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I guess they are scientists and know better than me, but my bet is that is will just contain sludge. Egg shells are more organic than you expect. This is why you use stuff like waterglass https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_silicate to seal them.
> Egg shells are more organic than you expect. I expect them to be completely organic. What else would they be?
I think they should not pierce it, but instead leave it for future humans to study.
The eggshell looks like a century egg, but as mentioned by the comment the contents may have decomposed if the mud wasn't alkaline like the century egg production process.
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> Egg shells are more organic than you expect. I expect them to be completely organic. What else would they be?
namespace collision: to the layperson, it's organic because it came from an organism. from a chemical perspective, it's considered non-organic i admit i read ops comment and was confused for a second until it clicked. they're mostly calcium carbonate
I think they should not pierce it, but instead leave it for future humans to study.
I think they should not pierce it, but instead leave it for future humans to study.
Science funding requires doing something. Nobody funds you to not do something. Regardless of getting funding, I don't see why our level of technology is not adequate to study an egg.
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Science funding requires doing something. Nobody funds you to not do something. Regardless of getting funding, I don't see why our level of technology is not adequate to study an egg.
It might be the only 1700 year old egg in the world. Surely the prudent thing to do is wait some fraction of its age (200 years?) and reevaluate. What are the chances that, out of all of history, now is the best time to open it?