The discovery comes from the most extensive survey of the chemical compositions of planets ever conducted, and challenges our search for water in our own solar system and elsewhere.
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They found that water was "common" across many of those exoplanets. But they also discovered that there was less of it on those planets than expected, and there was great variety between the different kinds of worlds.
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Johnson - How to talk to aliens | Books and arts | The Economist
I MAGINE DINING in a European capital where you do not know the local language. The waiter speaks little English, but by hook or by crook you manage to order something on the menu that you recognise, eat and pay for. Now picture instead that, after a hike goes wrong, you emerge, starving, in an Amazonian village. The people there have no idea what to make of you. You mime chewing sounds, which they mistake for your primitive tongue.
Communicating without a shared context is hard. For example, radioactive sites must be left undisturbed for tens of thousands of years; yet, given that the English of just 1,000 years ago is now unintelligible to most of its modern speakers, agencies have struggled to create warnings to accompany nuclear waste. Committees responsible for doing so have come up with everything from towering concrete spikes, to Edvard Munch's "The Scream", to plants genetically modified to turn an alarming blue.
BROCKHAMPTON "SUGAR" Music Video | HYPEBEAST
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Brockhampton has released a music video for single "SUGAR", directed by the band's own Kevin Abstract and co-produced by the Safdie Brothers .
The track is taken from the hip hop group's album Ginger , which came out in August, and follows the release of the visuals for song, " No Halo ".
The video, which debuted yesterday on MTV and in New York's Times Square, opens with a couple having sex under the gaze of a frowning cartoon sun. The door creaks open to reveal an alien who shoots the guy in the head, before breaking into Ryan Beatty's opening vocals, naturally.
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At least one type of microbe on Earth not only likes to eat meteorites but actually prefers them as a food source, according to a new international scientific study.
Meteorite dust fragments colonized and bioprocessed by the microbe M. sedula. Image via Tetyana Milojevic/ Universität Wien .
The intriguing peer-reviewed results were published in Scientific Reports (a publication of the journal Nature ) on December 2, 2019.
[WATCH] Donald Trump As Thanos In Re-Election Campaign Image & Video – Deadline
UPDATED with Jim Starlin reaction: What’s more presidential than a sadistic alien despot who wipes out half the universe? In a curious move, the campaign to re-elect President Donald Trump has circulated a mash-up photo and video that melds the head of chief executive with the hulking form of Thanos , the extraterrestrial menace made infamous in the Avengers films from Disney and Marvel Studios.
“These are sad and strange times we are going through. Fortunately all things, even national nightmares, eventually come to an end,” Starlin added.
Weed week: The cannabis industry is about to go extraterrestrial - Stockhead
For example, THC products are legalised at the federal level in Canada, but not the US (or Australia).
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And evidently that legal jurisdiction extends into space, with plans underway to send hemp-based plant cells into orbit early next year.
Vice reports that US ag-tech company Front Range Biosciences has partnered with the University of Colorado to grow 480 plant-cell cultures in an incubator designed for space travel.
Zeroing in on an alien ocean: Water vapor found around moon of Jupiter
Yet, there are a few places in the solar system with liquid water beyond our precious Earth. One of them is Europa , a moon of planet Jupiter.
Discovered by the Italian astronomer Galileo over 400 years ago, Europa is thought to hold as much as twice the amount of water than all of Earth's oceans combined. The ocean itself is under a thick layer of ice, about 10 miles deep.
The evidence for an ocean came from the twin spacecraft launched in the 70s, the Voyagers, that took a close look at Europa. The Voyagers showed a young icy surface, cracked in a crisscrossed pattern. This would be expected if the ice was floating on top of liquid, fracturing along faults, like on Earth. In the 90s a third spacecraft, Galileo, named after the discoverer, made an important finding, showing that Jupiter's magnetic field was modified around Europa.
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