My favourite thing about this story is the various times that this and similar experiments around the world missed capturing the actual drip due to various glit

My favourite thing about this story is the various times that this and similar experiments around the world missed capturing the actual drip due to various glitches and snafus; imagine the howl of anguish of the researcher coming in one morning to find that yes something has finally happened after all these years, only to discover that some doofus had left the lens cap on ....