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A follow-up study refuted that. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-phosphine-venus-isnt.html

edit: A follow up to this follow up found that it had calibration errors and reported 3ppb on Venus. The original study however had 20ppb. https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09852


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


Soon this one will be too


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.


> Phosphorus [...] metal

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




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