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Speaker 1: Welcome to thrilling threads, where we don't just track objects

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floating through space, we track the stories they tell.

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Speaker 2: And today the story we're tracking, well, it could fundamentally

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change our understanding of life's origins.

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Speaker 1: It all starts with a really provocative question. What if

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the building blocks of life, you know, the amino acids,

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the sugars, everything that makes DNA and RNA work. What

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if they didn't originate here on a chaotic young Earth.

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Speaker 2: What if instead they were delivered perfectly preserved, packaged and

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protected by an ancient, magnetic and rapidly heating interstellar visitor.

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Speaker 1: That is the cosmic seed hypothesis, sometimes called panspermia, and

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it's what we are diving into today. And this isn't

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just some abstract theory, no, not at all.

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Speaker 2: This is based on observation of a real time event.

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Speaker 1: The star of our show is an object that has

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astronomers well rewriting the textbooks, the fascinating interstellar object known

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as three I.

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Speaker 2: At LISS, we've been pulling together data from a lot

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of recent observational campaigns, and we're drawing heavily on some

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brilliant analysis from people like geophysicist Stefan Burns, who's been

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aggregating data from various celestial missions.

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Speaker 1: So our mission for this discussion is pretty straightforward. We

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want to unpack all the evidence that suggests this object

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might be the most pristine actively seeding agent from another

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star system we have ever ever encountered.

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Speaker 2: It's a huge claim, but the data is well, it's compelling.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So let's start with the basics of this interstellar traveler.

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To really get what's so significant here, you have to

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grasp its immense age, right.

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Speaker 2: The thing is, it't new, not by a long shot.

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Speaker 1: The estimates for the age of three I at list

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they range from a staggering three billion years on the low.

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Speaker 2: End all the way up to eleven billion years. It's

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potentially older than our own son.

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Speaker 1: That age gives it authority, but its travel history is

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resume that gives it mystery.

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Speaker 2: And that's where the guy a DR three catalog comes in.

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It provides the confirmation we need that this is a

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truly pristine artifact. Ronomers calculated its trajectory and confirmed it

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hasn't passed close to any major star.

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Speaker 1: And when you say close, what are we talking about here?

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Speaker 2: We're defining close as within five hundred parsecs, and it

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hasn't done that in at least ten million years.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's just pause on that number, because five hundred

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parsex sounds huge, and it is a parsec is about

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three point twenty six light years, so.

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Speaker 2: We're talking over sixteen hundred light years.

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Speaker 1: So for ten million years minimum, it hasn't been within

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sixteen hundred late years of a major star. What does

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that actually mean for its composition?

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Speaker 2: It means its material is untouched, I mean truly untouched

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by intense stellar processing for an amount of time. That's

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hard to even wrap your head around.

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Speaker 1: All that radiation in solar wind from stars exactly.

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Speaker 2: It bakes, changes and destroys volatile chemicals and complex organic compounds.

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But three I at lists has spent at least ten

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million years shielded in the deep, cold, dark interstellar medium.

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Speaker 1: So it's a perfect time capsule, a.

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Speaker 2: Perfect time capsule of what chemistry looks like out there,

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far far away from any sun.

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Speaker 1: A perfectly preserved relic. And now that relic is here,

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its closest approach to our Sun, the perihelion that was

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on October twenty ninth, and.

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Speaker 2: Its closest approach to Earth is coming up fast December nineteenth.

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Speaker 1: We first spotted this visitor on July first, twenty twenty five.

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But then you know, we confirmed its existence by looking

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back at older sky catalogs. It was already here, we

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just hadn't noticed precisely.

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Speaker 2: And this whole orbital window, this moment right now, is

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a cosmic flash in the pan. The vast majority of

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the interesting stuff the revelations come from tracking how its

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physical state changed when it was pulled from that quiet,

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deep interstellar.

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Speaker 1: Void into the well violent, intense environment near our star.

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Speaker 2: That jump and energy is the mechanism for its current

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chemical awakening.

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Speaker 1: That energy transformation is just it's just staggering, and it's

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absolutely the key to understanding all the weird anomalies astronomers

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started seeing.

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Speaker 2: Think about it. In deep space, three I Atlas was

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basically frozen. It was getting minimal energy.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about radiance around what ten to the seventh

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or ten to the eighth units, just background cosmic rays essentially, right.

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Speaker 2: It was inert passively accumulating this unique surface crust rich

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in volatiles and organics from the interstellar medium, a dark, thick,

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porous layer.

