If there was life there 50 years ago there's good chances it has survived til today. Afaik there hasn't been any change in mars that would eradicate whatever life there is. We mightve killed the single organism we found but if we found one we can find more.
It’s interesting how the article you linked presents the conclusion
microbial life is not ruled out by the new results; but the fact is that the original Labeled Release results make sense with the chemistry of Martian soil as it’s now understood, no microbial life needed.
the chlorine component of the chlorobenzene is martian, and the carbon molecule of the chlorobenzene is consistent with a martian origin, though we cannot fully rule out instrument contamination.
Which would seem to be the same thing but with opposite probability biases. Your link is twisting its source material.
I have several astronomer friends from Spain, from where I’m standing it’s one of the world’s great academic “hot spots” for good astronomy.
Not only that, but one of these friends specializes in Active Galactic Nuclei and Blazars, I even entered the article hoping it was my friend. Cue Ron Howard narration voice: “It wasn’t.”
I have to wonder how this slowing down of time affected the Universe when it was still an inconceivably dense point that suddenly went into inflation mode, where and when time dilation must have been nearly as extreme as in the immediate proximity of an event horizon.
And how has any black hole in the Universe grown in mass at all in the past 13 billion years if time stops there? Any matter within the event horizon should be falling towards the singularity but frozen in time, frozen in its’ fall, never quite making it there.
How does any supernova ever even finish collapsing into a singularity?
The way I understood it way back when I was taking basic physics in college was thus (simplified): Time for the particle at relativistic speeds / gravities moves slower compared to a far away observer unbound by such influences. Like the twin siblings paradox. So a particle past the event horizon of a black hole would basically cease to experience time, but if we could see it, it would move otherworldly fast into it.
It makes sense, but it’s also annoying. Now instead of which planet is closest, the question should be which planets in our solar system have the closest orbital radius to ours? And then it can still be mars and venus. Thankfully in school the question was based from the sun outward. In which case the order isn’t fussed with.
This article reads like a smarmy kid who just wants to say the clichéd “acktually” with it’s technical truth.
It’s like asking “how much of the earth is water” vs “how much of the earth’s surface is covered by water”. Those are two very different answers, but if you ask people the first with no context they will answer with the answer for the second most of the time because it’s the thing we’ve heard so much from schooling days.
I love that more and more open source science projects are streamlining deployment and encouraging folks to just try it. This one has a binder link in the README (though it seems to be failing… may need some TLC). I really think this is a positive template for what academia could eventually become!
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