> I expect scientists will be working hard to propose non-biological processes that could explain these results.
(Serious question, and I don't mean 'good' or 'bad'.)
Would that be a negative result, or positive? Or does the phrase have no meaning without reference to what you're looking at; so it'd be simultaneously a negative result for life on Venus, and a positive result for abiotic phosphine production processes?
(Serious question, and I don't mean 'good' or 'bad'.)
Would that be a negative result, or positive? Or does the phrase have no meaning without reference to what you're looking at; so it'd be simultaneously a negative result for life on Venus, and a positive result for abiotic phosphine production processes?