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Collecting Stardust
An anonymous reader writes "Washington University in St. Louis space scientists are reporting the first definitive laboratory dissection of an interstellar dust particle, thus pulling out each grain's history individually. When collected at high-altitude, the origin of six grains are from outside our solar system. 'Space' is full of dust, or ejected material from long-dead stars. In this case, 3 of the 6 dust grains are from red giant stars, and perhaps 2 are from supernovae. In the next 5 years, there are six missions targeting a rendezvous with either a comet or asteroid, including the Stardust mission to return the first extraterrestrial samples since Apollo. That only leaves 100 billion comets left to explore in our own solar system's Oort cloud." Update: 02/28 17:22 GMT by M : Fixed university name.
Jesus fucking Christ people, get a hold of yourselves.
A few weeks ago, we lost 8 brave souls on the space shuttle Columbia as it exploded over middle earth. Our President is talking about invading Iran, which could pose serious threats to our own safety in the long-term.
And here we are, as belligerent as ever, browsing Slashdot cluelessly and reading about how we just got a few grains of star dust and only have 100 billion more to go. Great.
You clowns need to be lambasted by a clue-by-four. Get your priorities straight.
Let's fix our world first and then move on to space.
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
The official name of the school is Washington University in Saint Louis. At least get the name of the school right. That's like calling Harvard University the "University of Harvard". You sound like a moron to anyone who went there.
For future reference it is NOT any of the following:
University of Washington
Washinton State University
Western Washington Universty
Central Washington University
George Washington University
Washington and Lee University
because slashdot's editors are facists
"French Asshole" is a redundancy.
Hey dickhead, don't post lyrics if you can't get them right, ok? You've got it so screwed up I don't even know what song you're talking about.
Putz.
You're probably gay, too.
That is all.
Wait, no it isn't.
Ok, yes it is.
Unitarian? Not going to help you in the afterlife, jerk.
Imagine being chained to a wall, and then imagine somebody with a filet knife SLOWLY peeling your skin off. Can you imagine how bad that would hurt? Now imagine pain a MILLION times worse. And imagine feeling that pain for all eternity. That's what hell is like. That's where you're going to go if you don't accept Jesus as your Lord and personal savior. And when you're roasting there, don't say you weren't warned, jerk.
BTW stupid troll. We are not invading "Iran", we are invading Iraq, and if you don't want another 9/11 you'd best rethink your position on that too.