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There's got to be some sort of remote sensing way to tell what it's made of. Mass spectroscopy maybe? Or X-ray scintillation?
by rwmj 1y ago
There's got to be some sort of remote sensing way to tell what it's made of. Mass spectroscopy maybe? Or X-ray scintillation?
- ginko 1y agoI feel like they could also probably take a miniscule sample (like a cubic mm) without upsetting things. That should be enough to do all kinds of analysis.
- margalabargala 1y agoThe means by which the wine would be removed would introduce contaminants. These contaminants might ruin the wine for whatever purpose they are saving it for.
- TylerE 1y agoKinda feel like you just keep digging at that site until you find the second oldest bottle of wine, and then just open and analyze that one. (Tongue in cheek, but only partially)
- j1elo 1y agoFunny that we can know what's the center of the Sun made of, but who knows what is inside that bottle! :)
- _9ptr 1y agoAre we even sure the sun isn't filled with a "mix of various herbs"?
- adonovan 1y agoEven if you allow "mix" to mean "pressure cook under 250 billion atmospheres at 15 million Kelvin", herbs contains too much carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus to make a G-class star that tastes like our sun. So, yes.
- jibal 1y agoUnlike a bottle of wine, the sun is an electromagnetic energy source. Without accessing the wine its chemical composition is unknown. Consider medical diagnostics like MRIs and CT scans ... they detect density and shape, but for a biopsy you need tissue.
- OhioMan2943 1y agoGod this is peak HN