Ey nice. Thanks for the podcast recommendation!

I mean, afaik DNA evidence is not the end all be all evidence it is often made out to be, right? It should be used together with other evidence. After all, if you find DNA of some person somewhere, what does that prove in and of itself? And then ofc there is the procedure itself that could go wrong like with anything, see the Phantom of Heilbronn for an example lol

I mean, probably eventually. The universe might in fact end some time. But we'll put up a fight for sure lol

>...after humans drive themselves to extinction...

*if

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Yea, true. As I say, very rare. But possible. It's also not beyond the realm of possibility that better techniques for analysing fossils we already have will grant us a better idea in the future.

I think there is, right? We have skin impressions, and pigment can in fact be preserved, like in feather fossils we have. It's rare for sure, because it requires excellent preservation, but there are absolutely ways we can know

See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_coloration

Well, as I understand it, the vast majority of coal comes from, well, the carboniferous (litt. 'coal-bearing') and also from the permian. Dinosaurs didn't exist at that time.

Petroleum is found in sedimentary rocks, and is mostly zooplankton and algae. You know, sediment. Zooplankton is indeed animals, but things like fish eggs and small larvae of various stuff. For petroleum to form, organic matter needs to settle to the bottom of a body of water and decompose without oxygen.

Dinosaurs don't tend to do that in large amounts, for a couple of reasons.

1: Dinosaurs are vanishingly small percentage of the biomass of an ecosystem, especially compared with plants

2: As far as I know there were no (fully) aquatic dinosaurs, so it's not a likely place for them to die to begin with

In conclusion, saying that fossil fuels are made of dinosaurs is about as correct as saying that peanut butter is made of flies because the occasional fly part might be in there. It's misleading. I'm not a paleontologist or geologist, so feel free to correct me ofc, but I'm fairly confident it's not dinos lol

How many times does it need to be said that oil doesn't come from dinosaurs for this stubborn myth to finally disappear?

I thought that was the implication OP was making, if not I apologise.
Yea I mean...

r*pe is r*pe
I like getting fucked in the ass. I wouldn't like to be r*ped

This is some majorly fucked up logic

Definitely. Generalization is one of the most common and well-understood types of semantic change. Even if it wasn't in dictionaries, whether or not a word is commonly used in a certain way is an observable fact lol. But yea, they are right to list that broader usage of course

Sure. In that case there are plenty of course

If you're big into dictionary definitions, wiktionary has the following:

"A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system"

And OED lists: "any star around which planets move"

The thing is, the usage of a word determines its meaning, not any one definition. And the word sun is in fact habitually used to mean 'star,' just read or listen to works of sci-fi I guess. If you pretend it's not, you're simply not capturing the full meaning.

Physicists usually use the term sound wave to mean acoustic waves in any medium, there is still sound under water for example

Why specifically an atmosphere?

True, true, sound can't travel if there's nothing through which to travel. But of course every time there is something, for example every star and planet in the universe, there is an opportunity for sound waves to travel. And that's obviously a lot more common than liquid water

Haha, I mean you're right. A Jeffery, like all concepts, is simply that which we habitually call a Jeffery. Which can be many different things I guess

Not all Karens are named Karen either ;)

Sure, that's why I asked what you personally meant I guess, I'm not sure whether 'sun' is always used in astronomy with a super rigorous definition, although I've heard 'sun-like star' plenty as well.
Afaik it is thought that most stars do in fact have planets, but ofc I'm also not an astronomer lol

What makes something a sun, according to you?
Like, a star of the same type?

>Since most planets don’t have an atmosphere

I wouldn't be too sure about that, even in our own solar system that's not true.
Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, Venus, Earth, Mars all have atmospheres. Only Mercury really has very little

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>no sound would travel unless the sound originated on the surface or within the planet

And it does. NASA's InSight lander is specifically designed to study seismic waves on Mars for example. Also, if a planet has an atmosphere, it has winds ofc

Regardless, sound waves still exist if you can't personally hear them, I think that's the main point

How so? Sound waves can travel through any medium, be it solid, liquid or gas. Liquid water, while there is a lot of it, is more restricted, right?

Obligatory mention that women do ofc have adam's apples, it just tends to be less visible

Well, you're presumably an English speaker. Go find literally any Latin literature and find out...

Okay but isn't the point that our planet and our sun aren't the first ones ever? Like, solar systems exist and have existed billions of years before ours, so why wouldn't there be life older than ours all over the place? Why assume life started at a similar time?

Isaac Arthur recently did an episode of his podcast about this possible solution. I highly recommend his content in general, he has many episodes devoted to the fermi paradox. I personally don't believe this is very likely to be the actual answer, but the discussion is still interesting