NASA spacecraft touches asteroid surface to grab rubble

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/10/20/nasa-spacecraft-touches-asteroid-surface-to-grab-rubble.html

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Bruce Willis was unavailable for comment.

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Amazing science.

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Where’s Sly?

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What is Japan doing with their asteroid samples ?!@@#???

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I’ll have “It Involves Tentacles” for $1000, please, Alex!

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So, Project Scoop?

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Gotta power their mech suit somehow.

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Science! :slightly_smiling_face:

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It won’t be returning the samples, it will be bringing them here. Unless of course visiting an asteroid and pinching some rocks brings back a curse, or something, like with Hawaii or Pompeii. Mind you, it would have to be a pretty big curse to register above the ambient 2020 level of cursedness…

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As anyone who has tried to build the simplest autonomous, reliably-working technical device will understand, this an amazing achievement.

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I wish this could have been the biggest news of the year. It certainly is the most affirming. Go humanity!

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oh i got this reference

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