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Speaker 1: But then it crossed into the inner Solar.

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Speaker 2: System, and the contrast is, well, it's night and day.

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Speaker 1: When it hit perihelium, the calculated solar radiance just soared

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to seven hundred and thirty five watts per square meter.

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Speaker 2: That is an enormous, almost instantaneous infusion of energy, a

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huge thermal shock that kicked off chemical and physical processes

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the object hadn't felt in millions of years.

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Speaker 1: It's like taking something out of an extreme deep phrase

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and just slamming it into a convection of it.

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Speaker 2: And we saw the first sign that this was no

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ordinary visitor. It happened sharply at two point five astronomical

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units that's about three hundred and seventy five million kilometers

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from the Sun. What do they see there?

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Speaker 1: It was dramatic, a sudden, sustained surge and brightness by

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two in apparent magnitude.

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Speaker 2: Two magnitude jump. That's a massive deal.

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Speaker 1: It means the object just started reflecting or generating several

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times more light than it was before. This was around

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September fifth through the seventh.

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Speaker 2: And this is the crucial distinction, the thing that separates

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three I at lists from your typical commet. This was

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not a standard cometary outburst, right.

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Speaker 1: We see those all the time. They're transient. They flare up.

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Speaker 2: When a pocket of something volatile like carbon monoxide ice

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gets hit by the sun, and then they die down

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just as fast.

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Speaker 1: But this one didn't die down.

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Speaker 2: No, the brightness increase was complete, it was persistent, and

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it actually accelerated as the object got closer to the sun.

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Speaker 1: It was signaling a permanent, fundamental change in the object's

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physical state.

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Speaker 2: And that change is completely consistent with the onset of

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massive water ice sublimation.

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Speaker 1: Now you might be thinking water ice sublimates far out

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in the Solar system. Why is two point five AU special.

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Speaker 2: This is where the physics gets really cool. Based on

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the pressure and temperature phase diagrams for water, especially when

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it's mixed with dust and organics.

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Speaker 1: Like this, liquid water can exist.

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Speaker 2: Exactly transiently in these highly porous objects at distances like

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two point five AU, where the heating is significant but

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still kind of moderate.

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Speaker 1: So the heat wasn't just turning ice straight into gas.

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It was hitting that sweet spot where brief liquid, maybe

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brainy mixtures could form just under the crust.

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Speaker 2: And those mixtures drove the volatile ices into a gaseous state,

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which then erupted.

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Speaker 1: Outward, causing that enormous permanent brightening.

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Speaker 2: This phenomenon strongly suggests what we call global cryo volcanism,

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a surface wide eruption of this pristine interstellar ice and gas.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but how do we know it was global and

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not just you know, one or two really massive geysers.

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Speaker 2: Two key factors. First, as you said, the sustained nature

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of the brightness increase.

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Speaker 1: If it were localized, the pressure would eventually drop in

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the event would fade away, right right.

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Speaker 2: But the object just kept getting brighter as it got closer,

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suggesting the entire surface, or at least a huge fraction

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of it, was reacting to the heat.

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Speaker 1: And the second factor.

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Speaker 2: It's rotation period. The object has a relatively fast rotation,

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about sixteen hours, which.

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Speaker 1: Is important because if it were a slow rotator, say

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spinning once every few days.

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Speaker 2: Then only one side would face the sun long enough

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to heat up dramatically. You'd get uneven isolated eruptions.

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Speaker 1: But a sixteen hour day is fast enough that the

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solar heating is spread out pretty evenly. It's homogeneous across

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the entire surface.

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Speaker 2: Which supports the idea of a widespread global cryovulcanism event.

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Speaker 1: And this all leads back to that crust it built

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up over millions of years.

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Speaker 2: That ten million year journey in deep space allowed it

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to build an exceptionally thick, unique layer of material, volatiles,

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complex organics, ice that had never been blasted by a star.

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Speaker 1: So once it crossed that two point five au thermal line,

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that pristine interstellar crust just started to rapidly.

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Speaker 2: Volatilize, peeling away, exposing the underlying metal rich core and

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starting the profound chain reaction that makes this object so

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incredibly unique.

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Speaker 1: So, if I'm getting this right, the rapid heating didn't

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just cause a small blowout. It caused a complete structural transformation.

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The entire protective layer got peeled away, revealing and activating

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all the chemistry underneath.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, and that's why we see such dramatic behavior after

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Speaker 1: The craw vaultanism wasn't a one and done event. It

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intensified right up to and through perihelion.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah. The imaging right after its closest approach to

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the Sun showed spectacular activity. We're talking multiple intense jets

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extending at at least fifty thousand kilometers from the nucleus.

