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Tue. 09/15 - Life on Venus & Responsible Shrek Fans

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Science, Tech News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Scientists have detected phosphine on Venus. Is it a sign of life? What it’s like to be in the virtual audience of a televised game. If you have trouble breathing when wearing a mask, here’s an explanation why and some tips to help. And Shrekfest is going virtual this year. Also, Shrekfest is a thing that exists. Sponsor: Beachbody on Demand, Text "GOODNEWS" to 303030 for a free trial membership Links: Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds (NY Times) Announcement About Research on Venus's Chemistry (NASA) Carl Sagan predicted life on Venus in 1967. We may be close to proving him right. (Mashable) Chemical that shouldn’t be there spotted in Venus’ atmosphere (Ars Technica) I Was a Floating Head at an NBA Game. It Gets Weirder (Wired) Why It Feels Like You Can't Breathe Inside Your Face Mask — and What to Do About It (Discover Mag) Shrekfest is going online this year (A/V Club)  Here's everything you missed at Shrekfest, where irony goes to die (A/V Club)  Shrekfest Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter Tech Meme Ride Home 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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Scientists have detected phosphine on Venus. Is it a sign of life?

0:47.6

What it's like to be in the virtual audience of a televised game?

0:52.5

If you have trouble breathing when wearing a mask, here is an explanation of why and some

0:58.8

tips to help.

1:00.1

And Shrekfest is going virtual this year.

1:04.0

Also, Shrekfest is a thing that exists.

1:07.9

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:14.1

So, Here are some of the cool things from the news today. So the big news yesterday was that Venus may hold signs of life.

1:20.6

Microbial life, specifically, not any alien friends or foes.

1:25.6

A team of astronomers published their findings in a pair of peer-reviewed

1:28.6

papers yesterday saying that they had detected phosphine in Venus's atmosphere. They say the primary

1:34.7

explanation could be that something is alive on Venus. Quoting the New York Times,

1:41.0

chemists compare phosphine to a pyramid, one atom of phosphorus topping a base of three

1:45.7

hydrogen atoms. The NASA spacecraft Cassini detected it in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn.

1:51.9

In that setting, said Clara Sousa Silva, a molecular astrophysicist at Harvard University and one of

1:56.9

the paper's co-authors, life is not necessary to form phosphine. The immense heat and

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