Unexplained gel, AKA Mystery Goo, discovered on Moon

[Superfluous J]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/unexplained-gel-like-substance-unusual-19112236.amp

I'm not saying anything, but I'm just saying.

They say it has an unusual color. They don't say what color but come on we all know it's green.

Edited August 31, 2019 by 5thHorseman

[kerbiloid]

Spoiler

Hypothesis 1:
A protomolecule. It's already here, resistance is futile, let's start joining.

Hypothesis 2:
Do we know where exactly did the Apollos vent out their bioproducts before starting back?

 

Edited August 31, 2019 by kerbiloid

[RealKerbal3x]

The goo seems to be getting very cold now.

[kerbiloid]

Spoiler

The Moon is made of cheese... Really...

 

[Spaceception]

We need to go up there, so we can collect enough science to move up the tech tree.

[Scotius]

Y'know, it would be The Surprise of Millenium if we'd find life on the Moon. I mean, no one seriously considered this happening since early XX century science fiction writers. Mars, Venus, ice giant moons - sure, we were willing to theorise to our hearts desire about hypothetical lifeforms that could evolve in such places. But naked, bone dry, radiation - blasted Moon? Nah.

[Cheif Operations Director]

42 minutes ago, Scotius said:

Y'know, it would be The Surprise of Millenium if we'd find life on the Moon. I mean, no one seriously considered this happening since early XX century science fiction writers. Mars, Venus, ice giant moons - sure, we were willing to theorise to our hearts desire about hypothetical lifeforms that could evolve in such places. But naked, bone dry, radiation - blasted Moon? Nah.

Looks like quarantining the Apollo astronauts was actually not a waste of time and money.
In al honesty I doubt it is life

[kerbiloid]

Spoiler

11 minutes ago, Cheif Operations Director said:

In al honesty I doubt it is life

It was a life without protective helmet.

 

[cubinator]

I hope they poke it with a stick to see if it really is soft.

[Scotius]

9 hours ago, Cheif Operations Director said:

Looks like quarantining the Apollo astronauts was actually not a waste of time and money.
In al honesty I doubt it is life

So do i. But...

Moon's surface is rich in silicon. What are the chances a silicon life evolved early on, when said surface was hot and active?

Alternatively, it might be some sort of exotic mineral refusing to boil off in vacuum, despite it's consistency

[kerbiloid]

28 minutes ago, Scotius said:

Moon's surface is rich in silicon. What are the chances a silicon life evolved early on, when said surface was hot and active?

It's a gel, so silicone.
Even there.

[sevenperforce]

Incompletely-cured melt glass from a meteor impact?

[Nuke]

the tardigrades have been busy.

[Cunjo Carl]

I'll put my money on nanoparticles. They can behave like semisolids even when anhydrous, and there's lots of opportunities to make them on the Moon. Definitely looking forward to hearing more!

[kerbiloid]

6 hours ago, Cunjo Carl said:

I'll put my money on nanoparticles. They can behave like semisolids even when anhydrous, and there's lots of opportunities to make them on the Moon. Definitely looking forward to hearing more!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo

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Let's hope this gel is not really strange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelet#Dangers

Edited September 3, 2019 by kerbiloid

[lajoswinkler]

This is all a product of three things:

- partially silly secrecy of China

- average Americans not knowing what gel is

- American media clickbaiting online

 

Glass, unless exceptionally pure, is a gel. Gel is not necessarily a wobbly thing you eat. It's a solid colloid. Volcanic glass is gel because it contains colloidal particles suspended in glassy matrix.

There's literally nothing weird about this.

[Superfluous J]

14 minutes ago, lajoswinkler said:

There's literally nothing weird about this.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh

No I know that. I just liked how the description was vaguely specific enough that that it could be used to describe Mystery Goo.

[kerbiloid]

Spoiler

31 minutes ago, lajoswinkler said:

what gel is

It's a thing to wash hair.

31 minutes ago, lajoswinkler said:

Glass, unless exceptionally pure, is a gel.

To wash hair with glass???

I can understand to shave with a towel, but this...

 

[RealKerbal3x]

4 hours ago, lajoswinkler said:

This is all a product of three things:

- partially silly secrecy of China

- average Americans not knowing what gel is

- American media clickbaiting online

 

Glass, unless exceptionally pure, is a gel. Gel is not necessarily a wobbly thing you eat. It's a solid colloid. Volcanic glass is gel because it contains colloidal particles suspended in glassy matrix.

There's literally nothing weird about this.

The goo doesn’t jiggle and wobble as the craft flies.

[Lisias]

Unavoidable reference:

Spoiler

They are coming home!