I've worked with phosphine in an industrial setting; anyone who asked about telling me about it out of the blue would be extremely sus.
I'd probably go outside and put lots of distance between me and them.
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I've worked with phosphine in an industrial setting; anyone who asked about telling me about it out of the blue would be extremely sus.
I'd probably go outside and put lots of distance between me and them.
Not really, the life on Venus thing was so far from reality that it might as well have been a religious idea
There is probably a law against that.
Talking about possibilities isn't the answer there. Talking about what is known, is. Otherwise it isn't science you're engaging with but fantasy and speculation, the same thing faith relies on to sell.