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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.
Oingo Boingo
Dust grains are like armageddon asteroids if you're a tiny extra-terrestrial.
I'd rather collect Goldussssssst
Yeah, with only 6 billion people on this planet, we couldn't possibly work on two or three things at once could we?
Oops, sure we can.
"Old man yells at systemd"
Amsterdam Vallon (639622) is a troll... watch, he'll post again about ten lines down with the opposite viewpoint, and one of these will get modded... hey mods, lets get this one down to -1...
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
Stop the QWERTY curse which is propagating from the age of the typewriter.
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
"Our President is talking about invading Iran,"
I'm sure Saddam Hussein will be relieved to discover that Bush has changed targets yet again.
1- ITYM Iraq, dumbass.
2- "Our President" ? I'm Irish.
It'll take you 2 weeks to learn but afterwards you'll curse every keystroke you wasted on QWERTY.
I typed this text with a hardwired dvorak keyboard in less than 1.2 seconds.
You stupid fuck.
Amsterdam is an oustanding troll, dutifully decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio of this shithole site until it implodes under the weight of its own self-importance.
Stupid, mindless idiots such as yourself are the reason this ship is sinking. Amsterdam's just playing in the band as the deck goes under.
AS long as I live, NEVER will I forget the 9/11 and the Columbia TRAGEDY which took place over middle-earth.
I WILL always REMEMBER.
I believe this is disrespect for the dead and their families and all the innocent victims: Prentending like nothing happened and talking about sci-fi stories about moving to space, etc.
People must get their priorities straight first of all. Thank you.
I have an offtopic question.
I have a "study abroad" option for Norway (southern-most tip). Has anybody been there? Did you like it? What are the colleges like out there?
Any help would be appreciated. Mods - please refrain from sending this to hell until AFTER I get a few replies - thanks.
...And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me." - Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984)
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
Woodstock by Joni Mitchell
-kgj
Finally, someone else collecting Stardust. There are enough remixes out there.
Cassius does a good one.
Vinyl: It's what's for mixing.
Keep your packets off my GNU/Girlfriend!