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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.
 
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
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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 :D

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.
 
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.
 
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.
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Interesting times ahead.

A rather long read but has a lot of detail.

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