Clive Thompson on Nostr: Not long ago, NASA was in trouble they'd flown a space probe all the way to the ...
Not long ago, NASA was in trouble
they'd flown a space probe all the way to the asteroid Bennu -- to land on it and gather a sample
the problem?
Bennu's terrain was so rocky they couldn't figure out a safe place to land
to save the mission, they had to call in their secret weapon:
Brian May, guitarist for Queen
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they'd flown a space probe all the way to the asteroid Bennu -- to land on it and gather a sample
the problem?
Bennu's terrain was so rocky they couldn't figure out a safe place to land
to save the mission, they had to call in their secret weapon:
Brian May, guitarist for Queen
Item #3 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-29-methanotropes-sign-language-poetry/