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Speaker 1: Fifty thousand kilometers, Just to put that in perspective for you,

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that's larger than the entire diameter of the planet Mercury.

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Speaker 2: From a tiny object maybe only a few kilometers wide.

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Speaker 1: It just confirmed the sheer violence with which this ancient

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material was being ejected into space.

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Speaker 2: But once it passed perihelion and started its journey back out,

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three I Atlas presented us with a magnificent paradox.

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Speaker 1: This is where standard comet physics just completely fails to

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explain what's happening.

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Speaker 2: Right. Normally, the rule is simple. As a comet moves

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away from the Sun, the heating decreases.

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Speaker 1: It runs out of the easy to reach volatiles, and

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it dims its maintail, the anti suntail that's pushed by

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the solar wind. It also starts to fade.

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Speaker 2: And while three ialyis is dimming overall and its main

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anti suntail is fading.

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Speaker 1: The anomaly is this rare, weird sunward facing jet or tail.

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Speaker 2: It's just totally counterintuitive. Yeah, how does material move toward

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the Sun when the solar wind is constantly blasting everything outward?

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Speaker 1: It's a massive physics paradox. Post pahelium gravity should be

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pulling the object back out of the Solar system, and

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radiation pressure should be sweeping everything away from the Sun.

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Speaker 2: So for a jet to be sustained and directed toward

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the Sun, the force pushing that material out has to

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be stronger than the solar wind pressure pushing it back.

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Speaker 1: And here is the truly bizarre twist, the one that

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defied all the initial predictions.

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Speaker 2: Get this. As the rest of the object cools and dims,

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this anomalous sunward facing jet is reportedly getting bigger and brighter.

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Speaker 1: It's behaving completely opposite to what a simple icy body

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Speaker 2: It tells us the material being ejected isn't just inert

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dust and gas. It strongly hints at powerful channeling forces.

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Speaker 1: So what are the explanations.

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Speaker 2: Well, there are two primary ones. One is that the

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material is being ejected at such a high velocity from

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the surface that its own momentum initially overcomes the radiation pressure. Yeah,

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but that's usually a short lived effect.

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Speaker 1: But the more compelling idea, especially given the chemistry we're

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about to get into.

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Speaker 2: Is a strong interaction between the object's own magnetic field

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either induced or inherent, and the Sun's magnetic field exactly.

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Speaker 1: And the key observation supporting the magnetic hypothesis is the

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visual structure of these jets.

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Speaker 2: Recent reports mentioned a wavy filamentary structure within the.

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Speaker 1: Jets, and that structure is a textbook indicator of plasma dynamics.

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Speaker 2: Plasma is essentially ionized gas gas heated so much that

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its electrons are stripped away, making it electrically.

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Speaker 1: Charged, and charged particles interact intensely with magnetic fields.

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Speaker 2: This tells us the three I aut lite isn't just

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a dirty snowball. It is, in a very profound sense,

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electrically and magnetically alive.

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Speaker 1: So if the object has a strong intrinsic magnetic field, which,

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can capture and channel some of that ionized plasma material

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against the solar wind.

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Speaker 2: Creating that stunning, counterintuitive sunword facing structure.

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Speaker 1: So the magnetic field isn't just a shield, it's also

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a director. It's capable of manipulating its own expelled material

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against the dominant forces of the solar system.

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Speaker 2: It's the clearest physical sign that this object is a

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unique magnetic anomaly.

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Speaker 1: And it's the perfect segue into understanding the extraordinary chemistry

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that's happening inside.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's get into the chemistry that makes this visitor

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the ultimate candidate for the interstellar seed hypothesis. Spectrographic measurements

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connect three I atlas not just two objects in our

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solar system, but to the most pristine and rare types

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of material we know of.

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Speaker 1: Compositionally, it shares visual characteristics with certain trans Neptunian objects

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TNOs way out in the.

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Speaker 2: Kuiper Belt, things like Sedna or make. Make. It has

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that distinct dark reddish surface.

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Speaker 1: Color, and we believe that color is the signature of

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its incredibly organic rich crust material that it picked up

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and processed during its long, long journey through the cold,

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carbon rich interstellar medium.

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Speaker 2: But the real affinity, the scientific smoking gun is with

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something extremely rare and precious to cosmochemists. See are carbonatus chondrictes.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that is a technical mouthful. What are cr carbonatus

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chondrites and why should we care that three I at

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list looks like them?

