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TNA · 8 Sep 2020 at 08:09

Malevolence said:

Wow. That’s a fantastic shot.

Malevolence · 14 Sep 2020 at 05:05

Want to exercise the old grey matter? The Black Hole information paradox may have been solved.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.08255.pdf

Rroff · 14 Sep 2020 at 06:19

Some of that seems to be put in needlessly complicated vocabulary just because they can.

That is an amazing image above - shame it is a bit grainy but I guess that is a consequence of dealing with low light conditions.

NickK · 14 Sep 2020 at 13:48

Malevolence said:
Want to exercise the old grey matter? The Black Hole information paradox may have been solved.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.08255.pdf

Was reading that this morning from my LinkedIn feed - bit of a wall of text.

The guys in linked are a bit smarter that I - seemed to get a bit of a poo-poo-ing from a number of professors in the field.. so obviously upset the apple cart

My view is the clearer you can explain it, rather than having random references the more likely it is that it's actually is correct... Still that doesn't stop arguments - Einstein vs Bohr for example.. until Hall came along an quietly came up with with a way to support Bohr's explanation.

Freakbro · 14 Sep 2020 at 14:09

Malevolence said:
Want to exercise the old grey matter? The Black Hole information paradox may have been solved.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.08255.pdf

Think I might wait for Matt on PBS space times episode to explain that one to me...

Fantastic pic above btw

Malevolence · 14 Sep 2020 at 19:04

And now there maybe life, albeit microbial, floating around in the atmosphere of Venus. If that turns out to be true, and life can actually exist in those conditions, then it's a damn good bet that the universe is teeming with life.

http://astrobiology.com/2020/09/pho...of-venus---an-indicator-of-possible-life.html

I seriously hope it is produced from microbes and not some new geological/meteorological system.

Raz · 14 Sep 2020 at 23:02

Malevolence said:
And now there maybe life, albeit microbial, floating around in the atmosphere of Venus. If that turns out to be true, and life can actually exist in those conditions, then it's a damn good bet that the universe is teeming with life.

http://astrobiology.com/2020/09/pho...of-venus---an-indicator-of-possible-life.html

I seriously hope it is produced from microbes and not some new geological/meteorological system.

Interesting times ahead.

A rather long read but has a lot of detail.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4

Malevolence · 15 Sep 2020 at 07:24

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1305598182571810822

Skidder · 15 Sep 2020 at 09:06

Exciting times.

413x · 15 Sep 2020 at 10:50

If I could live to see one event it would be finding life on another planet.

Does it have anything like DNA?
Would be amazing to find something so alien it is coded with a completely different or (just as exciting) same way as life on earth

Raz · 15 Sep 2020 at 11:54

Possible discovery of microbial life on Venus - 4 posts.

New 30x0 GPUs - 1 million posts .

TNA · 15 Sep 2020 at 12:00

Raz said:
Possible discovery of microbial life on Venus - 4 posts.

New 30x0 GPUs - 1 million posts .

CaptainRAVE · 15 Sep 2020 at 12:30

413x said:
If I could live to see one event it would be finding life on another planet.

Does it have anything like DNA?
Would be amazing to find something so alien it is coded with a completely different or (just as exciting) same way as life on earth

As a microbiologist I completely agree. I really hope I live to see it. What does it look like? Does it have DNA? Are there any connections with life here? Its really exciting. It doesn't sound like there is another explanation other than life for these findings currently. I hope we get a probe there asap.

413x · 15 Sep 2020 at 12:47

CaptainRAVE said:
As a microbiologist I completely agree. I really hope I live to see it. What does it look like? Does it have DNA? Are there any connections with life here? Its really exciting. It doesn't sound like there is another explanation other than life for these findings currently. I hope we get a probe there asap.

Ha. I studied molecular biology at uni too.

Imagine the implications if it is dna. Would suggest a common ancestor (ie life from space) and if it isn't.. The mind boggles!

wolfie138 · 15 Sep 2020 at 13:07

wonder how quick they can design a craft/mission to get there and take samples. as long as it doesn't end up like "Life"...

CaptainRAVE · 15 Sep 2020 at 14:14

wolfie138 said:
wonder how quick they can design a craft/mission to get there and take samples. as long as it doesn't end up like "Life"...

Agreed, I watched it the other day, an absolutely shocking film and not in a good way.

VaderDSL · 15 Sep 2020 at 14:41

CaptainRAVE said:
Agreed, I watched it the other day, an absolutely shocking film and not in a good way.

the only good thing about the film is the ending lol

CaptainRAVE · 15 Sep 2020 at 15:08

VaderDSL said:
the only good thing about the film is the ending lol

You mean that it ends?

B&W · 15 Sep 2020 at 20:18

Interesting, I remember reading an article a while ago saying phosphine was a pretty reliable sign that there is life on an exoplanet.

Let's hope they can re measure and get the same results, would suck if it was instrument error.

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