Asteroid Ryugu is infected with life!

[@fnunez]

I suspect the only way we're going to be able to rule out contamination is to do all these tests in space.

[@SpaceMog]

@@fnunez 🫠

[@KylewithaK]

Even then, getting our equipment/materials off the Earth uncontaminated may be almost impossible

[@sectsan2471]

❤

[@morgan696manning]

if this is real just shows how scary a time, we live in so take everything with a grain of salt kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnK4p3eilrmphJo

[@morgan696manning]

since the 1800s wow

[@BenjaminGoose]

0:41 "It was found by a team of meteorite hunters that was thought to have originated from Mars" A team of meteorite hunters from Mars would be much more fascinating.

[@SpaceMog]

@@BenjaminGoose 🤣

[@BabyEater]

The formations found are too small to have been caused by any known life, but also, could have been caused by known earth life. 🤔

[@shunpillay]

I find it equally amazing that even under such sterile conditions, “life finds a way”.

[@junkequation]

Ever hear of the gray goo doomsday scenario? It's an idea that microscopic robots could be invented, go out of control replicating themselves, and destroy the planet. I don't find it convincing, because life is already this exact concept of gray goo. It evolves to replicate itself as quickly and prolifically as possible using any resource available. If it were possible for microscopic entities to become efficient enough to deconstruct the planet, it would have happened billions of years ago.

[@BabyMakR]

"Life, ah, finds a way" Fixed it for you. 😄

[@SpaceMog]

Its harder to not find life out there - so of course there are aliens!

[@akashsinha2880]

Venom left the sample and now is walking amongst us😂😂

[@JNel77]

@@BabyMakR😂came down here to do the same

[@mshonle]

Life… finds a way… to contaminate your polishing cloths

[@SpaceMog]

but the polishing pads didnt seems to look like the life on the asteroid!

[@BZAKether]

I remember the ALH meteorite. I was a kid back then and certainly everyone thought it was the proof of Martian life. It really seemed like a game-changer. Since then, the idea that perhaps an asteroid might have a surprise keeps on.

[@SpaceMog]

I remember learning about it in my undergrad and was shocked!

[@blobrana8515]

They had one job . . .

[@SpaceMog]

@@blobrana8515 🤣

[@davidtindell950]

The discovery of organic copounds and water were certainly exciting !😊

[@SpaceMog]

interesting for sure, hopefully they will do some more analysis to check its really from earth

[@longtabsigo]

Love the science! I’m completely smitten by science news, thank you and keep it coming!

[@EpicMathTime]

At first I was going to suggest a new mic, but then I realized that it makes you sound like you're actually communicating from orbit so it works.

[@MrGaborseres]

Thanks!

[@SpaceMog]

And thankyou so much for this 🥰

[@edwardroche2480]

When meteors hit the Earth sometimes they hit straight on and hard, sometimes they might just graze the edge of the Earth knocking off pieces of the earth and continuing back into space. Sometime chunks of Earth are knocked into space with the asteroid and they establishing orbit around the Earth our Sun or the universe. These asteroids and pieces of earth will return from time to time, falling to Earth. When we may discover a piece of Earth's crust I did indeed have prehistoric organisms that have been traveling about space

[@SpaceMog]

@@edwardroche2480 very good point

[@edwardroche2480]

@SpaceMog the Earth has been around a couple billion years anyway and just about anything that could have happened probably has

[@g.s.6255]

I liked your spaceship at the background 👽🖖😘

[@SpaceMog]

@@g.s.6255 thanks, its a pretty old thing but it gets me from a to b 🙃

[@paulalexandredumasseauvan2357]

SO INTERESTING! ☺ thank you for another fascinating report 👍

[@SpaceMog]

@@paulalexandredumasseauvan2357 thank you!

