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That’s deliberate - NASA goes out of its way to use ordinary consumer goods when possible. You can imagine how much money you could spend on a special room for
by erulabs 3y ago
That’s deliberate - NASA goes out of its way to use ordinary consumer goods when possible.
You can imagine how much money you could spend on a special room for billion dollar rocks! Surely 150M is nothing!
The actual problem statement: “we need a safe room for some rocks” only requires a couple plastic bins and some tape.
I’m always so pleased by how hacky NASA stuff looks!
- exmadscientist 3y agoBrings back memories for me. I used to work on particle physics experiments. The "science groupies" would be amazed at what happens behind the scenes. There were a couple of deliberately broken vacuum cleaner parts that happened to play a surprisingly important role in certain neutrino parameter measurements....
- yetihehe 3y agoI would definitely like to hear more. It's very HN worthy story.