Cribbed from slashdot.org

KentuckyFC writes

"Water is the most abundant solid material in space. But although astronomers see it on planets, moons, in comets and in interstellar clouds, nobody has been able to show how it forms. In theory, it should form easily when oxygen and atomic hydrogen meet. The problem is that there is not enough of it floating around as gas in interstellar dust clouds. So instead, the thinking is that water must form when atomic hydrogen interacts with frozen solid oxygen on the surface of dust grains in these clouds. Now Japanese astronomers have demonstrat......rst time in the lab in conditions that simulate interstellar space. That's cool because all the water in the solar system, including almost every drop you drink on Earth today, must have formed in exactly this way more than 5 billion years ago in a pre-solar dustcloud (abstract)."

Cool, I never knew KFC was that educational. I thought it was all about greasy chicken.

KFC is pretty prolific on slashdot.org

Sometimes people ask him to cite his sources, but he usually BALKS!

Sounds like the guy on alt.conspiracy named Brad Guth who insists we didn't go to the moon!