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    1. microbes on Venus?!!
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    (leak of an embargoed announcement for tomorrow says they've found phosphine in the upper atmosphere, and they can't think of any good processes to produce that that aren't microbes)
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        Greaves first spotted the phosphine signal late one day in December 2018 as she was about to leave work. “There wasn’t anyone to talk to and I remember thinking the best way to celebrate was to make a curry, so I drove off to Sainsbury’s,” she said. theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/14/scientists-find-gas-linked-to-life-in-atmosphere-of-venus
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          i hope that quote goes down in history as the initial human response to signs of extraterrestrial life