I’d never heard of them, either. But the top in those pictures is super cute and now I’m looking into buying some of their stuff. So, well played, USOC.

Silly question: How is one able to actually trademark “Rio?”

When are the big companies and USOC going to learn to just let it go? I’ve never heard of Oiselle but good for them for sponsoring some of the lesser known athletes. The big companies let a winner slip through their grasp so now nobody can celebrate the athlete’s success? I probably am not the market for Oiselle, but…

There are two important biases we will see in the comments. The first is the one that unequivocably denies any sort of life outside our own world existing until proof is established that it does. The other is the one that simply says “we don’t know” therefore the equations are “useless”.

I’m sure life in itself is pretty common. If panspermia does happen even in a small scale, microbes could be anywhere and everywhere.

For example, we don’t know that a ‘big moon’ is necessary to create a stable biosphere, only that WE have one. Sure, there are possible advantages we can identify in the context of life on earth, but those are huge assumptions and we don’t have a null case to test. It’s just as possible that life would thrive MORE on…

Careful, that’s pretty anthropomorphic. All hats aren’t dunce caps, they can be bowlers or top hats or something lady Gaga would come up with.

You’re assuming that the life must be complex human or animal species. Don’t forget that simple life forms like bacteria can be quite hardy in the harshest of conditions.

At one time we were the Center of the Universe, but a dude with a telescope found another planet with a moon, so we were NOT the center of the Universe. Then we ONLY knew of ONE system of planets that orbited a star, but with a good telescope we found out there there were other planets orbits Stars also. Then they…

Well, we do know that planets around other stars are abundant, and we also know that on Earth, it didn’t take too long for life to arise, which is what “easy” generally means in this context (if it were hard, there would have been many more “failures” in Earth’s history and thus, it would have taken longer for life to…

Finally somebody gets it.

Totally. Remember that fairy dust is also necessary. And I remember someone mentioning unicorn farts as well...