Lester pick — Episode 8 (K2-18b, DMS, and exoplanet biosignatures)

52:57>> Uh aliens coming soon. Story number two, K218B DMS dimethyl sulfide. >> Dimethyl sulfide. >> Look at me. I'm learning something this season, y'all. Um, episode 8. >> That was episode 8. >> Uh, this this was the the the the >> this was the drama. >> This was um the uh uh best evidence yet. >> Yeah. Best evidence yet on BBC. >> Yeah. Of of life. >> And then a week later >> later immediately. And so I think the reason I like the story is because it really we really covered how the peerreview process works. Yeah. when the the the delta between the news headline and where the science is and how each of these universities or labs is competing.

53:37Yeah. >> And and and why the process of science works because of reproducibility because but also just you explaining to me how we do the atmospheric >> uh understanding. >> Yeah. their atmospheric retrieval and how we do that transit method to figure out the and what I loved about this story was how the the postoc who put out the paper a week after >> that like he actually met he re he re um I guess he reinsmed he didn't retweet but on Instagram he reposted our real about that and he was like am I the drama because [laughter] we were literally talking about how a week later he's like

54:18Like that was that Oxford Cambridge beef. >> God, >> that was great. Yeah. And it it was shout out to Tyler for um >> Yes. >> for for posting that. That was dope. >> That was great. Uh great story. So again, as you can see, I have a real space a real uh space orientation to the first two. The third one that uh was really fascinating to me was the story we covered on ankoan. >> Yeah.