Fri. 05/07 - No Shrooms on Mars, Just Misinformation

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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No, there is not evidence of mushrooms on Mars, and the story of how that misinformation spread yesterday goes even deeper than you may think. Part of the rocket China launched at the end of last month is hurtling uncontrollably back to Earth and no one exactly knows where it will land. And LEGO dropped an ASMR mixtape. Sponsors: Mint Mobile, Get a new wireless plan for just $15 a month mintmobile.com/kottke Our Opinions Are Correct, Subscribe on Apple Podcasts ouropinionsarecorrect.com Links: No, NASA photos are not evidence of fungus growing on Mars, sorry (CNET) Experts Shred Paper Claiming to Identify Mushrooms on Mars (Futurism) Scientists Claim to Spot Fungus Growing on Mars in NASA Rover Photos (Futurism) Fungi on Mars? Researchers claim signs of life on red planet (South China Morning Post) No one is sure where this hunk of Chinese rocket is gonna land (A/V Club) Huge rocket looks set for uncontrolled reentry following Chinese space station launch (Space News) Pentagon Not Planning To Shoot Down Chinese Rocket As It Hurtles Uncontrollably Toward Earth (Forbes) Lego share soothing new 'White Noise' playlist of the sound of Lego bricks (NME) A New Mindful Mix: the LEGO Group releases a soothing soundscape created with thousands of LEGO® bricks (LEGO) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.3	No, there is not evidence of mushrooms on Mars, and the story of how that information spread
0:49.2	yesterday goes even deeper than you may think. Part of the rocket China launched at the end of last month is hurtling uncontrollably back
0:59.0	to earth and no one knows exactly where and when it will land.
1:04.6	And Lego dropped an ASMR mixtape.
1:08.3	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:14.4	Yesterday, there was a bit of excitement online about a new paper claiming fungi had been found
1:20.7	growing on the surface of Mars. The news really made the rounds, buoyed perhaps by Reddit
1:26.8	co-founder Alexis O'Hannian,
1:28.5	tweeting out one of the articles on it and tagging Elon Musk saying, quote,
1:32.9	Just think, hashtag space shrooms are going to be intense a.F, end quote.
1:39.6	But sadly, the whole thing was a bunch of crap, basically.
1:44.2	Just the latest in a long line of one particular hacks attempts to get his pseudoscience hogwash
1:50.2	published in legitimate journals.
1:52.6	So the claim that was actually published in the journal Advances in Microbiology and
1:57.4	included co-authors from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, George Mason University, and other institutions that should know better, was that images taken by NASA's rovers on Mars, as well as its reconnaissance orbiters' high-rise camera, show several fungus-like organisms, and that they believe the images show fungus because, quoting the paper,
2:18.6	fungi thrive in radiation-intense environments, end quote.
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