Bennu Sample Successfully Returns To Earth

[Minimalist]

The conclusion of the mission to retrieve a sample from an asteroid has been filmed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-envi...t-66907726

There were celebrations in the Nasa control room as a capsule containing samples from the asteroid Bennu touched down in the Utah desert.

[Dom]

The conclusion of the mission to retrieve a sample from an asteroid has been filmed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-envi...t-66907726

There were celebrations in the Nasa control room as a capsule containing samples from the asteroid Bennu touched down in the Utah desert.

It wasn't an easy thing to do. It may tell us a lot about the origin of life...

[Minimalist]

More than Genesis?

[adey67]

I hope they quarantined the samples, we've had one dodgy virus last thing we need is some fucked up deadly alien pathogen doing the rounds. I'm pretty sure they do do that, I read somewhere the Apollo moon rock samples and the astronauts were quarantined when they returned.

[brewerb]

I hope they quarantined the samples, we've had one dodgy virus last thing we need is some fucked up deadly alien pathogen doing the rounds. I'm pretty sure they do do that, I read somewhere the Apollo moon rock samples and the astronauts were quarantined when they returned.

Not that comforting, a lot of them are dead.

[Dexta]

The conclusion of the mission to retrieve a sample from an asteroid has been filmed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-envi...t-66907726

It wasn't an easy thing to do. It may tell us a lot about the origin of life...

I think abiogenesis in the proximity of hydrothermal vents is already an adequate and highly plausible explanation for the origins of life on earth. The news outlets stating this asteroid sample could well be helpful in clarifying this "mystery" is just a headline grabber IMO - there is no mystery to be solved.

[pattylt]

I think they’re hoping for life signs from beyond earth. If, say early forms of RNA or complex molecules are found, it would indicate that life may be more or less common than we think.

[brewerb]

I think they’re hoping for life signs from beyond earth.  If, say early forms of RNA or complex molecules are found, it would indicate that life may be more or less common than we think.

I'd be happy with finding amino acids, the building blocks for complexity. Finding anything approaching RNA would blow my mind.