All That Was Necessary

 NASA has finally opened their returning from space capsule that contained asteroid stuff. Finally. The OSIRIS-REx return capsule thingy that was giving the NASA kids fits is no longer giving the NASA kids fits. All it took was a bigger hammer and presto ... opened returning space capsule thingy containing asteroid stuff. Now the boys and girls over at NASA can get down to the serious business of analyzing asteroid stuff. Golly that sounds so scientific. In other NASA related news blurbs that generally go unnoticed, NASA can't get back to the moon like NASA had planned. Some nonsense about "budgetary restrictions" and congressional resistance over money issues and the actual nuts and bolts crap that has all got to fit and work together properly, which at present, isn't. Working or playing nice with the NASA braintrust. So instead of a 'back to the future' sort of NASA ideal, well, delays always seem to bring about more delays and the Chinese space efforts are just about ready to hitchhike to the moon and claim the moon as property of the People's Republic of China or if one is a stickler for authenticity, 中华人民共和国. NASA will have to eat some defeatist space crow should the People's Republic of the Chinese get to the moon before NASA and dang if'n NASA won't be about hard to live with then. C'est la vie kids. Now for Saturday machine art and don't forget that this weekend is 'Super Bowl Wild Card Weekend'. Personally I think the NFL is getting way too big for what the footballers should be. That would be athletes and not celebrities. Roger Goodell has really fucked up pro-football.

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NASA spent $498,000.43, and that is dollars, for a "special device" they used to open their jammed and stuck space container thingy. I would have gladly sent them my spare ball peen hammer I keep on hand for those just in case moments. 😏