• Osiris-Rex: Asteroid Bennu 'is a journey back to our origins'

    From StarDust@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 21 23:50:30 2023
    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66844738

    I have a feeling, it's just another big hope?
    Answer for the origins of life?
    BS!
    Military, car industry is looking for rare metals out in space for the future!

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  • From Chris L Peterson@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 22 07:26:06 2023
    On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 23:50:30 -0700 (PDT), StarDust <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66844738

    I have a feeling, it's just another big hope?
    Answer for the origins of life?
    BS!
    Military, car industry is looking for rare metals out in space for the future!

    This is not about the origins of life. It is about the origins of some
    of the organic chemicals that we presume to have been required for
    life to develop.

    It is about the chemical and elemental makeup of the early solar
    system, which informs us about the processes that were most important
    in its formation.

    Asteroids may become an important source of raw materials, but most
    likely not carbonaceous asteroids like this one.

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