> Only one was recovered because it hit a house.
You lost me there.
Is recovery possible only if a house is hit??
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#33Did someone pay him for the rare meteorite? At least enough to fix the roof? Who should one contact if this happens?
Everybody knows that. You contact NASA. Then a black helicopter will pick you up, bring you to an airbase and fly you straight to the white house, where you will be introduced to the actual truth, while a team of very excited scientists with biohazard suits praise and examine the artefact. If you're still sceptical, they will take you to a large hidden hangar in the middle of the desert and show you around.
Can’t take any US action movie seriously anymore. Not because of plotlines like this, but because they portray the team at the white house as somewhat capable.
You have to suspend your disbelief harder at the 8 o’clock news nowadays.
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#34> Only one was recovered because it hit a house. You lost me there. Is recovery possible only if a house is hit??
From what I understand about this story, the homeowner had the presence of mind to immediately attempt to preserve the meteorite, which is what made subsequent analysis possible.
Presumably other fragments landing outdoors with no one around taking similar steps to preserve them, even if they were to be recovered, would not be as valuable for study because of their exposure to the natural environment of Earth.
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#35> Researchers found preserved bits from near the surface of the original asteroid where it experienced concentrated salty fluids
Are we sure the guy who picked it up didn't just wash it with some sort of detergent after it cooled off?
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#36> Only one was recovered because it hit a house. You lost me there. Is recovery possible only if a house is hit??
No? It's obvious the meaning is that most meteorites will never be found because they're tiny and no one witnesses where they land. If it hits a house you know where it landed.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everybody knows that. You contact NASA. Then a black helicopter will pick you up, bring you to an airbase and fly you straight to the white house, where you will be introduced to the actual truth, while a team of very excited scientists with biohazard suits praise and examine the artefact. If you're still sceptical, they will take you to a large hidden hangar in the middle of the desert and show you around.
Can’t take any US action movie seriously anymore. Not because of plotlines like this, but because they portray the team at the white house as somewhat capable. You have to suspend your disbelief harder at the 8 o’clock news nowadays.
Watch Don't look up, if you haven't yet, it's brilliant.
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#38Browsing that site, The SETI Institute appears to have expanded beyond its original goal of finding extraterrestrial intelligence into astrobiology and more. Perhaps the first attempts at detecting alien radio signals hoped too much? I have little doubt that, given the infinite size of the universe, that extraterrestrial intelligence (of some sort) exists, the question is whether we will ever detect it... It perhaps…
Detecting radio signals never made much sense to me.
Even a few light years away, it’s almost infeasible to build a radio transmitter that could be detected above the noise floor. The amount of energy you’d need would be absurdly wasteful.
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#39Did someone pay him for the rare meteorite? At least enough to fix the roof? Who should one contact if this happens?
Everybody knows that. You contact NASA. Then a black helicopter will pick you up, bring you to an airbase and fly you straight to the white house, where you will be introduced to the actual truth, while a team of very excited scientists with biohazard suits praise and examine the artefact. If you're still sceptical, they will take you to a large hidden hangar in the middle of the desert and show you around.
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