Harold Connolly Jr.

But that was a good thing.

Excellent.

Because it taught us that gravity itself is basically what's holding the asteroid together.

Tensile forces between particles is not really doing it very well.

Hey, Neil, see, I learned some physics over the last 20 years.

And the other thing is we're penetrating deeper into the surface.

So the surface of the asteroid is being caught a lot, depending on how much the surface is moving based on the rotation and landslides and impacts.

So we're getting down to the stuff that might be fresher.

quote, pressure.

Correct.

Absolutely correct.

Wow.

The problem was, and you did ask another question there when I get to that, the problem was that when we pulled back up, you know, and did the first test to see what kind of sample we got, we literally moved that three meter arm backwards to a camera to take pictures.

And I can remember about four o'clock in the morning waking up and downloading from our mainframe the images and started looking at it.

It had all these little spots all over the place.

I'm thinking,

What the heck are these spots?

Long story short, as the world knows, several stones got caught keeping the flap open.

And we were losing sample every time we articulated the arm.

Wow.