Why are other researchers skeptical?

For starters, there are questions about whether K2-18 b even has water — or a surface that could support life. Modelling studies of it and similar planets suggest that they are probably barren4,5. “A lifeless mini-Neptune scenario remains the most parsimonious explanation,” says Joshua Krissansen-Totton, a planetary scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Then there’s the issue of whether DMS or DMDS is actually present, or whether the signal is spurious. The measurement reported by the Cambridge team is “really pushing the limit of what JWST can do”, says Laura Kreidberg, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.

Schmidt and his colleagues recently re-analysed the 2023 claim from the Cambridge team and found no evidence of biosignature molecules in the data6. Schmidt says that the new observations are “pretty noisy, and any reported features could still just be statistical fluctuations”. The Cambridge researchers, however, say that there is just a 0.3% probability that the signal is due to chance.

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Fake! There is no way a half dozen orcs moved in a circle without at least one of them either losing their balance or vomitting.

You’re calling the CCP liars? A bold move.

How many people were massacred during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989?

I have no idea what you’re talking about.

I appreciate your energy, but there are communities out there specifically geared towards catering to this particular void and will garner less opposition. For example:

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If only there had been some way to prevent this administration from being in charge.

AI chatbots can help treat mild mental illnesses.

No, they cannot and F you youtuber for saying they can.

Ahktually, they’re related to piranhas and are omnivorous.

Word of advice: When the publisher doesn’t bother to fact check the proper spelling of the city name it literally announces its bias and intent.

Thanks for this. I also support the Green Party and was furious they failed to meet the requirements, but blamed it on pure incompetence. Your reasoning at least explains their failure in a way that makes sense and doesn’t require them to be complete crayon eating buffoons.

I still feel like as an up and coming party you have one fucking job: meet the requirements to participate, so their failure still grates on my nerves but not so much now.

That one Beaker turning their back to the camera so as not to get recognized…

This is always clickbait. It’s not aliens. It’s never aliens. Even IF the detection of a chemical we previously believed only formed as a result of biotic processes is confirmed all this research can tell us is that there is likely conditions on other worlds where the abiotic formation of said chemical (in this case sulphur dioxide and disulphur dioxide) is possible.

Signals intelligence is a whole specialization, and if that isn’t enough simple espionage will suffice. I’m not saying Russia will send a missile to the exact coords of someone controlling a drone from their home in Copenhagen. I’m saying simply the announcement that volunteers are engaging soldiers remotely from NATO cities might be considered ‘proper’ grounds for war which is why we haven’t done so already (or if we have kept damn quiet for this reason).

This is technically feasible. IRC the US uses satellite comms to control predator drones across the globe from their mainland. There are 2 issues that immediately come to mind:

1. Latency - Depends on the quality of the link between pilot and end point transmitter, and the increased risks for jamming/hacking, and
2. Would be an act of war prompting probable orc military retaliation (along the lines of “they’re controlling drones from apartments in Moscow so now apartments are fair game?” logic).

Perfect. I’ll be using this from now on, thank you.

Temple Grandon (TV Movie).

OOC do you have an alternative to IMDB you can suggest?

Know that you are not just sharing your own genetic information, but also that of your blood relatives within 2 generations.

Anyone from your grandparents and their offspring can be matched to the DNA you send in. Surpise, your father has an illegitimate child and the will is now in dispute. Oh, looks like DNA of one of your relatives turned up in a criminal investigation so now most are being investigated. That’ll be a fun discussion at the next get together…

There is far more information packed in your genes than most laypeople understand. IMO this whole industry should have been legislated to either force destruction of all data once the report is generated or the consent of all your family members be a prerequisite.

If you are interested in this topic you may find this movie interesting.