Mint and caraway are chemically identical. So when it intersects your taste buds, your taste buds respond differently because of the different handedness of them. We have seen magnetic fields all throughout the solar system, but they're not that common. They're common on some of the bigger planets and I think just a couple of moons we've detected these kind of magnetic fields. But yes, you can't just have a liquid. It has to be conductive. And so a salty, a salty water can definitely do that. Oh, good. A salty ocean. That could create a liquid ocean underneath an icy crust like we see through many moons throughout the solarsystem. Yes. The
Have we disproven the idea of a “goldilocks zone”? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Paul Mecurio learn about space geology, magnetic fields, volcanoes, and the origins of life with cosmochemist Natalie Starkey, PhD.
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