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Re:Scientists Discover Phosphorus on Enceladus by oboes on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @09:39PM (#36335366)
This has been discussed a lot at the time, but it turned out to be an error.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus#Phosphine

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Re:Scientists Discover Phosphorus on Enceladus by romusha on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:04PM (#36335937)
Soon this one will be too
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Re:Scientists Discover Phosphorus on Enceladus by xorbax on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:13PM (#36335981)
Uh, no, I wouldn't bet on that.

You can guess that they're overselling phosphorous as a landmark

Finding organic carbon everywhere used to seem very exciting - turns out that's just the fate of low-number metals in the universe. Who'da thunk such a thing.

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Re:Scientists Discover Phosphorus on Enceladus by mitthrowaway2 on Thursday June 15, 2023 @12:22AM (#36336362)
> Phosphorus [...] metal

What...? Oh, right. Cosmology. https://xkcd.com/2340/

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