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BuzzFeed story? The Business Insider story has a different graphic

Eta: and there’s an earlier version if the story with the amount of ice too:

Dang, BI really reuses that story. Here’s one with that graphic:


And another without:

Am I being a BI SEO pawn?

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Appreciate the effort!