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Which is just a different way of saying "uninhabitable". The middle of the Sahara is uninhabitable. Unless you introduce sufficient water and plants that is.
by arp242 3y ago
Which is just a different way of saying "uninhabitable".
The middle of the Sahara is uninhabitable. Unless you introduce sufficient water and plants that is.
- andrewflnr 3y agoIt is not "just a different way". There's no reason to assume impact melting from the surface is the only source of carbon in Titan's ocean. The authors of the study seem clear on this. I don't know why you feel the need to stand up for phys.org on this, or why you think the Sahara is relevant.
- lucb1e 3y agoExcept, if I understand them correctly: they don't know what the Sahara's core is made of and might supply for life, to keep the analogy Not that that makes it likely to be hospitable. I'm only surprised by the headline because I wouldn't have thought anyone had expected anything different, so a headline like "as uninhabitable as you might figure" would have made more sense, but nevertheless this doesn't rule it out to about the same extent as it wasn't deemed unlikely already in my perception (as a follower of space news)
- BirAdam 3y agoWell… the Sahara has life though. It isn’t abundant, but it’s certainly there.
- andrewflnr 3y agoIndeed, there's quite a gulf between not having "a large biosphere" and having no biosphere at all.
- elihu 3y agoThe Sahara is kind of a funny example because it actually holds enormous quantities of water over on the eastern side, left over from the last time that whole area was a jungle. Libya gets most of its water from that aquifer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_Syste... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjOW6kLEckg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjOW6kLEckg