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A team of researchers from Waseda University, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Harvard University, and the National Institute for Polar Research discovered silica mineral quartz in a primitive meteorite, becoming the first in the world to present direct evidence of silica condensation within the solar protoplanetary disk and coming a step closer to understanding solar formation and evolution.
Though previous infrared spectroscopic observations have suggested the existence of silica in young and newly formed T Tauri stars as well as in asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in their last phase of life, no evidence of gas-solid condensation of silica had actually been found in primitive meteorites from the early stages of our solar system.
In this study, the scientists studied the primitive meteorite Yamato-793261 (Y-793261), a carbonaceous chondrite collected from an ice field near the Yamato Mountains during the 20th Japan Antarctic Research Expedition in 1979.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:19PM (2 children)
See you can take that and run with a Hollywood movie plot of a space based race of sentient silicon computer chip organisms who get into some kind of military issue with (each other or someone else?) and end up nuked and their refined silicon bodies condense out in space into what boils down to molecular silica sand.
Scan the debris for peculiar ratios and elevated levels of common semiconductor dopant materials. "WTF the stuff orbiting the star is indistinguishable from running a bunch of 2N2222 transistors thru a grinder down here on Earth"
Well, we could get an interesting movie out of it, but, naaaaw, we'll get formulaic crying dramas, petite chicks going all Rambo on platoons of dudes, special effects demo reels, remakes, capeshit, remakes of capeshit, remakes of remakes of capeshit, etc. Maybe Bollywood can save us or foreign films.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @02:06PM
Indians already took our all our tech jerbs, now you want hindu chimps to take all our show biz jerbs too?!
(Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Thursday August 23 2018, @02:13PM
Yeah, but - primitives. These aren't the space based races you are looking for. Keep looking for some evolved condensate.