NASA Overjoyed at Catch From Stardust

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 20, 2006 @11:05AM from the yay-for-dust! dept.

mknewman wrote to mention a New York Times report that the Stardust project has exceeded NASA scientist's expectations. From the article: "While they had expected mostly microscopic samples, the researchers said, a surprising number of the particles were large enough to be seen with the naked eye ... The cargo in the Stardust's sample container, which was opened Tuesday, 'was an ancient cosmic treasure from the very edge of the solar system,' Dr. Brownlee said. Scientists believe that these particles are the pristine remains of the material that formed the planets and other bodies some 4.6 billion years ago."

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Never Before by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-20 11:22 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Have so many been so excited about near invisible amounts of detritus. I've scraped more interesting stuff off of my shoes, today alone.

Rocket scientists are the most pathetic geeks of all.
dumbass by Run4yourlives · 2006-01-20 11:31 · Score: 0, Flamebait

They didn't "blow up" anything.

All they did was fly in behind it.
Re:Sponsoring by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-20 13:00 · Score: -1, Flamebait

The grandparent did not claim otherwise, you fucking fucktard.

And by the way, looking through the mail from the fucking great Bullshit States of America, the NASA-toys will probably have phrases like "en14rg3 ur m4nh00d".

Fucking assholes.