Talk:3275: Calibration Nobel
say what? -- SectorCorruptor (talk) 16:08, 22 July 2026 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- What? Radish (talk) 16:45, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Nice. (imaginary upvote) RadiantRainwing (talk) 17:21, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
Does anyone know why the incomplete explanations count is wrong here because on 3274 it is 41 but here its 40 98.220.251.43 17:56, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Purge the page cache (press refresh on the comment section for 3274) Logalex8369 (talk) 19:08, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
ponytail as Dr. Adams seems to be a sparsely recurring character: see 2527, 1954 --2600:4040:505D:CE00:74F5:1A61:8332:3082 18:03, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
Could this be related to all the various times scientists have declared "evidence" for extreterrestrial life? (e.g. 1996-Mars meteorite ALH84001, 2000-Mars orbiter images of fresh erosion, 2024-Leapord spots) 64.203.66.182 20:43, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
This may be a reference to the Viking Mars lander experiments, which touched down on Mars 50 years ago as of a couple of days ago. These experiments notably may have found evidence of microbial life: it was initially believed they did, then some rebuttals appeared claiming they didn't, and then later those rebuttals themselves were found to be in error. It remains a matter of some controversy to this day among astrobiologists. There is currently a grassroots movement by some scientists, including Dr. Steven Benner, seeking to re-run similar microbial life finding experiments (which AFAIK have not been performed since--what are they hiding?!) on a new landing mission as soon as possible, trying to the anniversary of the landing as a focal point to drum up attention (he also wrote a book). The only reason I know about this is this Event Horizon podcast episode with Dr. Benner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6h-BHqwOGQ. Perhaps this is a tenuous explanation, but I feel like the timing, subject matter and Hairy's justification (which is pretty similar to the justification used by the people who sought to reject/refute the Viking experiment results) match up closely enough that it may not be a coincidence. 87.95.205.220 21:57, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- I went with the 'phosphine on Venus' thing, in my own edit as most like the "microbes on Titan". There's a lot of possible examples, of course. Nearly mentioned the Martian 'leopard-spots', as above, too, which is the most 'topical' one I can think of, but the comic situation had an air of "current life, doing current life-stuff" possible misinterpretation, rather than the possible residues of past-life. Or more long-standing mysteries - though I suppose an anniversary might make it also a current thing. Meh... we could just keep adding more and more examples, as we think of them, I suppose. 92.23.5.92 22:48, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- "Arsenic life" came to my mind. 87.75.47.64 23:32, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
Fermi's Nobel Prize was for "demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons" (fide Wikipedia). The first part is a mistaken interpretation; what he had actually discovered were new, radioactive, isotopes (fission products) of known elements. 87.75.47.64 23:37, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Yep, apparently because when he was looking at the samples in front of him, he stopped at lead. 202.153.211.166 05:45, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
The chosen names of the scientists, Dr. Adams, and Dr. Smith, are not coincidental.
Adam Smith is Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Outreach, formerly Nobel Media, the public relations office of the Nobel Foundation. Docpi (talk) 06:03, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
- I wondered if Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones were references to Lost in Space and Indiana Jones respectively. 149.5.107.54 09:12, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
I cannot help it, but I despise the mention of a Nobel prize in "economics" which is basically free riding on hard science. 2a02:8206:adbe:3900:dba1:5494:5b7b:d296 (talk) 15:45, 28 July 2026 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- I don't think peace and literature are generally regarded as hard sciences either. Besides, all sciences are ultimately free-riding on maths, and that doesn't even get a Nobel. 82.13.184.33 15:57, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- There is no Nobel price in economics actually. There's only the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, which is technically an entirely different thing that just so happens to also be determined by the Nobel Committee. This is because the national bank of Sweden wanted to make an economics prize and Sweden was already known for the Nobel prizes so they paid the Nobel Committee to do their prize and purposefully made it as confusing as possible to increase the prestige of it. 2605:A601:A65F:7E00:6088:80C6:B56B:2196 22:44, 1 August 2026 (UTC)