September 24, 20232 yr Author Just over an hour ago the capsule landed with its sample. Edited September 24, 20232 yr by martin-w
September 24, 20232 yr Just now, martin-w said: Just over an hour to go till the capsule lands with its sample. Soooooo..... Nobody has ever seen the Andromeda Strain? 🙃 We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
September 24, 20232 yr Author 22 minutes ago, HiFlyer said: Soooooo..... Nobody has ever seen the Andromeda Strain? 🙃 That passed through my mind. 😀 It's being transported to a clean room so hopefully any alien organism will be contained. 😁 By the way, it's not an hour till it lands. You'll have to wind back to -1:32 for the landing 5000 degrees and 32G deceleration through the atmosphere. A billion miles to the asteroid, takes a sample and then back home safely. Astonishing. Edited September 24, 20232 yr by martin-w
September 24, 20232 yr 25 minutes ago, martin-w said: It's being transported to a clean room so hopefully any alien organism will be contained. "(Jason Dworkin, the project scientist for the OSIRIS-REx mission,).. added that the sample return is considered a Category 5 "Unrestricted Earth Return," which means the incoming samples have no restrictions, including those pertaining to biology." "Bennu is a small, dark object with a very dry and very hot surface. This means there is no evidence for flowing water on the asteroid, so it is not the type of object we expect to be conducive to sustaining life" As a precedent, samples from the Moon were found not to have any microbial life, so "NASA decided it was safe enough to stop further animal testing or quarantining astronauts and lab technicians working with lunar samples after the Apollo 14 mission in 1971" The clean room is to prevent chemical and, presumably, biological contamination of the samples, rather than to protect us. Edited September 24, 20232 yr by dmwalker Dugald Walker
September 24, 20232 yr Author 17 minutes ago, dmwalker said: Jason Dworkin, the project scientist for the OSIRIS-REx mission,).. added that the sample return is considered a Category 5 "Unrestricted Earth Return," which means the incoming samples have no restrictions, including those pertaining to biology." No, no, no!!! That means the alien pods are already hatching. 😲
September 24, 20232 yr 17 minutes ago, martin-w said: No, no, no!!! That means the alien pods are already hatching. The only Andromeda I know is "A for Andromeda" so I was thinking I'm not entirely against Earth being overrun by beautiful blonde women. Dugald Walker
September 24, 20232 yr Author I should mention, this isn't the end, the spacecraft in orbit that dropped off the sample, will now set course for Apophis. Edited September 24, 20232 yr by martin-w
September 24, 20232 yr 16 minutes ago, martin-w said: I should mention, this isn't the end, the spacecraft in orbit that dropped off the sample, will now set course for Apophis. Bennu is the interesting one for me as it is a C-type asteroid and may contain some interesting organic chemicals. I did not know that over 200 molecules, mostly organic, have been detected in interstellar space so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interstellar_and_circumstellar_molecules Dugald Walker
September 24, 20232 yr Author 36 minutes ago, dmwalker said: I'm not entirely against Earth being overrun by beautiful blonde women. Oh yes, but not if our beautiful blonde rulers consign males to menial tasks, and procreation takes place merely in a test tube.
September 24, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, dmwalker said: ..."so it is not the type of object we expect to be conducive to sustaining life" Famous last words, this is. I, for one, welcome our microbial overlords. Richard Chafey i7-8700K @4.8GHz - 32Gb @3200 - ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero - EVGA RTX3090 - 3840x2160 Res - KBSim Gunfighter - Thrustmaster Warthog dual throttles - Crosswind V3 pedals MSFS 2020, DCS
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September 24, 20232 yr "The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Wednesday, Oct. 11" "During the event, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) science team will discuss an initial analysis of the sample," Dugald Walker
September 25, 20232 yr 15 hours ago, martin-w said: I should mention, this isn't the end, the spacecraft in orbit that dropped off the sample, will now set course for Apophis. If another sample return had been possible, then April 2029 would have been the perfect time to do it Edited September 25, 20232 yr by Christopher Low Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
September 25, 20232 yr Author 2 hours ago, Christopher Low said: If another sample return had been possible, then April 2029 would have been the perfect time to do it No return Chris. Think its just a fly by of Apophis
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