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.
  • Brad Boimler@startrek.websiteEnglish
    2010·
    10 months ago

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

      • Maalus@lemmy.world
        33·
        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
          42·
          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.