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Meg Lanning: 'I wanted to dig a hole and jump in'

“Are you going to have nightmares…” “Yes!” The question wasn’t even fully formed yet and Meg Lanning had provided the answer. No, she wasn’t going to sleep well after hitting the catch that would give footer Alana King a hat-trick, her country’s second in the women’s T20Is. To be honest, Lanning, the Australia captain, was a kind person about the situation, from burying his face in the Edgbaston grass there, where if you gave him 99 equal chances, he would take it, to grimacing in the background as reporters questioned King a few yards away. afterwards about the incident and then confronted the same reporters, knowing very well what was going to happen. “I’m going to have nightmares,” Lanning said. “I wanted to dig a hole and jump into it as fast as I could. I tried my best and I dropped it.” Softening the blow somewhat was the fact that Australia had one foot in the Commonwealth Games semi-finals with Barbados 53 for 8 at the time. Barbados managed just 64 before being blown away.

The Mars spacecraft may have to dig deeper than expected to find traces of life

Mars explorers may have to dig deeper for signs of ancient life. New research shows that certain protein-building amino acids that could be evidence of ancient life on Earth Mars more susceptible to radiation than scientists thought, meaning any amino acids left behind by life forms might only survive if they were buried deep beneath the planet’s surface. “Our results show that amino acids are destroyed by cosmic rays in Martian surface rock and regolith at a much faster rate than previously thought,” Alexander Pavlov, a space scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a statement. statement . “Current Mars rover missions are drilling to about two inches (about five centimeters). At that depth, it would take only 20 million years to completely destroy the amino acids.” Related: Possible sign of Martian life? Curiosity rover finds ‘tantalizing’ Red Planet organics While 20 million years may seem like a very long time, it is a brief period in the