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

submitted 10 months ago by m3t00 to c/science

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$10M/gram, good stuff

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 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.