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Speaker 2: They're a type of media rite and they're characterized by

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two main things. One, they're metal rich with high proportions

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of iron and nickel, and two, they're incredibly pristine. Scientists

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believe they actually formed outside the traditional protoplanetary disc of

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our solar.

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Speaker 1: System, which means they avoided the intense stumble heating and

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processing that modified almost every other object we've collected.

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Speaker 2: Exactly. They are untouchable specimens from the very dawn of

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our solar system's formation, and they're absolutely loaded with carbon compounds.

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Speaker 1: So three I at list is essentially a huge active

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version of the most pristine, metal rich, organic laden meteorites

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we have ever found.

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Speaker 2: That sets the stage perfectly for the truly shocking chemical

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observations that came next.

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Speaker 1: It does when astronomers analyze the volatile gas is being

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ejected during that cryovolcanism event, they found signature ratios that

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just they don't exist among our homegrown commets.

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Speaker 2: Specifically, the carbon dioxide to water ratio, the CO two

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to H two zero ratio was found to be approximately

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eight to one eight to one. That's the point where

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you have to stop and rethink everything you thought you

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knew about solar system chemistry to quantify just how anomalous

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this is. That ratio is a staggering four point five

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standard deviations four point five sigma above the values typical

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for commets in our solar system.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's pause right there. For our listener who might

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not be a statistician, what does four point five sigma mean?

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In plain English?

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Speaker 2: It means this object is an extreme outlier. I mean

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fundamentally different. In simple terms, if you took a huge

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sample of thousands of solar system comets, you'd only expect

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to see a variation this large once in tens of

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thousands of samples.

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Speaker 1: So this isn't just a bit different.

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Speaker 2: No, this is fundamentally non solar system chemistry. It suggests

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its formation environment was highly oxidized in just alien to

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the conditions that shaped our local neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: It's an alien chemical signature. It's mathematically improbable that it

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comes from the same population of objects we're used to.

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Speaker 2: Studying precisely, and on top of that, high levels of

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carbon monoxide CO were also detected, with a CO to

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H two oz ratio of about one point sixty five.

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Speaker 1: So this wasn't just simple sublimation. This was a chemical

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engine suddenly being switched on by solar energy and the.

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Speaker 2: Fuel for this engine. As we mentioned earlier is metal

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three iatless has high levels of iron and nickel, specifically

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in elevated nickel to iron ratio.

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Speaker 1: That signature is shared with the rare cr carbonatus, chondrite and.

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Speaker 2: Those metals that fenycore. They aren't just inert structural bits.

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They function as a catalytic substrate.

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Speaker 1: So when they come into contact with that liquid water,

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which we know can exist at two point five AU, they.

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Speaker 2: Drive powerful chemical processes that explain the sudden massive output

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of all these carbon compounds.

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Speaker 1: This is where we have to talk about Fischer Trops reactions.

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This isn't just a theory, it's a known industrial and

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geological pathway. Why is this reaction so crucial for the

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cosmic seed hypothesis?

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Speaker 2: The Fisher Trops process, at its core is a reaction

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where carbon monoxide and hydrogen, often derived from water reacting

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with metal, are converted into liquid hydrocarbons.

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Speaker 1: So here the corrosion of the metal by the liquid

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water provides the necessary catalytic environment to synthesize complex organic

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building blocks exactly.

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Speaker 2: The high CO and CO two abundance aren't just waste products.

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They are the indicators that the reaction is running successfully

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and It provides a direct pathway to produce amino acids, nucleuses,

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the building blocks of RNA and DNA, and various sugars.

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Speaker 1: The object is literally generating the fundamental ingredients for life

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right now as we watch.

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Speaker 2: And we don't even have to rely solely on theoretical

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models from the spectral data of three I Atlas. We

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have a very recent, very tangible conformation of this exact

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process happening.

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Speaker 1: In space, the Osiris REX mission.

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Speaker 2: And the samples returned from the asteroid Binu.

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Speaker 1: Benu is such a great comparison because it really contextualizes

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three I Atlas. Benu is a B type asteroid, which

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is actually considered less organic rich and more processed than

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the suspected D type classification of three I Atlas.

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Speaker 2: And yet the Benu samples, which were just analyzed last

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year contained an absolute treasure trove of complex organic molecules.

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They found glucose nucletides, abundant water, and a truly impressive

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array of amino acids.

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Speaker 1: Thirty three different types in total, including fourteen of the

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twenty essential ones used by life here on Earth.

