I’m going to be sad if it turns out someone sneezed into it and was afraid to tell their manager.
That would be some stale big league chew if that were the case. By orders of billions of years. Making it the oldest wad of big league chew we know of in existence. ;)
The ban of smoking or tobacco products on TV. Up until the 1980s, it was common to see a pitcher up there with a mouth full of Kodiak or Chaw. Spitting their nasty tobacco-stained split all over the mound.
There are plenty of other articles on the isolation procedures they've taken so far to this point including putting off opening the container for months because of a stripped screw.
"I'm just asking questions".
Here is one sick paper covering some of the clean rooms https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20230005897
The curation team was integrated with mission design and operations from the beginning,
as early as 2004 (section 3.0). That integration allowed curation-specific needs such as
contamination knowledge to be incorporated into the mission design early, when adjustments had
minimal cost impact. Not only did this early integration inform planning for sample
characterization, cataloging, allocation, and the development of detailed sample handling and
containment approaches; it was also an investment in the longer term needs of the community.
Here we describe these preparations for OSIRIS-REx, as a reference for sample scientists and
curators and as a model for future sample return missions.Also, some sugars or amino acids are very common here and others very rare, and the commet probably has another mix.
Also, the ammount of isotopes of the atoms (like Carbon 14) is probably different.
> … consists of polymer-like materials extremely rich in nitrogen and oxygen.
For example, JWST observed early galaxies are both larger and more diverse materials than we expected. Means there's something new to learn!
Just as example in one video he refers to the field outside of the wire carrying the energy for electricity, however EM waves propagate at the speed of light and fall off at the square of distance. Electricity can travel thousands of miles without that kind of falloff but doesn’t propagate as fast because it’s electron density in the wires that causes what we think of as electricity. He then setups up an antenna and … well you get the idea.
Did you mean 'them' ?
Check out Blaise Arcas on MLST and Nick Land on Dwarkesh. Self organization might just be the second law of thermodynamics in action
how many planets meet that criteria? most of the closest have typcially been labeled "super Earths" so their gravity will be greater than 1g. what effect will that have?
This puts limits on how high the column of water can be raised, yet at 1g we can have monstrous trees like sequoias, so maybe many kinds of trees would die, but the survivors would just grow shorter.
Abisal creatures, who knows how much pressure they can adapt to? They have populated our oceans as deep as they can go, the planet has nothing stronger to challenge them.
what would be the atmospheric pressure at >1g? what effect would that play as well? not only would you be heavier, but you'd have to work harder to breathe.
again, lots of questions about the these differences that make it a lot more complicated than the right amino acids floating around in space.
It's not like I am a SuperEarther cultist or something, I just think life can adapt to a wider range of gravities. If you think about it, it's amazing that Earth life can withstand constant microgravity despite no evolutionary pressure in that direction. If microgravity is survivable, why not some degree of macrogravity?
"“All five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA, along with phosphates, have already been found in the Bennu samples brought to Earth by OSIRIS-REx,” said Furukawa. “The new discovery of ribose means that all of the components to form the molecule RNA are present in Bennu.”"
Let's hope it is not a contamination.