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How to Find Urban Micrometeorites
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How to Find Urban Micrometeorites

They are the oldest solid matter in existence and have travelled farther than anything else. They form the building blocks of galaxies, planets, and even us. We are all made of stardust. For more than a century, scientists have searched for the mysterious micrometeorites, but they have been found only in extremely clean, remote locations, such as Antarctic blue ice, or, more recently, in space. 

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u/TomaszNowakowski — 3 days ago

What are your thoughts on the Moon landing? Was it real?

If humans really landed on the Moon in 1969 with technology that was far less advanced than what we have today, why haven't we seen regular human missions since? Was it because it was too expensive, too risky, or simply unnecessary?

Or do you think it was Cold War propaganda to beat the USSR? Or maybe they discovered something on the Moon that changed everything. Something they weren't ready to reveal... or perhaps they were warned not to return.

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u/Brilliant_Bill7305 — 2 days ago

Would it be theoretically possible to fly a drone on the moon?

The moon has essentially no atmosphere, but near the surface, there is an exosphere. What would it take for a drone to be able to fly there in the extremely sparse air molecules? If its not physically possible, what laws of physics would have to change in order for it to be?

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u/LittleDukk123 — 3 days ago

Did scientists know being in space was safe before sending someone up there?

Just saw a post asking how digestion works in space, with lots of good answers explaining how the body can still function without gravity helping it.

So my follow up question is whether scientists knew about any of that before sending the first living thing up there. Did anyone even try to figure out if we could survive in no gravity, or did we just observe that an animal could survive for a time, and only later ask why?

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u/Sophont27 — 11 days ago

Is this real or fake?

I got this from a summer fair today, but im worried it might be fake.

u/Calm_Dish_4453 — 9 days ago