Will the sky fall on our heads one day? Meteorites have a magical attraction, but at the same time they stir up ancient fears. In the Middle Ages they were considered divine signs, but today people fear a natural catastrophe: a meteorite impact that could wipe out our civilization. Do we need to prepare to leave Earth? For now, there is no reason to worry, as planetary defense programs from NASA and ESA have their sights firmly set on potentially dangerous large-caliber missiles from space.
Every day, countless extraterrestrial rock fragments enter the Earth's atmosphere. Because they are often only the size of a grain of dust, they usually burn up unnoticed. But some debris makes it to Earth and hides exciting secrets: it is highly likely that meteorites were involved in the origin of life. It was recently proven that some of them contain organic substances such as water and amino acids. A groundbreaking discovery.
In the new exhibition by the ERES Foundation, the primordial matter of the solar system becomes a "time capsule," a valuable carrier of information for art and science. While researchers hope to use this to draw conclusions about the origin and future of life, artists are reading the extraterrestrial data storage in a multifaceted variety of contemporary positions: works that amaze, utopian-dystopian visions and works full of humor and poetry penetrate the atmosphere of the exhibition rooms, asking questions about chance and probability, about new dimensions. And again and again about the position of us humans in the great cosmic structure. Will we need an interplanetary Noah's Ark?
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