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		f00zz on Sept 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus – an... This is funny considering that Lem wrote thinly-veiled satire of life in the Soviet Union (e.g. "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub")

interfixus on Sept 14, 2020 [–]

In my admittedly puerile mind and in my native language it's funny because, seriously, lem means dick.

TheOtherHobbes on Sept 14, 2020 | [–]

Which is bizarre because in English Dick also means dick.

What are the odds?

Almost as likely as the suggestion that just this once, swamp gas really is evidence of aliens.

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