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I'm assuming this is in reference to exoplanet K2-18b? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.52|108.162.241.52]] 18:30, 13 September 2019 (UTC) | I'm assuming this is in reference to exoplanet K2-18b? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.52|108.162.241.52]] 18:30, 13 September 2019 (UTC) | ||
: I was thinking the same thing. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 18:41, 13 September 2019 (UTC) | : I was thinking the same thing. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 18:41, 13 September 2019 (UTC) | ||
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I'm seeing the actual comic alt-text as "Fire is actually a potential biosignature, since it means something is filling the atmosphere with an unstable gas like oxygen. If we find a planet covered in flames, it might be an indicator that it supports life—or used to, anyway, before the fire." Note the tab before "actually" and the odd characters after "life". But that's not what it has on this site. Is that difference intentional?[[Special:Contributions/172.68.70.70|172.68.70.70]] 19:07, 13 September 2019 (UTC) | I'm seeing the actual comic alt-text as "Fire is actually a potential biosignature, since it means something is filling the atmosphere with an unstable gas like oxygen. If we find a planet covered in flames, it might be an indicator that it supports life—or used to, anyway, before the fire." Note the tab before "actually" and the odd characters after "life". But that's not what it has on this site. Is that difference intentional?[[Special:Contributions/172.68.70.70|172.68.70.70]] 19:07, 13 September 2019 (UTC) | ||
: I've noticed a similar difference on other pages. For me, there are glitches in the title text on many XKCD pages, but here they appear as I assume they should. [[User:DanTheTransManWithoutAPlan|DanTheTransManWithoutAPlan]] ([[User talk:DanTheTransManWithoutAPlan|talk]]) 19:23, 13 September 2019 (UTC) | : I've noticed a similar difference on other pages. For me, there are glitches in the title text on many XKCD pages, but here they appear as I assume they should. [[User:DanTheTransManWithoutAPlan|DanTheTransManWithoutAPlan]] ([[User talk:DanTheTransManWithoutAPlan|talk]]) 19:23, 13 September 2019 (UTC) | ||
::AFAIS the XKCD-webserver claims incorrectly that the charset of the page is ''windows-1252''. --[[User:DaB.|DaB.]] ([[User talk:DaB.|talk]]) 19:49, 13 September 2019 (UTC) | ::AFAIS the XKCD-webserver claims incorrectly that the charset of the page is ''windows-1252''. --[[User:DaB.|DaB.]] ([[User talk:DaB.|talk]]) 19:49, 13 September 2019 (UTC) | ||
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A non-tidally-locked planet (like ours) needs to be firmly in a habitable zone (like ours) to allow the daily and seasonal cycles (like ours) to not send every square foot of the planet well outside any 'reasonable' range of conditions so that there's no possible adaptation possible by life (like ours). | A non-tidally-locked planet (like ours) needs to be firmly in a habitable zone (like ours) to allow the daily and seasonal cycles (like ours) to not send every square foot of the planet well outside any 'reasonable' range of conditions so that there's no possible adaptation possible by life (like ours). | ||
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It's a bit moot how all this would work, though, given our knowledge based upon post-facto knowledge of a sample of one life-bearing planet. Hard to know how little or much Earth is typical compared with everyone else. At least until my people come back to rescue me, when I'll have to remember to catch up on the basic classes I've obviously missed. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.210|162.158.34.210]] 22:01, 13 September 2019 (UTC) | It's a bit moot how all this would work, though, given our knowledge based upon post-facto knowledge of a sample of one life-bearing planet. Hard to know how little or much Earth is typical compared with everyone else. At least until my people come back to rescue me, when I'll have to remember to catch up on the basic classes I've obviously missed. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.210|162.158.34.210]] 22:01, 13 September 2019 (UTC) | ||
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