OSIRIS-REx mission lands on an asteroid, and then returns to earth with its sample...and people are bitching because they didn't bring back more than they could use anyway? Holy shit, talk about missing the entire point.

[–] thragtacular@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Idiots will always idiot. Like the old stories of $3,000 toilet seats that idiots swore were government waste... despite the fact that said toilet seats were on the fucking Space Shuttle (IIRC).

People with zero sense of scale. That's the real issue.

[–] kernelle@0d.gs 3 points 1 year ago

When the article mentioned it was more than twice the target value I knew this was just a puff piece

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

NASA reveals its booty

Payload on the moon

Uranus

Space scientists are horny little buttfuckers

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very close to a haiku

Payload on the moon

NASA reveals it's booty

Inside Uranus

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

From Nantucket?

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Knew I should have gone into astrophysics.

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Asstrophysics

[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Studied in the ass lab, of course.

[–] robdor@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

I can wait for them to penetrate their hot rod deep into enceladus.

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Still cheaper than inkjets