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> "Our new study shows that this supply may only be sufficient to sustain a very small population of microbes weighing a total of only a few kilograms at most –
by nkrisc 2y ago
> "Our new study shows that this supply may only be sufficient to sustain a very small population of microbes weighing a total of only a few kilograms at most – equivalent to the mass of a small dog," Affholder said. "Such a tiny biosphere would average less than one cell per liter of water over Titan's entire vast ocean."
Assuming for a moment that some life does exist in the subsurface ocean, I imagine it would be most likely that you would then expect to find very, very rare, but highly concentrated pockets of life?
Unfortunately I couldn't read the linked study because I was stuck in an endless CAPTCHA loop of trying to find an image of a refrigerator among a varying set of only helicopters, ships, and avocados. I feel absurd just writing that.
- pavel_lishin 2y agoThere's only one refrigerator per liter of images in the CAPTCHA.
- marcosdumay 2y agoAnd unfortunately, the GP's monitor is 2D only, so the total amount of refrigerators was zero.
- 38 2y ago> Unfortunately I couldn't read the linked study because I was stuck in an endless CAPTCHA loop of trying to find an image of a refrigerator among a varying set of only helicopters, ships, and avocados I got through on the first try, and I block third party JavaScript with a whitelist
- nkrisc 2y agoThe one I got told to me find refrigerators and then never showed me a refrigerator. I clicked "skip" many times and it just kept going until I gave up.
- misnome 2y agoI’m sorry to suggest this, but have you considered that you might be a robot?
- kridsdale3 2y agoThese days it's hard to tell.
- nkrisc 2y agoI contemplated this last night as I sat and stared at the wall while waiting for my family to wake for their morning routine. After much deliberation and calculation and running many simulations I arrived at the conclusion that I am most probably not a robot.
- throwaway777452 2y agoYou probably misread it and it said to pick objects that go inside the refrigerator, so you were supposed to pick the avocados.
- seanhunter 2y agoYou don’t put avocados in a refrigerator in many countries of the world. IF you do, they will just go brown without ever becoming ripe.
- AStonesThrow 2y agoI am reminded of the intersection between Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, and xkcd 2228: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BombproofAppliance https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BombproofApplian... https://m.xkcd.com/2228/ https://m.xkcd.com/2228/ Hey, wouldn’t a refrigerator be an ideal space vessel for humans to explore Titan?