[@TheThinkersBible]

This is fascinating. Thank you for your honesty in sharing both the discoveries and the limitations and ultimately failures of the conjectures themselves. Not all scientists are that straightforward and honest and it's genuinely refreshing to see candor and frankness on this topic. Yes it would have huge impact to find such life but it's even more important to be honest when it's not found. I personally do not believe it will ever be found. If someday it turns out I'm wrong, then so be it. But in the meantime, thanks again.

[@alangknowles]

So we sent a not-quite-sterile probe to the asteroid. If there was no life before, there certainly is now.

[@SpaceMog]

Probably 😂🙈

[@simonebernacchia5724]

@@SpaceMog So if there was no panspermia before, now there is - ours

[@tomtomdishman4029]

Dr Maggie, Who sings the Beautiful song on your ending credits? i love it! Thanks for your awesome Science! - Tom

[@SpaceMog]

I made it on udio :-)

[@tomtomdishman4029]

@@SpaceMog Thank you!

[@therealquade]

at first I thought "oh, sounds like contamination on the satellite that collected it" followed by "oh.... rock found on earth has evidence of life from earth."

[@SpaceMog]

Ryugu was extracted on the asteroid and still had life!

[@therealquade]

@@SpaceMog yes, but the asteroid existed on earth for how long? long enough to be changed on geologic time.

[@stewart2449]

Good to see Coventry bridging the gap between football fields and Wales as a unit of measurement.

[@virginie_fabrice]

that's too bad ! i really believed we finally found it out !! good video as always !!🐾

[@ByteMeCompletely]

Scientists say they see the building blocks for life on Mars. I see the building blocks for buildings on Mars, i.e., rocks. But I don't see any buildings on Mars.

[@SpaceMog]

They're there - if you fund my extremely large telescope, Ill send you proof

[@lottothegamer722]

So if we “contaminate” asteroids in space and leave behind cellular life on other planets/the moon, and somehow they stay alive, this could potentially lead to something similar to how life began on Earth, happening ? Theoretically if the cellular life survived, it could reproduce and possibly evolve further?

[@SpaceMog]

@@lottothegamer722 yep thats the premise of panspermia!

[@lottothegamer722]

@ fascinating! Thank you :)

[@Xanrax]

I think I'm going to binge watch this channel

[@SpaceMog]

🙃 thank you!

[@chaosopher23]

We can grow stuff on asteroid stuff. I think we need to bring back a bit bigger a load than a few grams. If we can grow regular crops on asteroid stuff, we won't need to bring dirt into space for, say, a generational starship. Harvest enough carbonaceous asteroid stuff, and go.

[@undertow2142]

Technically you can grow plants in air with aeroponics. We already know we can grow plants with asteroid stuff. They will still need fertilizer just the same.

[@coreymay918]

Cool video, keep up the good work

[@SpaceMog]

@@coreymay918 thank you!

[@husk79]

Cool video as always!! thank you for the info!

[@SpaceMog]

@@husk79 thanks for watching

[@geo7660]

In 2400 BC Pangea was blown apart, chunks of Earth were blown into space, interesting to see that the life is still there.

[@gryph01]

Pangea broke up long before 2400 BCE

[@theunlearnedmind7374]

For a deeper question, is the football a sphere or prolate spheroid? 🤔

[@deeliciousplum]

Before pressing play and with an unbridled enthusiasm, I experienced a: Yahoo! A new Space Mog upload! And, with an equal level of enthusiasm, this following experience emerged: Life is abundant on an asteroid? Awesome! Well, the latter experience of an unbridled enthusiasm was slayed after pressing play. I need to be far more patient with these experiences of unbridled enthusiams! Facts take a few moments to sprout up from the rich soil of knowledge.😊

[@SpaceMog]

Aww thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@spiralsun1]

Have they tried tea tree oil? I hear that’s good for infection. 🤔

[@SpaceMog]

Ill pass it on 😂

[@NobodyOfNote-qv5wh]

Thanks for your video from NZ! ❤

[@SpaceMog]

Welcome!

