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They certainly won't find water on a 60C surface.
Why not? Plenty of 60C water on the earth's surface.
There's a flurry on new info. In particular the variance of surface temperature at the lunar south pole, from 60 degree Celsius on the lunar surface, to -10 degree Celsius if you probe just 8cm below the surface https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FF4hsyEQaEAAB-AS.png A whole seventy degree temperature difference over such a small height delta. There were a bunch of scientists trying to explain this on Indian news TV…
Please edit provocations and swipes out of your comments here. The provocation "shithole" led to a bunch of flamewar that I'm certain you didn't intend, and yet your comment is responsible for starting it. (I've detached those subthreads as offtopic and collapsed them, but they can be found at the bottom of the page.) The site guidelines specifically include rules to prevent this kind of thing, so it would be good to…
Would I have written it myself? Probably not, especially given who recently popularized the term "shithole". But I think as a rhetorical device it did what he wanted it to in his writing.
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Why not? Plenty of 60C water on the earth's surface.
Is there? Hottest surface temp recorded on earth was 56.7C, no? And Death Valley isn't known for the presence of water (when it's anywhere close to that hot).
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Why not? Plenty of 60C water on the earth's surface.
Is there? Hottest surface temp recorded on earth was 56.7C, no? And Death Valley isn't known for the presence of water (when it's anywhere close to that hot).
Hottest air temperature at just above surface level; excluding several localized extremes like measurements around vulcanos or asphalt roads.
Asphalt surfaces can easily reach 60+°C on days with direct sunlight and little to no wind, and vulcanos supply new surface all the time with temperatures far north of 100°C.
There's a flurry on new info. In particular the variance of surface temperature at the lunar south pole, from 60 degree Celsius on the lunar surface, to -10 degree Celsius if you probe just 8cm below the surface https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FF4hsyEQaEAAB-AS.png A whole seventy degree temperature difference over such a small height delta. There were a bunch of scientists trying to explain this on Indian news TV…
Honestly super happy for India for pulling this off. People don't seem to acknowledge the amount of science that's been coming out of India for a long time now and I hope this enlightens people a little on the fact that the country has a lot of strong intellect to share with the world.
> ISRO announced the rover’s LIBS results definitively confirm the presence of sulfur at the landing site. Additionally, preliminary scans detect traces of aluminum, iron, calcium, chromium, titanium, manganese, silicon, and oxygen in the soil. Further hydrogen detection efforts are underway. What about hydrogen? No hydrogen means no water where they're currently landed, right?
There are believed to be such surfaces in permanently shadowed craters on the poles of the moon. They won't find any in any place where the rover can charge, but they might do short trips into shadowed spots, I don't know.
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> Is is about their DNA (nature) or their culture (nurture)? It's always about culture. The British Empire employed a strategy of divide-and-rule: it encouraged and amplified the caste system, and also encouraged the partitioning of society along religious lines. On top of that, it layered the English class system, and a horribly-botched partition. I don't mean to imply that Indians don't have agency; they've had 80…
Things are getting worse? On what metric?
80 years isn't a long time, and over many years I expect it will be sorted out.
/me not been to India for 40 years, opinions based mostly on mainstream news
What is the significance of each element being found?
There's a flurry on new info. In particular the variance of surface temperature at the lunar south pole, from 60 degree Celsius on the lunar surface, to -10 degree Celsius if you probe just 8cm below the surface https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FF4hsyEQaEAAB-AS.png A whole seventy degree temperature difference over such a small height delta. There were a bunch of scientists trying to explain this on Indian news TV…
On that graph: isn't it conventional for the independent variable (in this case, depth) to be on the x-axis?