"Up to half the water on our planet is older than the solar system
itself. Ancient water molecules assembled in the chilly confines of a
gigantic gas cloud. That cloud spawned our sun and the planets that
orbit it — and somehow those ancient water molecules survived the perils
of the planetary birth process to end up in our oceans and, presumably,
our bodies."
-- Ray Jayawardhana, a professor of
physics and astronomy at York University in Toronto, in his
New York Times article
"Our Cosmic Selves." He was highlighting the findings in an earlier study in
Science, with the summary "The analysis suggests that all nascent planetary systems may have the same water resources that
we did."
