00:28 <raptop> today in cool spacecraft proposals: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13189

00:28 <galois> [arXiv] “Onboard Science Instrument Autonomy for the Detection of Microscopy Biosignatures on the Ocean Worlds Life Surveyor” Mark Wronkiewicz, Jake Lee, Lukas Mandrake et al. — «The quest to find extraterrestrial life is a critical scientific endeavor with civilization-level implications. Icy moons in our solar system are promising targets for exploration because their liquid oceans make them potential habitats for microscopic…»

00:29 <raptop> weird star remains ambiguously weird: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13623

00:29 <galois> [arXiv] “An enigma of Przybylski's star: is there promethium on its surface?” Sergei M. Andrievsky, Sergey A. Korotin, Klaus Werner et al. — «We carried out a new attempt to check for the presence promethium lines in the spectrum of HD101065 (Przybylski's star). The neutron capture element promethium does not have stable isotopes and the maximum half-life time is about 18 years. Thus its presence in this peculiar star would…»

15:51 <raptop> !8 is JUICE Galileo 2 now?

15:51 <galois> raptop: yes

15:51 <raptop> F

15:52 <SnoopJ> 🤞

21:26 <raptop> OH: "this detector is 70 cm across"

21:27 <raptop> (It's an H4RG10)

23:58 <raptop> looks like the aliens can't listen to our phones: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13779

23:58 <galois> [arXiv] “Simulation of the Earth's radio leakage from mobile towers as seen from selected nearby stellar systems” Ramiro C. Saide, Michael A. Garrett, Nalini. Heeralall-Issur — «Mobile communication towers represent a relatively new but growing contributor to the total radio leakage associated with planet Earth. We investigate the overall power contribution of mobile communication towers to the Earth\'s radio leakage budget, as…»