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by se4u 771 days ago
Details are in the actual paper, and its linked prominently but it take a few clicks to get there.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10960378/

There's even a video abstract!
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thedrexster 771 days ago
video abstract direct link (40.7MB mp4):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10960378/bin/40...

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verisimi 771 days ago
I've skimmed this, it makes no sense to me. There are some graphics. There are things like this:

> The ISS genomes exhibited an average of 4568 genes, a significantly higher count than the average of 4416 genes found in the Earth genomes.

Yes, 4568 is a significantly higher count than 4416. But if I took samples of this bacteria from different countries, would I see a similarly significantly different count? I've no idea.. is this even significant without this sort of comparison?

I watched the video too. This really is just a bunch of stock footage, with the same info as the linked NASA article.

Do others find this info to be compelling of anything? It seems that this could be a PR piece of some sort, for 'space science'. I don't get the significance.

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