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Ah, I see. My bad for not drilling deeper and reading the underlying study. In my eyes neglecting the inner planet as source of carbon (only referring to the ar

• margalabargala 3y ago
  No worries. I think it's reasonable to expect that people who write articles about journal articles would do a good job describing their conclusions. The whole point is that reading the underlying study shouldn't be necessary. I think this was an important study to be done, because if the conclusion came out the other way, that would have been very exciting. We would then be able to say "using only the aspects of Titan we know for certain to be true, we can model a plausible sustainable biosphere". A positive result would have been very promising, but this negative result should not be seen as discouraging.