Joudodo wrote:Jeg lest fra en nettside det følgende setning: "Planeten ligger knappe 20 lysår unna, men har en tykk atmosfære av karbondioksid som kan umuliggjøre liv." Hva mener "umuliggjøre", Jeg vil tro at "umulig"+"gjøre" = "make impossible", men atmosfære av karbondioksid ville gjøre det mulig for liv, ikke umulig, nei?
"The planet lies just short of(*) 20 lightyears away, but it has a thick atmosphere of Carbon Dioxide which could make it impossible for life (to exist there)".
* "knapt" is a bit less than, I can't remember a good equivalent in english to compare it to right now.
The sentence as it stands states that there is a huge amount of CO^2 there, and that this "makes the possibility of life impossible". I won't delve into the biology here, but I guess a too large percentage of CO2 compared to for instance O2 would decrease the possibility a bit.