The remains, were blasted out into space.
They are not available, they are irretrievably gone.
They couldn’t be more lost to the annuals of time than things thrown in a volcano.
I mean it didn’t crash? They are still available.
toasteecup@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And potentially altered by having been unnecessarily put through extremely abnormal treatment, meaning any conclusions you draw from studying them are muddied by having been blasted out into space, regardless of having come back.
Folks have brought up that taking them into space exposes them to high levels of radiation, and the proper steps may not have been taken to protect the remains from said radiation. Folks have argued that because they were in a craft, that they won’t have been exposed to any radiation, but thats not how that works- people who take a flight on a regular airplane are exposed to higher levels of radiation, nevermind spacecraft. Taking the remains into space needlessly reduces their value to scientists who may have learned things from them, and now what they learn may not be meaningful or helpful, because the remains were handled so unusually.
It was entirely unnecessary, nothing was gained by having done it, and it has a cost to science, so the scientists are unhappy- that hardly seems unsurprising.
theKalash@feddit.ch 1 year ago
It was hardly even in space. Sure it was unnessery, but no worse then shipping them somewhere by plane.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If they were shipped somewhere by plane by the scientists, they would have taken the appropriate steps to ensure the preservation of the sample, and the less atmosphere between you and the sun, the more radiation you’ll experience.