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sonofgod | 5 years ago

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1910/1910.05224.pdf talks at length about it -- the result is known to be wildly invalid for gas giants, as they have the temperatures and pressures to have viable chemical pathways to phosphene.

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civilized|5 years ago

Yeah - the argument in the paper is a lot more nuanced than it's being represented in the media, where it's being flattened to the point of uselessness.