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And now we've hit the ice queen trope. Yay.

Why does he overexplain very believable current science theory in application but spends 2 seconds on the kreb's cycle in the astrophage? Like why would an organism that "eats" light/CO2 need a biomolecular process that creates ATP? It's body doesn't have anything to use the ATP? Plus a byproduct of the kreb's cycle is CO2 so would it consume its own CO2? Why include a note that there is a kreb's cycle anyway?