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Ishmael


In: Toronto
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Probe to Land on Comet

Anyone betting on the discovery of bacteria or viruses?
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Boreades


In: finity and beyond
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Has the alarm call woken it up yet?

Edit: Yes it has!
Sleeping Beauty wakes up.
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Boreades


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I'll bet one copy of The Megalithic Empire that they will find hydrocarbons and amino acids.
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Tilo Rebar


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Boreades wrote:
I'll bet one copy of The Megalithic Empire that they will find hydrocarbons and amino acids.


I think that's a good bet Boreades, and if I were a betting man I'd put money on them finding water too.
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Chad


In: Ramsbottom
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Tilo Rebar wrote:
...and if I were a betting man I'd put money on them finding water too.


I'm putting a fiver on it being dirty, frozen water.
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Boreades


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'It's a mystery to me how comets work at all,' said Donald Brownlee, principle investigator of NASA's Stardust Mission.

What does The Electric Universe model predict for comets?
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Tilo Rebar


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Chad wrote:
I'm putting a fiver on it being dirty, frozen water.


I think we're on a safe bet Chad, they've even found water on silicate interplanetary dust particles. Have a butchers at this...

Detection of solar wind-produced water in irradiated rims on silicate minerals
"...detect water (liquid or vapor) in vesicles within (SW-produced) space-weathered rims on interplanetary dust particle (IDP) surfaces...."

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/01/16/1320115111.abstract

Wonder how much of this water-laden dust gets blown into our atmosphere by the solar wind? Perhaps this is part of the reason we are living on such a wet world - paradoxically, it could be the sun to blame...

Star Found Shooting Water "Bullets"

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110613-space-science-star-water-bullets-kristensen/
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Ishmael


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"How come we haven't heard much about this comet?"

Said my father, conspiratorially.
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