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nkrisc ◴[] No.43643720[source]
> "Our new study shows that this supply may only be sufficient to sustain a very small population of microbes weighing a total of only a few kilograms at most – equivalent to the mass of a small dog," Affholder said. "Such a tiny biosphere would average less than one cell per liter of water over Titan's entire vast ocean."

Assuming for a moment that some life does exist in the subsurface ocean, I imagine it would be most likely that you would then expect to find very, very rare, but highly concentrated pockets of life?

Unfortunately I couldn't read the linked study because I was stuck in an endless CAPTCHA loop of trying to find an image of a refrigerator among a varying set of only helicopters, ships, and avocados. I feel absurd just writing that.

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38 ◴[] No.43644882[source]
> Unfortunately I couldn't read the linked study because I was stuck in an endless CAPTCHA loop of trying to find an image of a refrigerator among a varying set of only helicopters, ships, and avocados

I got through on the first try, and I block third party JavaScript with a whitelist

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1. nkrisc ◴[] No.43645754[source]
The one I got told to me find refrigerators and then never showed me a refrigerator. I clicked "skip" many times and it just kept going until I gave up.
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2. misnome ◴[] No.43646031[source]
I’m sorry to suggest this, but have you considered that you might be a robot?
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3. throwaway777452 ◴[] No.43646342[source]
You probably misread it and it said to pick objects that go inside the refrigerator, so you were supposed to pick the avocados.
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4. seanhunter ◴[] No.43646803[source]
You don’t put avocados in a refrigerator in many countries of the world. IF you do, they will just go brown without ever becoming ripe.
5. kridsdale3 ◴[] No.43646821[source]
These days it's hard to tell.
6. AStonesThrow ◴[] No.43647120[source]
I am reminded of the intersection between Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, and xkcd 2228:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BombproofApplian...

https://m.xkcd.com/2228/

Hey, wouldn’t a refrigerator be an ideal space vessel for humans to explore Titan?

7. nkrisc ◴[] No.43653463[source]
I contemplated this last night as I sat and stared at the wall while waiting for my family to wake for their morning routine. After much deliberation and calculation and running many simulations I arrived at the conclusion that I am most probably not a robot.