RE: Curating the Internet: Science and technology micro-summaries for October 26, 2019
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While it is observable that experiencing a worse pain causes the perception of a lesser pain to diminish, I far prefer - as I'm sure most folks do - the fact that orgasm reduces experience of pain by ~50%.
As to life on Mars, there should be a slight caveat: it seems likely we have shown that life exists there, but we haven't found it. For instance, a hunter would not claim to have successfully taken game because he found it's tracks.
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On the pain article, I was thinking along the same lines, although with less specificity. I was just thinking that inducing a pleasurable feeling at a remote location might be preferable to inducing pain. I'm not sure if I just didn't read the article carefully enough or if it was omitted, but I'm not entirely clear on what they use for their signaling mechanism.
Good point that finding evidence of life is not the same as finding life. It's very easy to accidentally word that in a way that's not exactly correct.