. SCIENCE & TECH . The Dust-Buster Has Landed

Schematic of Stardust

Four days ago, the Stardust probe returned to earth. Why could this be interesting? It's carrying some space dust that was collected from the Comet Wild 2. It will help NASA scientist learn much more about the early solar system and maybe even make it a neater, cleaner, more organized living space. Their next mission will involve the construction of a hugemongous closet organizer, most likely from IKEA, to store and sort the troubled asteroid belt. A person standing next to me at the bus stop commented: "Well, somebody has to clean that mess up!". I know, I know. Who said the news has to be based on reality!

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