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Hey, ALL jobs are important in one way or another. You should be happy your contribution - no matter how small - eventually culminated in this picture being taken 🤘

That's supercool! Do you have some intresting fact/anecdote to share?

It'd be pretty hard, no air, little gravity, and the whole thing is more like a dust pile loosely held together than a rock

Sad but true but also deserved if they fall for that.

As far as we know, anyway, and we know very little. I don't think we can say that most of the universe is lifeless with any confidence at this point.

But that photo of Ryugu? Not so much as a phage or virus, let alone a living thing.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. There's organisms that can survive in space for a very long time, and the probe & lander probably brought some there. Desinfecting space crafts never kills 100% of the microbial life. Also, Ryugu is an asteroid, not a comet - typically formed by collisions of larger bodies. And where there is rock, there was once heat - and if there was water, too, microbes MAY have formed. It's unlikely that any organism hibernates for millions of years, but not impossible: https://nerdist.com/article/830-million-year-old-microorganisms-could-still-be-alive/

And that’s most of the universe.

On this, you are very likely wrong. Unless you count stars & empty space. Chances are that most planets with geological activity have the potential for primitive life forms, and hopefully, the jupiter icy moons explorer and followup missions will give us an idea about extraterrestrial life even within our own solar system.

You just blew my mind, thank you!

We're made of supernova material. I think that's cooler anyway.

Wow this could actually make actual sense

Depends on how close they are to the camera. As the horizon, a human would be just a little shorter than the top of the frame. Standing directly in front of the camera, youd see up to just below their knees.

Edit: on second thought, at the horizon you could fit 2 people in frame on top of each other.

"Organic" in this case just means it contains carbon atoms. That's the difference between organic and inorganic chemistry IIRC.