Late last year, a spacecraft containing samples of a 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid landed safely in the desert after a 1.2-billion mile journey.
    • fossilesqueOPEnglish
      121·
      10 months ago

      Haha, not my title, the article’s. I don’t change them too often because it disrupts my flow going through my RSS feeds while I select things I want to get into in depth myself, and I know publishers make these decisions for a reason. The text is pretty ok though. Feel free to downvote them.

  • nooneescapesthelaw
    6·
    10 months ago

    Why didn’t they just use a socket wrench?

    This is why you don’t send an scientest to do an engineer’s job

  • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
    3131·
    10 months ago

    I could’ve done it in like 10mins. Easy-peasy. Oxy-acetylene torch, fastener can’t be stuck if it’s a liquid.

    • Brad Boimler@startrek.websiteEnglish
      2310·
      10 months ago

      It is being stored and a clean room that is temp controlled any heat or anything would contaminate the sample.

        • Freewheel@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          52·
          10 months ago

          Given that you aren’t the only audience to a response, even someone who recognizes that it’s a joke might add a little bit of context about, I don’t know, how melting the fastener might contaminate the sample or grinding the fasteners might cause dust and sparks that could also contaminate the sample, so on and so forth.

          That all being said, are you okay? Kneejerk responses like that don’t usually come from good places.

        • Maalus@lemmy.world
          53·
          10 months ago

          A sentence needs to be funny to be a joke. Also, not everything needs a joke as a response.

          • essteeyou@lemmy.world
            43·
            10 months ago

            I think it was fairly clearly a joke, and at least a little bit funny via absurdity, like suggesting nuking it to open it, or wrapping an elastic band around like a tight jar lid.

            Not everything you read is serious unless otherwise stated.

        • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I guess my other reply was too honest for the moderator, but they are cool with your rudeness?

          Why are you being so rude?

    • faintwhenfree@lemmus.orgEnglish
      92·
      10 months ago

      Funny, not sure why people can’t understand it’s a joke. But I’ve learned my lesson that I always add /S when I do the sarc joke