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AllNewTypeFace, in Heliophysicists call for fresh missions to study the Sun—and a new name for the field
@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space avatar

Can we send Elon Musk to take a good close look at it?

Bronzebeard, in Heliophysicists call for fresh missions to study the Sun—and a new name for the field

Who wrote this shit? You can’t make an article that’s half about wanting a new name for your field and end it with “there’s a lot of ideas” without giving a single one. Garbage.

5714,
todd_bonzalez,
@todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee avatar

Sunologists

RizzRustbolt, in Heliophysicists call for fresh missions to study the Sun—and a new name for the field

K’iniophysicists?

Agent641, in Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say

Well no. By definition it had Venus-like life.

muhyb,

Zoidberg:

-If you call that living.

qyron, in Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say

Earth-like would be, by definition, impossible. Venus-like, that, would be something.

remotelove,
@remotelove@lemmy.ca avatar

Earth-like is a very broad term. If an organism has something similar to DNA or shared any kind of chemical processes it could be “earth-like”.

As an odd hypothetical example, there is a theory that fungi could potentially spread from planet to planet. Even with a billion or so years of independent evolution, fungi on Venus and fungi on Earth could still share some of the same traits.

qyron,

Nobody caught the dad joke vibe, I see.

remotelove,
@remotelove@lemmy.ca avatar

It was overshadowed by the first bit where you said “by definition, impossible”. It kinda boned the delivery, TBH.

qyron,

Some you win, some you lose.

acockworkorange,

Some were born to sing the blues

qyron,

Which is a genre I enjoy very much.

acockworkorange,

Don’t stop believing
Hold on to that feeling
Streetlight people

qyron, (edited )
Olap, in Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say

Not ruling out some stange bacterial life that’s generating phosphene however. Come on space agencies, Venus atmosphere sample mission when?

Gradually_Adjusting, in Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

I can’t say I’m surprised

…But my relief is profound

NuraShiny, in Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say

Well duh. It’s a hell of acid storms and sulfur, how would it have had life?

HubertManne,

I mean sulfur is an important component of life and extremeophiles can handle many conditions. When I heard things about possible life at venus it was generally the idea of microorganisms floating in the atmosphere.

TheWolfOfSouthEnd,

I’m not meaning to sound sarcastic or like I’m taking the piss, but how do we know there are no life forms that like acid storms and sulphur?

NuraShiny,

This headline says earth-like life. I just didn’t repeat the word.

huf,

there’s a bunch of life around the deep sea volcanoes that lives off sulphur and stuff, so technically it’d still be earth-like life :)

NuraShiny,

Fair point there!

acockworkorange,

Even if it doesn’t have now, it’s quite a leap to say it never had.

NuraShiny,

Is it? Why?

acockworkorange,

Earth was very inhospitable for love for quite some time. In the future, it could become barren again. What’s to say that Venus wasn’t once harboring life? We don’t know anywhere near enough of its geology to even guess that.

acockworkorange, in Who needs colors anyway

Use ortho film 🧠🧠

deFrisselle, in Astronomers deal a blow to theory that Venus once had liquid water on its surface
@deFrisselle@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Oh, boy

thefartographer, in Astronomers deal a blow to theory that Venus once had liquid water on its surface

Astronomers: Nuh-uh

Phys.org: Oh shit!

Me: I bet I can be dumb on the internet

mvirts, in Who needs colors anyway

Use three different monochromatic filters in front of your optics, you have three different telescopes.

Colors? Like Jet or Hot?

lemming,

Oh no, not Jet! If you really can’t live with just Viridis and insist on some kind of spectrum, at least use Turbo, please.

threelonmusketeers, in Rapid colonization of a space-returned Ryugu sample by terrestrial microorganisms

“We found aliens! Wait no, it’s actually just us again…”

SynopsisTantilize,

We should just bio-seed a planet just to see what happens. Like really …what’s the worst thing that could happen? (Genuinely asking)

Cause the way I see it, we could very well create a new planet or asteroid or moon with micro life on it. It would be nifty.

XeroxCool,

The worst that could happen in our lifetimes, I would say, is be a total waste of money and resources since no other reachable bodies have atmospheres suitable for Earth-based life. Beyond our lifetimes, and possibly beyond humanity’s existence, that life may be able to survive somewhere but any kind of evolution likely takes millions of years and long-term survivability may not let it see that day

mumblerfish, in DESI confirms Einstein's model of space-time, limits alternative explanations

preference of the data for dynamical dark energy

That is a quite weak statement, I presume it implies that this result has not excluded a cosmological constant by a long shot, bacause that would have been huge.

bitcrafter, in DESI confirms Einstein's model of space-time, limits alternative explanations

Curses, foiled again!

chaos,
@chaos@beehaw.org avatar

Conspiracy theorists: “scientists know it’s all wrong but they’re preventing the truth from coming out to protect their precious ‘theories’”

Actual scientists: “crap, our theories were dead on yet again, damn it, will someone please finally blow even a tiny hole in this thing so we can move forward”

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