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re: Edinburgh/MIT scientists to announce evidence for life in Venus’ atmosphere
Posted on 9/13/20 at 8:08 pm to cgrand
Posted on 9/13/20 at 8:08 pm to cgrand
Total BS. Where is the scientific experiment?
Do you think we can say there is potential life anywhere based on IR telescopes etc from millions of mikes away?
Do you think we can say there is potential life anywhere based on IR telescopes etc from millions of mikes away?
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Posted on 9/13/20 at 8:09 pm to cgrand
Finding microbial life is huge. Unfortunately the media doesn’t GAF unless they are little green men here to tell us that Trump is bad.
Posted on 9/13/20 at 8:10 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Never really bought into the great filter hypothesis. There’s no reason to think the obstacles to life would be uniform across the solar system let alone the galaxy/universe
Posted on 9/13/20 at 8:10 pm to cgrand
True story... Russia dominated Venus before America.
Posted on 9/13/20 at 8:13 pm to GaDawg9977
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So now the “law of averages” is part of the scientific method huh? Regardless of observation, it must be true!!
I'm guessing lunch was your strongest subject in school, because it sure as frick wasn't science....
Posted on 9/13/20 at 8:15 pm to Da Sheik
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Where is the scientific experiment?
It’s being published in nature. However it doesn’t sound like a definitive finding of life. They were just able to rule out logical abiotic sources of the chemical signature.
Potential microbial life in the atmosphere should be of no real surprise. There is a lot of current research that microbes in the clouds on earth have impacts on cloud formation.
Posted on 9/13/20 at 8:18 pm to ForeverEllisHugh
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There’s no reason to think the obstacles to life would be uniform across the solar system let alone the galaxy/universe
precisely...
Posted on 9/13/20 at 8:20 pm to chRxis
Which would mean different planets may not face the same “filter” Or even face one at all
Posted on 9/13/20 at 8:26 pm to ForeverEllisHugh
What's this "filter" being thrown around? An Atmospheric term? Genuinely do not know.
Posted on 9/13/20 at 8:28 pm to jcolding41
Just google “great filter” if you want to go down a rabbit hole of extraterrestrial philosophy
Posted on 9/13/20 at 8:30 pm to cgrand
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The volume of Phosphine observed was stunning.
Phosphine is some bad stuff. That is what we use as a last resort to kill a weevil infestation in our grain bins.
Posted on 9/13/20 at 9:08 pm to chRxis
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it can almost certainly be surmised that intelligent life has existed, does exist, or is destined to happen somewhere other than Earth...
It sure as hell doesn't exist here.
Posted on 9/13/20 at 9:13 pm to ForeverEllisHugh
Yeah, a filter is not really recognized by mainstream science. It is an internet talking point.
Posted on 9/13/20 at 9:13 pm to Bmath
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It’s being published in nature. However it doesn’t sound like a definitive finding of life. They were just able to rule out logical abiotic sources of the chemical signature.
Yup. They basically found a lot of phosphine, went through all the ways they could think of to create phosphine that wasn't
and one by one ruled them out as possibilities on Venus until all they were left with was
They basically threw their hands up at that point, wrote the paper and are taking the position of "someone please find a way to explain this phosphine that isn't
because we can't!".
Posted on 9/13/20 at 9:26 pm to AUCE05
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Yeah, a filter is not really recognized by mainstream science. It is an internet talking point.
So nobody’s interested in the Fermi Paradox? Somebody should tell the baws at SETI to hang up their satellite dishes, the case has been settled.
Posted on 9/13/20 at 9:29 pm to Titus Pullo
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Good. I'm moving. This planet sucks now.
Bring a bathing suit.
Posted on 9/13/20 at 9:31 pm to cgrand
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observed what may be signs of life
May
Posted on 9/13/20 at 9:32 pm to cgrand
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teeming in quantity if not diversity
Great. More diversity to deal with. Just fricking great.
Posted on 9/13/20 at 9:49 pm to cgrand
Does that mean Venians built the Pyramids?
Posted on 9/13/20 at 9:57 pm to chRxis
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I'm guessing lunch was your strongest subject in school, because it sure as frick wasn't science....
I’m not the one trying to pass Philosophy off as hard science.
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