OSIRIS-REx

 NASA launched a mission to an asteroid a while back. That mission is now famously known as 'OSIRIS-REx' and the mission to an asteroid and back to terra firma is one for the books. Those NASA books. So and kind of how the Peter Principle works, NASA can't get the dang space specimen jar open. Nope and they've tried every last tool in those NASA tool boxes. The NASA guys and gals are stumped and SOFL. (SOFL is the official acronym for 'shit out of luck') Keeping with the NASA tried and true method of naming things with ridiculously long names, the NASA kids have named the space specimen jar "Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism" and damn if'n that doesn't just roll off the tongue. Kind of like how scrambled eggs will roll off the tongue while trying to speak when eating breakfast. NASA spent a space shuttle payload bay filled with taxpayer money for this trip to an asteroid and back and now they can't get at the asteroid chunks returned to Earth. By the way, NASA landed that OSIRIS-REx return capsule on Utah's west desert salt flats that reside dang close to where I used to live. Pretty cool that. Anyway, the space kids are scratching their really technically challenged heads at present as to how in hell to get that space specimen capsule to open. I emailed at the NASA kids suggesting they try a hacksaw. I've not received any sort of reply. Hmmm, I wonder why that might be...

Now it's time for Wednesday machine art. Maybe NASA should try a really solid ball peen hammer.

spooky -

spink -

soul to soul -

riverboat -

friends -

memory -

seems to me that NASA should have tried to open their space specimen thingy before it went to space. sort of a dress rehearsal to make certain that they could get at the crap being returned to Earth. I mean ... ya think? 😐