Scientists Uncover Ancient Salt Deposits on Asteroid Ryugu – Was There Water?

Scitech Daily ^ | February 19, 2025 | Kyoto University

[Larry Lucido]

Carbonate? Wasn’t that used to freeze Han Solo? They should look for a body in there.

[C210N]

Under that salt, could be a long-dead vast evil city. Due to all the corruption and fornications, long since turned to salt.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Carbonite. Like the backup service. Named for the substance you referenced. Or...was it sarcasm?

[Tom Tetroxide]

What if the asteroid belt is an exploded planet that had oceans with salt in it?

[Larry Lucido]

Yes!

And no wonder I can’t freeze any of my enemies. I bought the wrong thing!

[Red Badger]

Every atom of every molecule on Earth and the Sun and all the planets and asteroids came from somewhere else. All the metals found on Earth and elsewhere were created inside a star’s furnace. When that star went nova or supernova, as the case may be, all that material was flung out into space to eventually coalesce into our Sun and its planetary retinue, to continue the cycle once again................

[Tom Tetroxide]

When did our Sun go nova and spit out a bunch of rocks? I’ve never heard about this.

[Red Badger]

No our Sun, but some other star billions of years ago.

We are literally made of stardust..................

[Larry Lucido]

We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

[Red Badger]

Joni Mitchell got it right.....................

[Red Badger]

But she did get the Timeline off by a little bit, should be at least 5 billion year old carbon................

[Tom Tetroxide]

[Bob434]

Why yes of course, and tiny little,microbes from which all life miraculously defied impossible odds agaisnt it, usurped natural law, and did supernatural things in order to become the billions of species we have today and in the past.

[Larry Lucido]

Hard to tell. Some of that carbon doesn’t have a clearly marked production or expiration date.

[null and void]

...creating an environment of hot water below 100°C

Why 100°C?

Was the water at one sea level atmosphere of pressure?

Remarkable!

[null and void]

Under that salt, could be a long-dead vast evil city. Due to all the corruption and fornications, long since turned to salt.

Note the scale of the SEM image is 10 µm, about ¹⁄₁₀th the diameter of a single hair.

Pretty small evil city.

How many demons can dance on the head of a pin?

[BitWielder1]

There are a lot of icy comets out there.
This could be a core of one, or a comet passed close once.

[Red Badger]

It’s amazing how a simple little algae cell in a pool of water can take a carbon dioxide molecule and split it in two, retaining the carbon and freeing up an Oxygen molecule for us to breathe, all using just a few photons of light and some water.

But for a human to be able to do it requires a laboratory full of equipment....

[null and void]

What if the asteroid belt is an exploded planet that had oceans with salt in it?

More likely that two roughly Mars sized planets collided, something similar happened here, giving us the Moon.

But let's suppose it did explode. How?

According to the current model of planetary formation when a pile o' rocks gets big enough mutual gravity squishes them down, the pressure and radioactive decay of some of the elements melts them together.

Heavier elements gravitate to the center.

Uranium is heavy.

Could it be possible that enough uranium ends up in close proximity to do the 'splody thing?