What runs across my mind is we're seeing possibilities of microbial
life on Mars and Venus.
That really increases the habitable zone for the exoplanets we're looking at

From a Traveller perspective, it makes the real world look a little
more game like.

From a "someday when we get Jump drive" standpoint, I'm wondering if
we're looking at a fair number of planets with life but no sophonts.
That would be an interesting galaxy, wouldn't it?

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 12:16 PM Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson
at port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> Much fuss was made on the news last night about possibly "life" on Venus - although I knew enough to not get too excited.
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> Still it was both interesting and interesting to see how it got presented.
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> A little bit more detail in this which I've come across and may be more of interest to Travellers looking to either make something of an inhospitable world, or give PCs a surprise when not expecting it.
> https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/09/15/what-phosphine-means-on-venus/
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> links to the actual science at the end.
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> I quite like the idea that all the while we were looking for life on our neighbour one way it actually turned out to have been on our neighbour the other way!  (This is assuming it gets found of course.)
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> tc
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> While I'm here, and related to another thread, I thought this was rather interesting:
> https://twitter.com/lynneguist/status/1305527603806298112
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