David Kipping
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This is just the tip of the iceberg.
So I think there's an exciting future for this field to try and intercept these things.
There's a mission the Europeans are building called the Comet Interceptor.
It's going to launch in 2029.
And that's just going to hang out in deep space waiting for the next one to come.
And they haven't necessarily committed to an interstellar object at this point, but they could do it.
And they could turn on the engines and catch up with that thing, sample it, land on it.
I mean, that would be dope.
That'd be landing on an exoplanet.
That'd be like seeing stuff from another entire star system for the first time.
We've done it with... The Japanese have done it a couple of times, I think, with comets.
Amino acids are all over the place.
They're on these comets.
So amino acids are common.