[@MrGaborseres]

🤔👍👋Thank you again 🙂 for a fascinating video looking forward to your next one 🏵️ 🥀

[@SpaceMog]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@annexcelestial]

Thank you dr Maggie!!! I always enjoy your videos

[@JasonRule-1]

​@@SpaceMogWhy did you lie in your title and cover image? I hate clickbait!! 👎

[@SpaceMog]

@@annexcelestial thanks for watchin

[@SpaceMog]

@@JasonRule-1 wheres the lie? 🙃

[@GirlWithNoName-d4s]

Bet all my lost socks are in that asteroid too.

[@SpaceMog]

Is that where they went? Mine are missing too!

[@garyfilmer382]

Great video, Space Mog, quite amusing, really. It will be good when we have a space laboratory where such research can be done, surely the chances of any earthly contamination there could be engineered to be close to zero? NB. I mean, a space laboratory in orbit, or actually on the surface of the moon, or a planet.

[@Robert-i3q3t]

Obviously the samples are contaminated.

[@SpaceMog]

🤣

[@Kneedragon1962]

Thank you. Outstanding explanation.

[@SpaceMog]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@BioAlpha5]

Ryugu? RENA gonna end hinamizawa one way or another lmao jokes aside great video, been looking into this stuff for kingdom hearts zelda and final fantasy videos. Been binging bunch of star talk among other space channels.

[@SpaceMog]

@@BioAlpha5 🤣 thanks for watching

[@sulljoh1]

Hayabusa 2 was so cool It was like a mini fleet carrier with a small army of landers and probes and anti-tank weapons in case it needed to blow up the Death Star 😛

[@SpaceMog]

sample return missions always fascinate me :-)

[@rgutbrod]

To quote a famous movie "Life finds a way". Think of the cleanness of the lab, yet that didn't prevent earth life from finding the new material and to exploit it.

[@williamburroughs9686]

How did the sample become contaminated?

[@somerandomvertebrate9262]

In my memory, 1996 will always stand out as the breakthrough year for a natural science that is never able to achieve any results or settle on anything.

[@johnscanlon8467]

I hope they kept kept samples and did DNA extraction and sequencing anyway. Might be important.

[@SpaceMog]

@@johnscanlon8467 absolutely 😊

[@EdwardHinton-qs4ry]

@@johnscanlon8467 Yeah, it's Bob from analytics.

[@tapejara1507]

Have they tried dipping it in acetone and then burning it?

[@SpaceMog]

Ill suggest that

[@ThorbjrnPrytz]

Reg. nitrogen: "it doesn't react well with other substances" That sounds ominous and explosive, for an inert gas...

[@joecater894]

considering life got started pretty quickly ... around 300 million years after earth cooled.. if it is panspermia.. then, we should be able to find more of it just by looking at rocks in space. But we're so restricted in how many space missions we can do.. I guess it really would have to be very abundant.

[@lechugh]

Every respectable scientist says the same thing regarding this, the samples were contaminated in the lab during processing.

[@katestramenos929]

I’m glad I watched all the way before I commented because my first thought was “what are the chances of contamination?”

[@mikescholz6429]

Plot twist… all the researchers are actively shedding spike protein

[@MiRodr]

Lower gravity less need of machinery ?

[@tamfang]

Soon after the Martian Meteorite Life story came out, I happened to put up in my cubicle a poster-map of Mars. One person asked, “Are you of Martian descent?” (Couldn't tell whether joking)

[@mozzyquodo5532]

Or is the life on earth that this is being compared to, maybe from the same origin?

[@d.t.bigley7254]

It's the same, because it's contamination. It's extremely hard to keep something clear from contamination. Bacteria is everywhere on Earth.

[@mozzyquodo5532]

@@d.t.bigley7254 That's my point, maybe it's not confined to earth. Our planet receives so many tons of material on a daily basis, if some of the life we know about came from that, how would we know? It may have a common origin.

[@SpaceMog]

interesting idea!

[@MirlitronOne]

It's called "contamination".

[@SpaceMog]

its also called infection - by earthlings!

