That is my finger touching a piece of the moon. <shudders>.
It was just a small piece, epoxied to a polycarbonate display where it was protected from being peeled out by vandals. You can't get close enough to put your nose near it, but if you could, I suppose it would have smelled like people's fingers; it seemed to have been polished smooth by thousands of touches.
Also, I was successful in logging off HN all morning and making lives and products better by fixing the restart of this piece of industrial automation. Worn-out over-capacity SSD, apparently. Not quite a retrieval of a moon rock, but now the people putting together Mercedes A-class center consoles will be less frustrated by the heat stake machine that puts them together, and won't have to use the manual heat staker as often. Lunch is almost up - one more look at that picture, then it's back to focusing and working!
https://i.imgur.com/kflKLxw.jpg
That is my finger touching a piece of the moon. <shudders>.
It was just a small piece, epoxied to a polycarbonate display where it was protected from being peeled out by vandals. You can't get close enough to put your nose near it, but if you could, I suppose it would have smelled like people's fingers; it seemed to have been polished smooth by thousands of touches.
Also, I was successful in logging off HN all morning and making lives and products better by fixing the restart of this piece of industrial automation. Worn-out over-capacity SSD, apparently. Not quite a retrieval of a moon rock, but now the people putting together Mercedes A-class center consoles will be less frustrated by the heat stake machine that puts them together, and won't have to use the manual heat staker as often. Lunch is almost up - one more look at that picture, then it's back to focusing and working!