1 in 50 million chance… world population of 8 billion… average yearly birth rate of 19 per 1000… that would make it 3 per year of these cases! I wouldn’t’ve expected so many double-featured individuals being out there 😯
Still a lot of uncertainty here. Could engulf a whole town, or erupt in the ocean and spew a bunch ash, or be like last 3 times and just cover a valley. Here’s our national live news feed: ruv.is/…/2023-11-10-magma-tunnel-under-grindavik-…
The article is more making the points around overall amounts and ratios rather than just the presence of these materials. Plus it’s a science website more geared towards getting people reading and building interest, not an actual journal.
Saving you a click: Sun like stars turn into a red giant which is hard to live near and destroys nearby planets. After that red giants turn into white dwarfs which are possible to survive near but normally there aren’t any planets left to live on.
The article is about them discovering a jupiter size planet around a white dwarf
Thanks. If anybody is interested, I saved this article about said planet. It does, imho, a good job of going a bit deeper into the paper without beeing to technical (speaking from a lay persons perspective)
I’m not a biologist. The only context I have regarding rapid cellular reproduction in space is the 2017 movie “Life” where a fictional alien implies doom for humanity and all of Earth as we know it.
Are there any positives to this news? My understanding is that multi-celled organisms have a hard time repairing themselves in microgravity; bones in particular being affected among other processes. Hoping the research being conducted here helps advance medicine on that front.
I can only imagine what having the runs is like in space. Super powered E. coli coursing through your gut sounds extra…you know 💩
Could potentially be used to create better strains of “good bacteria” such as the extremely important ones that make up the human gut microbiome. I could see it maybe being useful for the development of antibiotics and vaccines too!
I may have missed it, but the article didn’t say how it was determined that the sample contained only moon material and not ejecta from any of the millions of meteors which have struck the moon.
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