[@joestrat2723]

Holy Andromeda Strain Batman! Seriously, I hope sufficient care is being taken to quarantine any wigglers we bring back to Earth. Only one needs to escape.

[@SpaceMog]

its probably too late!

[@Oldschool811]

If life is seeded by asteroids than this is to be expected😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@SpaceMog]

@@Oldschool811 absolutely

[@oldbag3043]

Who is to say that we are unique and we are the start of life in the entirety that we can see and beyond

[@TanyaLairdCivil]

And this is why we shouldn't send people to the surface of Mars, period. We know of bacteria in the deep crust of Earth that could happily live deep beneath the Martian surface. We have a hard enough time sterilizing robots, let alone a crewed lander. Mars should be explored entirely robotically until the presence of indigenous life has been thoroughly ruled out, even if that effort takes centuries. And our robotics is only getting better. I imagine the best way to explore the Martian surface would be to have humans in orbit remotely piloting humanoid robots on the Martian surface. We're already nearing this ability with haptic suits and remote robot controls. And it will only get better from here. We're not that far off from being able to experience being on Mars without actually having a human set foot on the surface.

[@SpaceMog]

Absolutely, and it would save so much money in the long term

[@hawkdsl]

Both of you are boring.

[@SpaceMog]

@hawkdsl how can we entertain you?

[@Hfil66]

How sure can we be that the various robots we have already sent to Mars have not already contaminated the Martian surface?

Yeah right, we should save microbial life on Mars and keep it like it's a zoo forever while we cower in orbit like freaks. NO. Of course we cant do that, but we do need to work out whether things can come back safely or not! If Mars microbial life exists, then it's tough if our earth life out competes it in the near vacuum. But effort should be made to check whether it is actually on Mars first or not.

[@dhm7815]

Yes, but Omuamua is a derelict spaceship with a few automatic systems still running. (I want it to be true.)

[@SpaceMog]

@@dhm7815 i like to think so toi

[@coradesune7537]

I'm curious, what would be expected if this has been a meteorite found on mars that had originated on earth?

[@eldraque4556]

nice one, cool video

[@SpaceMog]

Thanks for the visit

[@jgr7487]

If Ryugu was contaminated after all that care, we may be able to say that Mars has already been contaminated by all the robots that were sent there. Good to know.

[@babyoda1973]

We need to start seeding space before it's to late😮

[@pazsion]

life loves to be frozen apparantly

[@pazsion]

most of our solar system would be contaminated, but separate species, adapting at different periods of time and circumstances... unless the last time they were alive was on an earth like planet. all 3 of which are close enough to share nano stuff being evaporated off each planet. so, the asteroid that ended dinosaurs, should produce contamination of insects soils viruses bacteria as bit of things were blasted into space?! ditto venus mercury mars. and earth and our moons

[@Badger69-96]

Beautiful, intelligent, and from the UK 🌹❤️💯

[@paulsteadman5618]

If this is true why isn’t it on all the news channels worldwide !???

[@SpaceMog]

because its not alien life (at least they dont think it is) more likely earth contamination

[@MaxwellMoore-d1u]

Asking the question is Far more important than an Answer, because knowledge and Technology always advances..So I'd never make a definitive Statement.

[@FrankReddick]

More contamination. This is a humbling lesson to us as to how good we can "clean". Not very good, are we?

[@anautonomousagent]

Yes we can rule the fossils out as contamination have you see the work of Dr. Hoover. They do it all the time with Nitrogen (N) elemental analysis!

[@SpaceMog]

Yup, a recent study also said they can form similar structures with liquid water :-)

[@jakobfromthefence]

The probe flew through the atmosphere with the lid open

[@quimicoz]

Poor Ryugu! I wonder if there is any way to save it...

[@rommelfcc]

Oh it's ok no aliens, just Dave sneezed on the sample 😆😂😆

[@larryphelps6607]

don't panic, but so is Earth.

[@SpaceMog]

@@larryphelps6607 Earth is long gone 😅

[@TheSoundsage]

If it is intelligent life, we could certainly use some.

