▲ | nkrisc 9 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> "Our new study shows that this supply may only be sufficient to sustain a very small population of microbes weighing a total of only a few kilograms at most – equivalent to the mass of a small dog," Affholder said. "Such a tiny biosphere would average less than one cell per liter of water over Titan's entire vast ocean." Assuming for a moment that some life does exist in the subsurface ocean, I imagine it would be most likely that you would then expect to find very, very rare, but highly concentrated pockets of life? Unfortunately I couldn't read the linked study because I was stuck in an endless CAPTCHA loop of trying to find an image of a refrigerator among a varying set of only helicopters, ships, and avocados. I feel absurd just writing that. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | pavel_lishin 9 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There's only one refrigerator per liter of images in the CAPTCHA. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | 38 9 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Unfortunately I couldn't read the linked study because I was stuck in an endless CAPTCHA loop of trying to find an image of a refrigerator among a varying set of only helicopters, ships, and avocados I got through on the first try, and I block third party JavaScript with a whitelist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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