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2025-01-05 Science & Technology

NASA Discovered Planet Bigger Than Earth With A Gas That Is "Only Produced By Life"

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 The gas in question is "phosphine or methane".

Two rather different chemicals, not sure why the article cannot tell the difference between the two and instead lumped them together.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-01-05 01:47|| 2025-01-05 01:47|| Front Page Top

#2 samples have a highly unpleasant odor like rotting fish

Prob didn't want to get too close.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-05 06:21|| 2025-01-05 06:21|| Front Page Top

#3 methane and phosphine are also found in the atmosphere of Jupiter

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-01-05 09:24|| 2025-01-05 09:24|| Front Page Top

#4 methane and phosphine are only produced by life???????????????????????

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-05 09:55|| 2025-01-05 09:55|| Front Page Top

#5 "Only Produced By Life"
Unless produced by natural reaction.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-01-05 09:56|| 2025-01-05 09:56|| Front Page Top

#6 I can see it now.
NASA PURPOSES
Intergalactic community starship at a 200 year trip and $24 trillion dollar cost. Using Robert Helines design.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-01-05 12:22|| 2025-01-05 12:22|| Front Page Top

#7 They are organic compounds yes, but can be produced by non-life reactions.

Posted by DarthVader 2025-01-05 12:23|| 2025-01-05 12:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Known as [gas name, e.g., phosphine or methane], this compound is a byproduct of life,

An article about the exciting discovery of the presence of a gas that manages to avoid naming the actual gas in question. I detect either journalism, bless their hearts, or generative AI like ChatGPT. Given the amount of BS padding that would be embarrassing in a lazy high school essay, we could be seeing chatbot-assisted journalism.

Just one more milepost on the path to the Enshittification of Everything.

Posted by SteveS 2025-01-05 13:02|| 2025-01-05 13:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Interesting little article about Methane presence before the emergence of life.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-01-05 14:41|| 2025-01-05 14:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Writen by someone who has never been in a Winnipeg Jets Locker room after a game.

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2025-01-05 20:51|| 2025-01-05 20:51|| Front Page Top

#11 NASA Discovered Planet Bigger Than Earth With A Gas That Is "Only Produced By Life"

So they tuned in to see Whoopie on the View?

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-05 20:56|| 2025-01-05 20:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Pull my "Finger of God"..?

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2025-01-05 21:20|| 2025-01-05 21:20|| Front Page Top

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