[@mickmccrohon]

Ford Prefect will be back to Earth 2.0 soon

[@SpaceMog]

what do you mean?

[@LarryHoth]

@@SpaceMog Ah, Douglas Adams, the HITCHIKERS GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE book and 2 movies. Earth was destroyed to make way for the intergalactic superhighway. A new earth had to be made. And the answer was 42 from the great computer.

[@mickmccrohon]

@@SpaceMog read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

[@CaptainForest1]

Why is it so hard to find beauty with brains? Space mog Your brain is a 10

[@EdwardHinton-qs4ry]

Be quiet. She's not going to be your gf. It's embarrassing.

[@SpaceMog]

Thanks 🙃

[@keiththorpe9571]

Yeah, you're gonna find far more than just one football in the city of Coventry... Coventry is highly contaminated with footballs.

[@mindbenderx1174]

Life should never be refereed to as an infection, that sad.

[@treestandsafety3996]

That's no simple sterile rock....it's a body part. See Mudfossil University.

[@mickd1368]

funny, start playing at 5:28 and listen. organic matter is c-m based compounds that are the building blocks of life....... yup, you got that right.

[@scottbegley1719]

If we find any alien microbiology , we know there's life out there. Because we exist, it can be assumed sentient life must exist beyond.

[@hankseda]

The same kind of contamination can occur on Europa and other places in the solar system and beyond, wherever humans will have gone before 🤔😮

[@SpaceMog]

sad but true

[@hankseda]

@SpaceMog I guess the question before us now is if we destroy any existing life that we don't yet know by the contamination. If our cosmic neighborhood is as barren as it seems then maybe we don't have a problem. Hard to tell with the limited means at our disposal.

[@OurAmazingSkies]

Until humans can create life themselves it would be sensible to just keep wondering why they can't even create a single cell...it's beyond their reach, for a reason...

[@SpaceMog]

Its hard, because life developed over millions of years but the average life of a postdoc is 3 years - if you gave us a million years of funding, maybe I could do that for you :-)

[@zohraharzi]

Panspermia ?..?..? ❤❤❤

[@SpaceMog]

@@zohraharzi yeahhhh

[@JohnnyWednesday]

I hope it's evidence for panspermia! wouldn't it be cool if Earth life started so early because it came from Mars or Venus?! (edit when finished video : awwwww)

[@SpaceMog]

🥰

[@LarryHoth]

@@JohnnyWednesday or from the asteroid belt that maybe was a planet before it was blown up by atomic bombs, or aliens, or hit by massive asteroid/comet/meteor.

[@adamc1966]

You are my favorite life form 😊

[@SpaceMog]

Thank you 🥰

[@hannahpumpkins4359]

Could we ever get meteorites on earth that originated from Venus?

[@jortor2932]

And I'm by you

[@SpaceMog]

😊

[@grahamturner1290]

So, we can never have anything nice...

[@mabonbran8913]

So panspermia is gaining ground...

[@iraniansuperhacker4382]

its been gaining ground for 30 years its just ideology has kept science in the west from advancing. For at least 30 years the Russians have been doing experiments in fragments one of the carbonaceous chondrites that fell not that long ago. They cracked it open and found "organized elements" that literally look indistinguishable from ancient extinct species of archaea. To the point where biologists would look at them say they are clearly and unequivocally without a doubt life until they get told its from a recent meteorite and they switch up their tone really fast. They have all the ancient breakdown products you would expect to find if there used to be life there. When a nasa astrobiologist named Dr. Richard B hoover took samples from the "fossils" themselves they contained carbon isotopes that were indicative of life, they found the ancient breakdown products of chlorophyll and all the samples they took should have contained high levels of nitrogen because "debunkers" said it was just contaminated earth life but the catch was that he found that nitrogen ratios were wildly off to the point where it has to be at least older then the formation of earth itself due to the decay rates of certain nitrogen isotopes. This type of science can not be done within the sphere of the American goverment, the discovery of life in space or on mars would be extremely bad for the U.S goverment so they are doing everything they can to make sure panspermia or any type of life on meteorites or mars is treated as silly as possible. Any state funding from the American goverment usually gets cut off really fast when they do any type of research into these types of things.

