Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
Hayabusa 2 is going to lob 5 lbs of copper slug at a near earth asteroid, scoop some up and bring it back. They're gonna drop a camera to film it. And they aren't even sponsored by Red Bull.
We's gonna have live commentary (in what language I do not know) in about a day and a half.
JAXA be tweetin'.
https://twitter.com/haya2e_jaxa
And their control panel is dope.
francopoli knows more about this stuff by default and he's going to DOUBLE DOWN ON THE ENTHUSIASM
fallingsaucer · 1797 days ago · link ·
Sick and surreal. Imagine when you're gone and your descendants ask what you were like when you alive, and your grandkid tells how you were so bad you shot down an asteroid. What?? That's out of this world crazy.