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The Earth’s moon is believed to have formed from a similar process, the researchers explained in a written statement, but it was more like a slap in the face rather than a kiss.

See above caveat from the article that makes the title a bit misleading.

A kiss-and-capture scenario works for Pluto-Charon because those two planets are so compositionally different.

The Earth and Moon are so compositionally similar, that in an impact scenario they would have needed to exchange a lot of material. It would need to be a catastrophic impact, not just a kissing/glancing blow. More of an explosive round that penetrates and detonates its energy. Boom and reform, not just a slap to the face.

Alternatively, somehow they formed from the same collection of material in an eddy in the protoplanetary disk. We’ve been seeing a lot of binary rogue planets with JWST., and still don’t understand the binary planet formation that we now observe to be common.

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Weeds are a healthy part of the environment and soil restoration.

Malicious misinformation is toxic and prevents anything healthy from growing.

Right, but this isn’t weeds in my garden, this is someone intentionally dumping toxic waste that’s killing me and anything I try to grow, including any weeds that might have tried popping up.

I’m more struggling with the intentional and ill-willed type.

That misinformation is too hard to fight.

“We haven’t really figured out the chemistry part of the puzzle yet,” said Vos. “But these results are really exciting because they are showing us that the abundances of molecules like methane and carbon dioxide could change from place to place and over time. If we are looking at an exoplanet and can get only one measurement, we need to consider that it might not be representative of the entire planet.”

Especially important because exoplanet transit spectroscopy can only look at a planet at one specific phase (time of year, seasonally), when the star and planet line up from the POV of Earth.

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I don’t want a pill. I want a full organ integrated into my body that releases hormones responsive to my body’s natural rhythms and diet and environment.

I don’t care if it’s via cybernetic augmentation or a stem-cell grown uterus combo package.

Avec les yeux ouverts, on peut voir le monde.

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They chose a word that evoked the Aryan and nazi heritage.

Nah, fuck Putin and fuck Trump and fuck anyone who apologizes for Aryan imagery.

I’m an antifascist troll who calls it out whenever it needs calling out.

Anyone with half a brain and knows history does.

The I and the Y serve the same phonetic function.

Then they slapped on an “e” to make it feminine. Standard French grammar.

It’s still racist even if it’s feminine.

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Nah, American space nut who has had this as a pet issue for decades.

And they conveniently left off the d in “ariadne”.

Obvious dogwhistle is obvious.

Changing the y to an i and adding an e to make it feminine doesn’t make it less racist.

Rocketry has an undeniably nazi past.

Naming Europe’s largest rocket program since the nazis any variation of “Aryan” is nazi imagery.

It’s not a joke, it’s a criticism of nazi heritage during a time when nazi imagery is resurfacing.

This is nazi imagery that never left the surface.

I agree it’s not funny.