comet sample, whats likely to be seen!!!!

when NASA get the long awaited sample back tommorow, what will
they see under the microscope?, any opinions?

hopefully some sort of bacteria or or maybe a new element!

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bodysnatcher writes
hopefully some sort of bacteria or or maybe a new element!


No new elements. I'm not counting my chickens, but hoping to post
congratulations and sign up for Stardust@home
http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/participation.html tomorrow
morning!
It would be nice to see Sir Fred Hoyle vindicated, but I just don't
think it's going to happen.

Jonathan Silverlight wrote

hoping to post congratulations and sign up for Stardust@home
http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/participation.html tomorrow
morning!

http://planetary.org/news/2006/0115_...and_Sound.html

Interesting to see Stardust@home described as "distributed computing".
It is, though, using organic computers. :-)

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Hil

In message , Hils
writes
Jonathan Silverlight wrote

hoping to post congratulations and sign up for Stardust@home
http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/participation.html tomorrow
morning!

http://planetary.org/news/2006/0115_...and_Sound.html

Interesting to see Stardust@home described as "distributed computing".
It is, though, using organic computers. :-)

I thought it was the piece of doped silicon next to me that was going to
do the work :-)

Jonathan Silverlight wrote:
In message .com,
bodysnatcher writes

hopefully some sort of bacteria or or maybe a new element!

No new elements. I'm not counting my chickens, but hoping to post
congratulations and sign up for Stardust@home
http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/participation.html tomorrow
morning!

The best we might hope for is some unusual and informative isotope
ratios and maybe more complex cyclic organic tarry residues than expected.

It would be nice to see Sir Fred Hoyle vindicated, but I just don't
think it's going to happen.

Nor do I. But there is no susbstitute for doing the experiment. I expect
that any flora or fauna may look distinctly like those of the Utah
desert. Even more so if they fluff the landing...

Regards,
Martin Brown