How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks

schwit1 submitted a story telling the strange tale of how in 2002, rogue NASA interns stole millions of dollars in moon rocks from a building designed not to let that happen. I'd suggest taking the whole thing with a little bit of salt.

Blech

[Red Flayer]

I particularly like the bit where the interns in question laid the moonrocks down and a mattress and screwed on top of them, thereby making the contamination of the spent samples even worse. Made me wonder who was on the bottom.

Seriously, though, the thing read like a synopsis of a bad TV movie. It may or may not be true, but it's telling that the perp has a book coming out that is an 'augmented' account of the heist, that the author of the linked piece is summarizing what was told him by the perp.

IOW, don't take it with a grain of salt. Kill it with Na fire.

Re:salt not required

[The Grim Reefer2]

I'd suggest taking the whole thing with a little bit of salt.

Isn't that what interns said... Minus the salt part.

Re:This article is hoplessly wrong pulp fiction

[jandrese]

I think they just calculated the replacement cost.

Why would you take the moon rocks with salt?

[DickBreath]

Why would you take the moon rocks with "a little bit of salt"? The salt just adds to what you have to smuggle out of the building.

Re:salt not required... Rocks....

[davidsyes]

"The samples they took were from every Apollo mission, ever. Sometime between the heist and its resolution, Tiffany and Thad arranged the moon rocks on a bed--and had sex amongst them."

Talk about getting your rocks off....

Re:Blech

[flyingsquid]

particularly like the bit where the interns in question laid the moonrocks down and a mattress and screwed on top of them, thereby making the contamination of the spent samples even worse.

In a related story, NASA announced a groundbreaking discovery today, with some startling implications. The good news is, they have discovered that the Moon supports microbial life. The bad news is, it's chlamydia.

Re:This article is hoplessly wrong pulp fiction

[HTH NE1]

I think they just calculated the replacement cost.

So that's why we're going back to the Moon?

Re:This article is hoplessly wrong pulp fiction

[Mursk]

Well, presumably the rooms are at least 78% or so nitrogen filled. Maybe they just rounded up?

Re:This article is hoplessly wrong pulp fiction

[catmistake]

... that one is by an actual reporter with actual fact checking.

but... it makes no sense... just what business would such an individual have at the LA Times?