SCIENTISTS: “@OSiRISRex intercepted asteroid Bennu, 300-million km away, to retrieve samples for lab analysis.
RESPONSE: “Oooh!”
SCIENTISTS: “Research shows humans are catastrophically warming Earth”
RESPONSE: “That conflicts with what I want to be true, so it must be false.”
SCIENTISTS: “We’ve produced the first-ever image of a supermassive Black Hole, 55-million light years away”
RESPONSE: “Oooh!”
SCIENTISTS: “We’ve concluded that humans are catastrophically warming Earth”
RESPONSE: “That conflicts with what I want to be true, so it must be false”
To the robot who turned 90 days into 15 years of exploration:
You were, and are, the Opportunity of a lifetime.
Rest well, rover. Your mission is complete.
(2004-2019)
https://t.co/POzRmYauHo
#ThanksOppy
Twenty years ago today, construction began on the greatest international science & engineering project in human history - the @Space_Station. We marked the occasion by talking to the crew currently living & working in space. Take a look: https://t.co/NjT9U5TIfD #SpaceStation20th