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I'll save you the read of the overly verbose article: The extinction event asteroid likely kicked up enough stuff from earth with enough energy to make it to t
by drpossum 2y ago
I'll save you the read of the overly verbose article: The extinction event asteroid likely kicked up enough stuff from earth with enough energy to make it to the moon.
- Qem 2y agoSo instead of the BS about DNA preserved in ambar (it doesn't actually work), Jurassic Park should have dinosaur DNA recovered from frozen samples collected from a shaded moon crater?
- realPubkey 2y agoHalf-life of DNS bondings is about 10k years.
- Qem 2y agoEven at cryogenic temperatures? Some lunar pole craters have regions of permanent shadow, with temperatures close to -200C.
- theGnuMe 2y agoYou just saved the franchise.
- southernplaces7 2y agothe BS about DNA preserved in ambar was just storytime BS, Michael Crichton himself repeatedly told people the same thing: that he'd made it up as plausible sounding technobabble. But it was BS because of a hard limit to the longevity of DNA in any fossilized context. Material blasted from the earth maybe including a few animal parts isn't nearly so rigidly improbable, or impossible. We know that massive amounts of ejecta went far into space, and a lot almost certainly slammed into the moon.