As a retired mechanical engineer, I find the technological genius that went into sending a spacecraft to an asteroid and returning with a sample just mind-blowing. Being involved in such a successful mission must have been very gratifying.
Double check your data on the size of the sample taken from Bennu. According to NASA they recovered 70.3 grams (2.48 ounces), not 200 milligrams (0.007 ounces).
Minerals linked to water worlds were most likely blasted off those bodies by impacts in the inner solar system over time and were eventually captured by Bennu.
They found Serpentine in the sample! Serpentine is metamorphed Steatite, which is precipitated from mineral rich very hot water under pressure deep underground...that process couldn't occur on a cold, low gee asteroid, so indeed the Serpentine is a piece of another planet or Bennu itself is a piece of another planet, what did they call the hypothetical planet that was where the Asteroid belt is now? It must have been a water world!
If the origin of Bennu is indeed an ancient aquatic world with organic molecules, by far the most likely source is EARTH ITSELF, which has had such an environment for billions of years.
The only collision we know of large enough to generate Bennu came at a time the Earth lacked all that water. Also, if both Venus and Mars once had water, why couldn't it have come from one of them?
1:47 Speaking as a member of the male species, there are better tools than a phillips head screwdriver. Isn't that tool being there sort of like having a cresent wrench on the international space station? It's the worst possible choice and we certianly know better, but there it is. Right in the middle of our space program. Can we all feel properly embarressed and vow to never do this again? Phillips screws are for russian stealth fighters, not American spacecraft.
There are organic molecules throughout the universe. That doesn't mean there was life. "the building blocks of life" is thrown around and people interpret it as meaning there was life. Click-bait
True, it does not mean that there was life. That is the required skepticism of the scientific method, which to date, is the best path we have to discovering the OBJECTIVE truths about our universe. Please keep in mind, however, that flawed reasoning to substantiate an opinion, is still flawed. Incomplete data, or insufficient data, when there are SO MANY unknown factors, does not allow us to dismiss a hypothesis out of hand with such scarcity of evidence. Yes, there are people on both sides of the camp of whether there is life in the universe other than our own. Please don’t let your personal or religious or cultural beliefs affect your objective reasoning about the evidence discovered as it is happening. Look up! And have a great day!
Well now we know are future. We blow our selves apart only for our ashes to roam the solar system waiting to be found by a future civilization somewhere.
I don't believe that we will find life beyond the life created here on earth. But we'll continue to spend billions of tax payer dollars in the pursuit of it. 97 percent of the universe is leaving us now faster than the speed of light. The remaining 3 percent is so huge as to be useless for us. Imagine if we spent that money helping people today.
Osiris-Rex was a great mission to Bennu to acquire these samples. Scientists should obtain lots of data from their experiments on the samples.
As a retired mechanical engineer, I find the technological genius that went into sending a spacecraft to an asteroid and returning with a sample just mind-blowing. Being involved in such a successful mission must have been very gratifying.
Double check your data on the size of the sample taken from Bennu. According to NASA they recovered 70.3 grams (2.48 ounces), not 200 milligrams (0.007 ounces).
Minerals linked to water worlds were most likely blasted off those bodies by impacts in the inner solar system over time and were eventually captured by Bennu.
We are not the only living planet, we just haven't found the other ones yet.
They found Serpentine in the sample! Serpentine is metamorphed Steatite, which is precipitated from mineral rich very hot water under pressure deep underground...that process couldn't occur on a cold, low gee asteroid, so indeed the Serpentine is a piece of another planet or Bennu itself is a piece of another planet, what did they call the hypothetical planet that was where the Asteroid belt is now? It must have been a water world!
Great video. Thank you!
Dr. Carl Sagan is Correct, We are Made of Starstuff.
Yes, but know; he wasn't the first to come up with this idea.
The earth is not unique. The earth is just another example of life in the universe
Surely earthlings are not so egotistical to think that life, any form, only arose on Earth.
Yeah, some are. YECs for instance
Hay, just make sure you keep that sample secured and under controlled sealed rooms who knows what kind of microbes, are in that sample.....
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I was hoping to hear how they returned these samples so quickly.
Wow great, hope you get some more positive results.
“200 milligrams”? “Paper clip”? What are you trying to say?
The estimated total mass of sample returned is 70 grams (70,000 milligrams!).
70 g. is the overflow on top of TAGSAM. I've seen that the total sample is about 250g.
If the origin of Bennu is indeed an ancient aquatic world with organic molecules, by far the most likely source is EARTH ITSELF, which has had such an environment for billions of years.
The only collision we know of large enough to generate Bennu came at a time the Earth lacked all that water. Also, if both Venus and Mars once had water, why couldn't it have come from one of them?
We cant comprehend infinity, what can happen has happened
What will happen has happened...
Sorta the same as what you said, but a slightly different perspective.
It would be funny to find out that the astroid came from the early earth. We're looking at ourselves
1:47 Speaking as a member of the male species, there are better tools than a phillips head screwdriver.
Isn't that tool being there sort of like having a cresent wrench on the international space station? It's the worst possible choice and we certianly know better, but there it is. Right in the middle of our space program. Can we all feel properly embarressed and vow to never do this again? Phillips screws are for russian stealth fighters, not American spacecraft.
And then it may not have been part of a ocean world.
If there was life on an asteroid within the rock it could likely create an atmosphere within the rock caves.
So no breakdown. No analytic info. Only overflow sample displayed and outrageous conclusions based on nothing. Standard operational BS.
Right!!!!
There are organic molecules throughout the universe. That doesn't mean there was life. "the building blocks of life" is thrown around and people interpret it as meaning there was life. Click-bait
True, it does not mean that there was life. That is the required skepticism of the scientific method, which to date, is the best path we have to discovering the OBJECTIVE truths about our universe. Please keep in mind, however, that flawed reasoning to substantiate an opinion, is still flawed. Incomplete data, or insufficient data, when there are SO MANY unknown factors, does not allow us to dismiss a hypothesis out of hand with such scarcity of evidence. Yes, there are people on both sides of the camp of whether there is life in the universe other than our own. Please don’t let your personal or religious or cultural beliefs affect your objective reasoning about the evidence discovered as it is happening. Look up! And have a great day!
Sir does scientist found any bacteria in Bennu
No
Why that rock debries are black?
Well now we know are future. We blow our selves apart only for our ashes to roam the solar system waiting to be found by a future civilization somewhere.
A lot of speculation but not much actual data....
May may may😂
It all seems like speculation to me.
I don't believe that we will find life beyond the life created here on earth. But we'll continue to spend billions of tax payer dollars in the pursuit of it. 97 percent of the universe is leaving us now faster than the speed of light. The remaining 3 percent is so huge as to be useless for us. Imagine if we spent that money helping people today.
Enough with the ‘water’.
It just means , benue been here
Too much padding and weasel words and not enough info regarding what has been found so far.
A water planet orbiting a star that exploded; our Sun and Earth condensed out of what was left
Too many "MAY's"!! No new information... not worth subscribing...
It’s not an “official” NASA site. They just glommed the NASA name.
Looks like coal to me
Damn thing came from earth!
Bennu is just Earth poop.