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by ZunarJ5 1017 days ago
This feels like a big deal. The website seems to be getting hammered as it is working on and off.
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What makes it feel like a big deal? Carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen are extremely abundant. Those molecules are relatively low energy combinations of the elements. I would be surprised to not find them in the atmospheres of big rocky planets.
Apperantly it seems to be the presence of " dimethyl sulfide ". It seemingly only produced, on earth at least, by life. So using us as a baseline it seems pretty interesting.

> DMS is generated by the degradation of dimethylsulfoniopropionate, which is present in many species of marine algae and plants, including dinoflagellates and coccolithophores

After getting sucked in by the phosphine on Venus hype, I refuse to get hurt again. . .
Yes, this is it!