2d ago

Man Steals $21M of Lunar Rocks from NASA to Use During Sex After Promising His Girlfriend the Moon

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NASA intern stole $21M of lunar samples in order to have ‘sex on the moon’

cross-posted from: https://endlesstalk.org/post/93152950

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this happened in 2002, if someone wondered
- I was genuinely worried it happened again.
- Yeah 23 years ago and we get a present tense headline.
Imagine stealing $21M in Lunar rocks, and not realising moon rock dust makes ideal portal gun surfaces.
I swear I remember reading about this before...
edit: God fucking dammit I'm old:
More than 23 years ago, NASA intern Thad Roberts hatched a daring plan to steal 17 pounds of m
that had to hurt.
moon rocks be made of razors yo.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/breathing-moon-dust-regolith-toxic-cancer
Hopefully they didn't breathe during.
- Cave Johnson here. It turns out that moon dust isn't in fact cocaine. I am now terribly ill.
NASA was just upset that their moon rocks were getting more action than their scientists.
Goddamn, now that is a headline!
My inner J Jonah Jameson is impressed, hire that man immediately!
He already works for us?
Perfect!
Never let him know what we pay anybody else!
- Weird way to spell "Cave Johnson."
  
  I mean, I'm not super familiar with how he's characterized in the comics, but he is characterized this way in the... I guess now the 'older' Spider Man movies.
Lunatic? :)
That... Is from like 30 years ago or something? I was a kid when I read about this
After his arrest, Roberts admitted to also stealing dinosaur bones and fossils from the Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City.
Checks out.
- why would you steal dinosaur bones from salt lake when they're just laying in the ground a few hundred miles east
I mean, you can just buy lunar meteorites and not have to risk the jail term, if you're that into the idea of "having sex on the moon". Hell, you can buy Martian meteorites, or outer space meteorites for that matter. The small slices aren't even all that expensive.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/12/lifestyle/nasa-intern-stole-21m-of-lunar-to-use-during-sex-to-have-sex-on-the-moon/
Your link is showing a 404 error. This seems to be the current link.
Strange for a 23 year old story....
- Nypost is not a credible source. Please don't link to it
  
  Meh, it's a human interest story that's decades old.
working yahoo
On the flip side, this creates evidence for Panspermia.
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- Probably because this happened at least 20 years ago...
  I mean, I guess it could have just happened again, but after the first time they stepped up security
  
  So with inflation, it would be $500 million worth of moon rocks today?
Respect.
Oh yeah, I watched a documentary about that.
- What doc? I need to watch it!
  
  I think it's called The Great Moon Rock Heist. I know it was from NatGeo.

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