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After a decade and $1.2 billion, NASA reveals its booty from Bennu: 121 grams (arstechnica.com)

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$10M/gram, good stuff

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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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