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how desperate do you have to be to write this headline? endless experiments fail to find life (as any reasonable person would expect) and then you justify your

how desperate do you have to be to write this headline? endless experiments fail to find life (as any reasonable person would expect) and then you justify your undying belief in extraterrestrials by conjecturing that maybe there was life all along but we killed it accidentally! this is one of the most cringe headlines I've ever read in my entire life. you didn't find life at any point. this is not in dispute. I hope this is actually just brain dead clickbait and not genuine simping for aliens by claiming xenocide based on literally nothing. hey, maybe one of the scientists accidentally farted on all the moon rocks too. we can't rule this out. better alert the media and make it seem like we're actually on the case alien hunters can't get a life here where it's warm so why would they get any out there? the real aliens are truly the friends we made along the way

IvyMike 3y ago
The article is not claiming xenocide; it is saying that the probe may have killed the life in the sample when it added water. Yes the headline is a little ambiguous, but I assume most readers have built up a filter for that by now.
- iraqmtpizza 3y ago
  walking through sewage does indeed strengthen the immune system. at least as much as water filters out the weak aliens. there was no life. the only fluid anywhere near the planet surface is a weak amount of carbon dioxide. there are no billion-year-old organisms still alive from when there was liquid water. I've heard of child-like wonder but this is just embarassing. i hope none of my taxes go to this "if elvis is alive, he lives on the moon" is a true statement only because elvis is not alive. if life was in the sample, it was killed by water is a true statement only on the technicality that the premise is impossible. the author either deeply misunderstands propositional logic or it's intentional clickbait. probably both. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=truth+table+%28p+implies+q%29+and+%28%28not+p%29%29 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=truth+table+%28p+implie... https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=truth+table+%28p+implies+q%29 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=truth+table+%28p+implie...

IvyMike 3y ago

The article is not claiming xenocide; it is saying that the probe may have killed the life in the sample when it added water. Yes the headline is a little ambiguous, but I assume most readers have built up a filter for that by now.

iraqmtpizza 3y ago
walking through sewage does indeed strengthen the immune system. at least as much as water filters out the weak aliens. there was no life. the only fluid anywhere near the planet surface is a weak amount of carbon dioxide. there are no billion-year-old organisms still alive from when there was liquid water. I've heard of child-like wonder but this is just embarassing. i hope none of my taxes go to this "if elvis is alive, he lives on the moon" is a true statement only because elvis is not alive. if life was in the sample, it was killed by water is a true statement only on the technicality that the premise is impossible. the author either deeply misunderstands propositional logic or it's intentional clickbait. probably both. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=truth+table+%28p+implies+q%29+and+%28%28not+p%29%29 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=truth+table+%28p+implie... https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=truth+table+%28p+implies+q%29 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=truth+table+%28p+implie...