Everything about it feels like BFD category for potential microbial life if true. And all the circumstantial details seem to point in the same direction. Potential hydrogen-rich ocean planet in a habitable zone, in alignment with theory about most plausible models for environments that might support life.
It's got no known abiotic process for being generated, but a clearly understood connection to life, and is apparently very reactive and would have to be actively re-generated at mass scale to sustainably show up in an atmosphere.
Nothing should be taken as proven, but it feels staggeringly plausible, and in my opinion would be the biggest of the "big if true" space stories I've ever seen in my lifetime.
I had to finish your comment before realizing you truly meant BFD as such and not (as I think more often the use is) sarcastically BFD. That said I agree.
BFD in this context standing for "Big Fucking Deal" (Urban Dictionary), not "Binary File Descriptor" (V.E.R.A. - Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms) I guess?
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Everything about it feels like BFD category for potential microbial life if true. And all the circumstantial details seem to point in the same direction. Potential hydrogen-rich ocean planet in a habitable zone, in alignment with theory about most plausible models for environments that might support life.
It's got no known abiotic process for being generated, but a clearly understood connection to life, and is apparently very reactive and would have to be actively re-generated at mass scale to sustainably show up in an atmosphere.
Nothing should be taken as proven, but it feels staggeringly plausible, and in my opinion would be the biggest of the "big if true" space stories I've ever seen in my lifetime.
I had to finish your comment before realizing you truly meant BFD as such and not (as I think more often the use is) sarcastically BFD. That said I agree.
BFD in this context standing for "Big Fucking Deal" (Urban Dictionary), not "Binary File Descriptor" (V.E.R.A. - Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms) I guess?