[@SpaceMog]

Its always been popular 😊

[@LarryHoth]

@@mabonbran8913 It was always an option. Hard at this time to classify all the different fauna and flora from the same remedial bio active evolved molecules that were the ancient ‘beginning of life on earth’ forerunners of ancient RNA and DNA (RNA probably came first, simpler molecule than double stranded DNA). Eukaryote cells with mitochondria can be mapped by similarity to other species by its mRNA (mitochondrial ribonucleic acid). Example: Human mRNA has nearly the same sequence as the whale (both mammals and air breathers) rather than to the sequence to monkeys, chimps and apes. Interesting, yes?

[@mabonbran8913]

Hi Larry, so it's true what the revered H2G2 reminisced over. The Great Green Arkleseizure sneezed, and life was born throughout the galaxy, and the modern cosmological phenomena know as the great attractor actually is the coming of the great white handkerchief...

[@LarryHoth]

@ 😂Thanks, I needed that!

[@skyefarnam7857]

Is it possible that the microbes sprouted on earth once exposed to an acceptable biosphere?

[@x7heDeviLx]

So above … So below. Just like there are extremophiles here on earth. I have to assume it’s the same way in space and things could exist and survive maybe even thrive in weird conditions that may not be conducive to normal life. Such as space.

[@tiagodelfino5389]

Ganhou mais um escrito.

[@SpaceMog]

😊

[@AndersWelander]

I think evolution of life is about chemical and biological evolution of an entire Eco system. You can't just inject some microbes.

[@SpaceMog]

i think so too :-)

[@GenghisVern]

Why do they say it comes from Mars? It's just an absurd hypothesis.

[@bato2699]

Its from the saturn system that earth belongd to.

[@SpaceMog]

ahh right

[@bato2699]

@SpaceMog i heard that the water on earth is the same as in the Saturn system

[@seanhewitt603]

Aa,Aa,a... cHOO! OOPS,UH, hey guys, I've found life!...

[@RampAgentX]

aliens, sort of...

[@SpaceMog]

Maybe

[@More-Space-In-Ear]

Has anything been found in Lava on earth?

[@utley]

How the hell do they know it came from mars??

[@JZsBFF]

4:46 That's a bit of a crooked analogy, isn't it? 10K particles in a CUBIC foot compared to a football... and a 1D line? As for being 10K clean, well, it's pretty average.

[@SpaceMog]

😅 sorry, 1 football in a room the size of 17k m in length

[@JZsBFF]

@@SpaceMog No sorry required. I understand; your American public is still in body parts, archaic farming tools and stuff for measuring where Europe has... evolved into abstract thinking. Vive Napoléon!

[@JZsBFF]

Reread your comment. Missed the joke. How high and wide is that rec room?

[@kenibnanak5554]

Zombie Plague, it (the asteroid) carries Zombie Plague. Run away.

[@SpaceMog]

😳

[@mr.fredricklawngtawnghedav5094]

I think we're being lied to. I think that the dirt in the probe was replaced by earth dirt for some reason

[@SpaceMog]

😂 who stole the goods!?!

[@mr.fredricklawngtawnghedav5094]

@@SpaceMog why the military industrial complex of course. To make biological weapons of course, and to hide the findings from other enemy government s

[@mr.fredricklawngtawnghedav5094]

@@SpaceMog the industrial military complex

[@mr.fredricklawngtawnghedav5094]

@SpaceMog you believe things that are obviously, scientifically illogical. If the probe is full of earth bacteria, then it's only logical that the dirt would have to be getting consumed by the organisms. Scientists use sugar and meat juice to cultivate microorganisms in a lab

[@mr.fredricklawngtawnghedav5094]

@SpaceMog their story doesn't make scientific sense.