NASA Can't Find Its Moon Rocks

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Some_weirdGuy

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Wow, not a single arrow to the knee joke. I'm impressed.
Perhaps the skyrim hype is dying down now...


((And yes, this is so dodgy, how could they be losing stuff like this XD... Well i suppose after you get over the novelty factor of 'omg its not from earth', they really are just like normal rocks, so maybe that's why?))
 

Alpha Maeko

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DVS BSTrD said:
Not G. Ivingname said:
We cannot find the priceless moon rocks, nor can we find Kennedy's brain, or the missing 18 minutes of the Watergate tapes, but don't worry, it doesn't mean anything!

<__>

*Hides a box titled "The Truth"*
Is that a conspiracy I smell?
Nah, NASA doesn't have the stones to pull that off.
ZING

Good one, suh.
 

The Great JT

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Makon said:
Cave Johnson bought them all. Put them into a gel, then found out they were pure poison.
Curses, beaten to the punch! Regardless, that's probably where they went.

What can I say? Science needs to be thrown against the wall and we need to see what sticks!
 

Hargrimm

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OH BOY, WE LOST OUR PRECIOUS MOON ROCKS.
LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE TO GO AND GET SOME MORE, IF ONLY WE HAD A BIGGER BUDGET *hint hint*


Ok, I don't really believe that they lost them on purpose, buuut this would be a good opportunity to ask for more funding, we need moon rocks FOR SCIENCE! after all, don't we?(I mean I hope we do)
 

The Rogue Wolf

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I know what they're up to.

"Hey there, Mr. President. Uh, you know all those moon rocks we used to have? Yeah, can't find a darned one now. Looked underneath the couch and everything! It's a real shame. Now you just can't have a museum named after you without a moon rock in it, right? So how's about a few billion dollars for a brand-spanking-new moon mission?"
 

BrownGaijin

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You know, I've heard about geniuses lacking common sense, but this...

 

somonels

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Old news :\ like, months old. But that seems like a good enough reason to go get some more.
 

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Abandon4093 said:
Has no one seen that documentary, Apollo 18?

The moon rocks are dangerous. The ones they have on show are clearly fakes.
Totally planned on making the reference.
Good job ^^
 

mireko

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That movie was terrible. Found footage horror set in the desolate emptiness of the moon? Brilliant! Awful editing, a lame script, bizarre camera work, massive plot holes and a boring monster? Not so brilliant!
 

dubious_wolf

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Can you believe this? I heard about it on NPR about a month and a half ago. How could some people be so careless... sheesh. World leaders.
 

Joshimodo

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Well, at least we didn't lose the big black slab. That's over there in the back.

Let's take a lo...My God, it's full of stars...
 

Zyxzy

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First the tapes of the Moon landing, now this. Oh for Pete's sake NASA.
 

thiosk

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I'm a scientist. Sometimes researchers send me precious, rare, one of a kind molecules and I get to work on them.

They don't get them back.

If I obtained a sample of moon rock from NASA for chemical analysis, once I was done, they would never get remaining sample back, unless specifically requested by formal letter or direct contact with the person who sent them, or unless it was specifically required that I return remaining material after experimentation. The sample would be kept and stored and I tend to track the paperwork of irreplacable materials.

The sad part about this situation is that once the records and paperwork and history (think, chain of evidence) on these rocks are lost, their scientific value is markedly less.

NASA is just an organization of people. Many of them scientists. All of them are friends and collaborators with other scientists. And the material just sorta flows around from person to person, then 40 years later they're all dead or retired and no one remembers anything.

Not surprised. Its not like there was a Rock Czar overseeing with religious fervor who got which samples of what rock. They're just curiosities anyway. No one expected that we'd never go back.