No! Obviously cats and babies are in the interstellar spacePolyMath wrote:
Are cats & babies allowed in the clean room?
"I found a cute, funny, interesting, etc. movie"
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not enough deep focus...
could be an impact crater, there seems to be more in-depth, but focus is too shallow.
Re: not enough deep focus...
If it is an impact crater because of dust, why it isn't not so deep like the examples?tim_yoda wrote:could be an impact crater, there seems to be more in-depth, but focus is too shallow.
The crater seems very superficial.
Sorry for my english!
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icebike
That is my ulterior motive for posting this thread. To see if anyone is intersted in exploring that possibility.PolyMath wrote:
Im also interested to see the answer about the micron scale calibration, seems like when there is a calibration movie it soooo obvious, the tracks seem huge. Then I find myself trying to determine on real movies if a tiny spec might be dust or not.
I don't want to be an alarmist, but unless people more knowledgable than me come forward with rational explanations of what this item is we must pay heed to Occam's Razor, and are thereby left with the most straightforward explanation: that it is a hair, probably human.
But that opens a whole can of worms about the scale factor.
As of this point in time, its the elephant in the room that nobody wants to notice.
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Link outside of stardust:
http://carnicom.com/micro2b.htm
This is a bunch of photos of various fibers. The measurements may or may not be accurate but the images of the fibers/hairs are good for comparison against things you may find in the movies.
http://carnicom.com/micro2b.htm
This is a bunch of photos of various fibers. The measurements may or may not be accurate but the images of the fibers/hairs are good for comparison against things you may find in the movies.
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icebike
Oh, don't worry, I'm quite calm. I raise this issue and solicited speculation precisely to avoid the appearance of being alarmed about it. Its a curiosity.WeBeGood wrote:
Calm down. To me, it looks like a metal sliver that would come off a lathe or mill. It probably fell off the new microscope they have.
Metal sliver might well be a possibility, The lathe millings from metal that I have seen are pretty jagged, but I have never seen one at this microscopic scale, so who knows. It could be a metal sliver dislodged when the door of the spacecraft opened or closed.
It could also be a perfectly normal item to be found in space, perhaps caused my impact-melting and ejection of tiny particles impacting on the spacecraft body, or a trick being played on us by the camera team, for all I know.
We were warned to expect the unexpected.
The fiber just looks like a random fiber to me. Even if they dressed in latex suits before handling the aerogel (or using equipment to handle aerogel? I admit it, I have no idea what the procedures are to keep it clean) something would probably land on the suits and then fall off into the aerogel. I can easily spot fibers hanging off the end of my cotton shirt's sleeve which are obviously much thinner than a human hair. 
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icebike
Hair-like fiber
A pretty good job finding and stitching together adjacent focus movies!
There are many kinds of fibers smaller than and more common than human hairs. All that lint that is constantly flying off clothing, getting on indoor surfaces and plugging up the lint trap in the dryer, the result of the slow erosion of your clothing. Nylon, polyester, you name it.
There are many kinds of fibers smaller than and more common than human hairs. All that lint that is constantly flying off clothing, getting on indoor surfaces and plugging up the lint trap in the dryer, the result of the slow erosion of your clothing. Nylon, polyester, you name it.
Re: Weird space creepy-crawly
Oh, wow! That one is ugly!Martino wrote:Meanwhile, this one gave me a start... !
http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ... =4527461V1
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Re: Weird space creepy-crawly
What if the only thing we ever find in these things are new species of... things? flying around in the air?Nikita wrote:Oh, wow! That one is ugly!Martino wrote:Meanwhile, this one gave me a start... !
http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ... =4527461V1
Edit: Two layers?? Usually, you can sort of see what the dirt is sitting on top of, or the hole that it's sitting inside of. This one confuses me, though. It looks like there's two layers. Maybe even another layer above the top one.
http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ... =1677601V1