Re:How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year
by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday November 06, 2020 @08:05PM
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I would have assumed all of the material in the solar system didn't come from our sun?
Other than what's been blown off the sun as solar wind.
I mean, Earth didn't originate from material from the stella explosion of Sol.
Re:How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year
by KineticLensman on Saturday November 07, 2020 @05:08AM
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All of the material in the Solar System - sun and planets - formed from the same original cloud of atoms. This cloud itself included atoms generated by earlier generations of stars. The different elemental composition of the Sun and planets was partly driven by the physics of processes operating as the system matured.
Re:How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year
by prox on Saturday November 07, 2020 @03:22AM
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The sun is a second generation star, that is it formed out of earlier stars who did make those heavier elements.
Re:How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year
by 867-5309 on Friday November 06, 2020 @09:35PM
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indeed, and humans are a material part of Earth
Re:How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year
by whatshisface on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:06PM
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Panspermia is an idea, that's a fact. Our sun makes helium. It doesn't even make helium that we use - we get our helium from underground deposits filled by radioactive decay.
Re:How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year
by 867-5309 on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:22PM
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unsure what your point is
Re:How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year
by dwohnitmok on Friday November 06, 2020 @10:52PM
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I think parent's point is that, to an extremely accurate approximation, none of the elements on Earth come from the Sun. Hence, while it's true that trace elements didn't come from the Sun, it's weird to focus on that because nothing else did either.
EDIT: And it's also weird to tie this to the fact that the Sun won't produce elements heavier than iron through normal (i.e. non-nova) fusion late in its life since that has nothing to do with it.
Re:How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year
by saagarjha on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:28PM
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Panspermia isn't widely accepted, but stellar nucleosynthesis/supernovae are generally accepted to be the source of the heavy elements.
Re:How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year
by LargoLasskhyfv on Saturday November 07, 2020 @04:48AM
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We are stardust, risen like a phoenix from the ashes of giant suns exploded eons ago...
another interesting idea is that our Sun is not hot enough to produce any elements heavier than iron, meaning that trace elements in you and I are of extra-solar system origin