Stardust spacecraft lands.

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You probably heard this on the news, but anyway here's a link .....

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html .

I'm now going to do my usual "wet blanket" bit! Thought we already knew all about the "original solar system material" from meteors, comets etc.
 

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Yet another set of unknown chemical compounds have breached the safety net of the atmosphere.

Expect weird things to happen in Utah soon.
 

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Channel Hopper said:
Expect weird things to happen in Utah soon.
But how could we tell the difference?
 

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Thats one of them, though the Murchison meteorite seemd to have more credibility.
I believe that pandemic influenza is just the start. Mutation is highly likely given the sudden increase in resident temperature of the collected samples once they are under investigation.

How about the Andromeda Strain?
 

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Yes, the Andromeda strain (book movie t-shirt).

Certainly, there were initially precautions for returning lunar astronauts (much insisted on by Carl Sagan).

Meanwhile, Bird Flu is rather frightening ......
 

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Channel Hopper said:
Yet another set of unknown chemical compounds have breached the safety net of the atmosphere.

LOL, that's exactly what I said to the Mrs when the geeks with the buckets on their heads went rushing up to it while it was still smouldering! :confused
 

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BGonaSTICK said:
LOL, that's exactly what I said to the Mrs when the geeks with the buckets on their heads went rushing up to it while it was still smouldering! :confused

In a deja vu nod to the other thread today, I have a feeling the geeks have it in their heads an idea that whoever gets to touch the black piece of rock first, gains the intelligenct stored in it by other beings
(I think theres a greater certainty of a burnt hand)

But it is Utah afterall
 

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Seth Shostack said:
"I don't think that, given the likely -- and large -- difference in technological level between transmitting extraterrestrials and us, that we would be suitable targets for either malicious infections or attempts to 'beam themselves here,'"
ROFLMAO! :-bash
 

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Wish that there was anything at all like that!

Regarding advanced extraterrestrials, then as Fermi famously said "where is everybody" (ie, if they exist at all, then they should be here and we'd know!).

Cue government conspiracies ....

Then there's the Drake equation, good fun, yeah, try putting different numbers in .....

www.universetoday.com/am/publish/wheres_all_the_life.html?19102005 .

The point about "viruses from space" is - contrary to "Andromeda Strain" - they're unlikely to survive at all in a different biosphere. The stuff we're afraid of mutatles evolves right here on earth at ground level, that's evolution .....
 

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"We will probably find the first grain within the first month," Dr Westphal said.

So don't hold your breath...

"Ultimately, this is the stuff we are made of," said Dr Westphal.

So why not just slap your own gibblets under a microscope and save some cash?
 
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