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submitted 8 months ago by m3t00@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

$10M/gram, good stuff

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[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago

Yes, as we all know "how much it weighs" is the most important consideration of something's value.

[-] Seraph@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago

We could revise it to be "how much it weighs in space"!

[-] Pizza_Rat@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Agreed. What a dumb article.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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 8 months 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 8 months ago

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

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago

But, as the saying goes, good things come in small packages. And small though the sample may be, it is 20 times greater than the amount of asteroid material previously returned to Earth by a pair of Japanese sample return missions. A little will go a long way as scientists study the organics and other materials in this asteroid dust to divine clues to the origin of life and conditions that existed at the dawn of our Solar System. You don't need handfuls of material to get a meaningful result from an electron microscope.

Moreover, the sample retrieval was double the minimum requirement for the mission, 60 grams. So, OSIRIS-REx can now definitively be labeled as an unqualified success.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 14 points 8 months ago

NASA reveals its booty

Payload on the moon

Uranus

Space scientists are horny little buttfuckers

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Knew I should have gone into astrophysics.

[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 8 months ago
[-] veeesix@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Studied in the ass lab, of course.

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

Very close to a haiku

Payload on the moon

NASA reveals it's booty

Inside Uranus

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

From Nantucket?

[-] robdor@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 8 months ago

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

[-] overzeetop@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Still cheaper than inkjets

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