OP you need to work on your emotions and stop the clickbaity titles.
Haha, not my title, the article's. I don't change them too often because it disrupts my flow going through my RSS feeds while I select things I want to get into in depth myself, and I know publishers make these decisions for a reason. The text is pretty ok though. Feel free to downvote them.
Why didn't they just use a socket wrench?
This is why you don't send an scientest to do an engineer's job
Pics of the sample in this article
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-osiris-rex-curation-team-reveals-remaining-asteroid-sample/
I could've done it in like 10mins. Easy-peasy. Oxy-acetylene torch, fastener can't be stuck if it's a liquid.
It is being stored and a clean room that is temp controlled any heat or anything would contaminate the sample.
Funny, not sure why people can't understand it's a joke. But I've learned my lesson that I always add /S when I do the sarc joke
Yeah, lot of people with zero chill