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A new study suggests that the amount of oxygen on Europa is on the lower end of previous estimates. The moon may be uninhabitable. (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There seems to be an error in the thumbnail. That's the back of Darth vaders head.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fediverse bug. I see the correct thumbnail, but have seen the wrong thumbnail on other posts when using a kbin account.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I believe this was a joke, about how this moon looks like a shaved scrotum that’s been savaged by a ferret.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Typo in title. ‘Inhabitable’ means it’s suitable for life, which is not what the study says. You meant to say ‘uninhabitable’.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Who knew inflammable meant flammable! (thanks, I fixed the title)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Article:

“It’s on the lower end of what we would expect,” said Jamey Szalay, a plasma physicist at Princeton University who led the study. But “it’s not totally prohibitive” for habitability, he added. ... “We don’t really know how much oxygen you need to make life,” she said. “So the fact that it’s lower than some earlier, wishful-thinking estimates is not such a problem.”