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Speaker 2: That's the implication that really hits home.

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Speaker 1: If a B type asteroid that's been rattling around and

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getting processed in our own solar system contains that much

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rich organic chemistry.

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Speaker 2: Than a pristine D type interstellar object like three I Atlas,

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which has been wandering for billions of years acting like

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a super concentrated delivery mechanism.

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Speaker 1: Is almost certainly far more enriched in these complex organics

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and volatiles.

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Speaker 2: It reinforces that lego factory analogy. Three iye Atlas has

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had billions of years to stack those blocks. Benu is

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a solar system product. Three I Atlas is an interstellar

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high grade product.

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Speaker 1: And here's the truly fascinating part the cosmic insurance policy.

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The chemical process that creates the organics also creates the

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object's defense.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. The rapid corrosion of the iron and nickel metal

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by the liquid water, the very thing you need to

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drive the fischer Trough reaction, doesn't just produce the carbon.

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Speaker 1: Compounds, It simultaneously produces the mineral magnetite fe.

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Speaker 2: Three four magnetite, the strongest natural magnetic mineral nod.

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Speaker 1: Precisely, this means that as three I Atlass undergoes this

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catalytic awakening near the Sun, consuming its metallic core to

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produce life's building blocks.

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Speaker 2: It is simultaneously generating a powerful protective shell. It is

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actively building its own inherent internal magnetism and strengthening its

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magnetic field.

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Speaker 1: So it's not just chemically manufacturing life's ingredients, it's building

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a self protecting shield around them at the same time.

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Speaker 2: It's an astonishing convergence. It implies that conditions necessary for

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complex chemistry to survive the hazards of space travel are

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perhaps self generating.

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Speaker 1: The connection between organic production and magnetism is why this

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object has been called a self protecting seed, a true

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interstellar spaceship.

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Speaker 2: We know that here on Earth life is utterly dependent

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on our planetary magnetic field. It shields us from harmful

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galactic and solar cosmic.

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Speaker 1: Radiation, and that cosmic radiation is nasty stuff. High energy

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particles cause DNA strand breaks, massive mutations. It makes the

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environment too harsh for complex, self replicating life to thrive

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without a defense mechanism.

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Speaker 2: And the fact that the exact chemical process water reacting

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with the metal which creates the complex organics, also creates

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magnetite a magnetic shield. It's an astonishing example of what

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you might call auto catalytic survival.

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Speaker 1: The synthesis of life's ingredients guarantees its own protection.

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Speaker 2: The mechanism suggests a process that has been naturally selected

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for long term interstellar viability and propagation.

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Speaker 1: We mentioned nanotesla earlier when talking about magnetic fields. Let's

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give that some context. Comets already have an induced magnetic

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field because of the plasma barrier they create right.

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Speaker 2: The ionized gas and dust s. The egect forms a

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sort of defense mechanism. The Rosetta Mission, which studied Commet

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sixty seven P, saw that this induced plasma magnetic barrier

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could have a strength of thirty to fifty nanotesla, and it.

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Speaker 1: Could spike up to three hundred nanotesla during solar storms.

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Speaker 2: Now that might sound small compared to Earth's magnetic field,

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which is around fifty thousand nanotesla at the surface.

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Speaker 1: But in the vacuum of space near a comet, three

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hundre tesla is a significant local barrier. It's capable of

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deflecting a lot of charged particles.

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Speaker 2: Now, add the indogenous production of magnetite that strengthens the

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intrinsic field on the surface and potentially deeper into the core.

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Speaker 1: So you have this dual shielding the induced plasma field

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plus the inherent magnetite field, and.

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Speaker 2: It transforms three I atlas into an interstellar defense platform.

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It's self replicating the necessary ingredients for life while constructing

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the magnetic defense needed to protect any of those compounds

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or even primitive life forms on board during its hazardous

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transit near star.

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Speaker 1: It's the ultimate survival package, and it raises the most

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profound question of this whole thing.

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Speaker 2: At what point does this concentration of building blocks and

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this self protecting environment stop being just chemistry and.

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Speaker 1: Start being primitive, self replicating life.

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Speaker 2: The space environment is, as Stefan Burns described it, a

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lego factory. The elemental blocks forged in exploding stars. They

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just scack up over billions of years during these long,

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cold interstellar journeys. The concentration increases, the complexity.

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Speaker 1: Grows, and we know that the presence of liquid water,

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even those transient briny mixtures, and the catalytic power of

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the iron nickel core can accelerate complex molecular connections into polymers.

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Speaker 2: And the solar energy provides the necessary kickstart, the activation

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energy to drive these reactions.

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Speaker 1: So while the probability might be low. The hypothesis can't

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be dismissed that the.

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Speaker 2: Close approach to the Sun, providing that necessary energy spike,

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could potentially act as a life factory, triggering the final

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critical steps required for the formation of primitive unicellular organisms,

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all protected by their newly formed magnetite shell.

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Speaker 1: It just compels you to wonder whether there's a hard

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chemical limit that prevents those blocks from connecting into something

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that self replicates.

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Speaker 2: Or if the process, given enough time, the right chemistry

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and that self protective magnetic shield inevitably leads to some

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form of primitive life ready to.

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Speaker 1: Be delivered, and whether it's carrying actual life or just

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the perfect most potent ingredients for life. The final tangible

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consequence of this object's visit is what's next.

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Speaker 2: For Earth, because we are directly intersecting its path.

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Speaker 1: Right the object's closest approach to Earth the flyby is

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December nineteenth. That's the near miss.

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Speaker 2: The more critical event for the interstellar seat hypothesis is

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the transit zone we're going to pass through later.

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Speaker 1: Remember those massive jets extending fifty thousand kilometers that were

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violently pumped out when it passed the Sun.

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Speaker 2: Three I Atlas left a vast rich cloud of organic

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and volatile material all along its orbital path.

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Speaker 1: And Earth will orbit through that exact heavily contaminated region

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of space, the perihelium transit zone, where it left all

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that debris during March to April of twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: This is the moment of reckoning for the hypothesis. The

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central question for panspermia is how much of this life

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ingredient rich debris might eventually rain down on Earth.

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Speaker 1: And this material is a compositional match for those cr

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carbonatus chondrits, which we know are highly abundant in amino acids,

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even more so than the recent bit new samples.

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Speaker 2: So if the early Earth was seeded by materials like this,

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which is a major scientific theory for the origin of

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our water and organics, then.

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Speaker 1: This event confirms that this seeding process is still actively

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happening today. It's being facilitated by objects that have crossed

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the vast distances between star systems.

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Speaker 2: We are talking about fresh, high quality, magnetic shielded cosmic

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seeds potentially arriving in our atmosphere very soon. It's not

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just a historical process, it's ongoing.

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Speaker 1: And three I at list proves that the delivery system

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is viable and operational across galactic distances.

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Speaker 2: This whole dive into three iatlists just it reveals that

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our solar system just played host to a unique, self contained,

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chemically reactive life ingredient factory.

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Speaker 1: It really forces us to look at interstellar objects not

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as just random bits of rock, but as potentially highly evolved,

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self protecting carriers of complex chemistry.

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Speaker 2: So to summarize the three most astounding facts we've gathered

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from all the analysis.

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Speaker 1: First, its extreme age and its pristine nature. It's estimated

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at three to eleven billion years old and it hasn't

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been processed by a star in at least ten million years.

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That gives it a chemical makeup that is unique, a

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tree time capsule of interstellar organic chemistry.

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Speaker 2: Second, that thermal transition it triggered global cryo vulcanism at

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two point five AU, a sustained state change that ultimately

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produced that anomalous sunward tail, a major physical paradox that

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indicates complex forces, likely magnetic channeling, are actively at work.

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Speaker 1: And Third, its unique composition. It's similar to those rare

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metal rich cr carbonatous chondrites, and that allows it to

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chemically produce the very building blocks of life sugars, amino

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acids via Fischer trops reactions.

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Speaker 2: While simultaneously creating magnetite, a mineral that strengthens its own

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magnetic shield. It is a self contained, self protecting cosmic seed,

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seemingly designed for long term viability.

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Speaker 1: Three I atlts demonstrates that the conditions and ingredients necessary

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for life aren't fragile. They seem to be abundant, durab,

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and possibly self protecting throughout the entire galaxy.

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Speaker 2: It survived a ten million year journey and a near

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Sun encounter. It's an incredibly robust system.

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Speaker 1: So if our own planet was seated by materials just

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like this, what does the successful arrival of three I atlas,

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a confirmed active seed carrier from another system, what does

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that tell you about the here ubiquity of life's potential

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across the cosmos. We want to know your stand on

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the interstellar seed hypothesis. Did life start out there? And

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is it just waiting for starlight gars to turn on

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the life factory and deliver the goods. We look forward

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to hearing your thoughts