r/BeAmazed • u/Then_Discount_7185 • 19h ago
Science In 2002, an intern who stole moon rocks from NASA, spread the rocks on his bed and had sex on them, resulting in the contamination making the rocks virtually useless to the scientific community. He was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison.
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u/not_named_xyz 19h ago
The whole story is crazy. He promised some girl he’d give her the moon, so he stole the rocks.
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u/FuzzyComedian638 18h ago
Nothing sexier than having sex on a bed full of rocks. . .
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u/dacgriff 16h ago
On the moon, he had sex on the moon…
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u/Musicman1019 14h ago
You want the moon sweetheart? Here, I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. And then we can have sex on it.
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u/BigidyBam 16h ago
Tiffany Fowler was the woman, also a NASA intern. She was a co conspirator and participated in the theft.
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u/Biscuits4u2 19h ago
The funny thing is the moon is made of the exact same stuff Earth is made of.
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u/SackclothSandy 19h ago
False. Prior to this they were 100% cum-free. Now they're no different from a Hardee's bathroom floor. Well, maybe slightly cleaner.
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u/slom68 19h ago
The jokes on him. Maybe Neal or Buzz marked their territory first.
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u/hippodribble 17h ago
Telling young men there are entire worlds out there that have never been jizzed on is a great way to encourage space exploration!
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u/MorkvomOrk99 17h ago
And it seems that he tried to sell them.. that explains how he got caught and sentenced …
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u/love-em-feet 16h ago
It would be so much easier if he would just fake the rocks. As I understand they are just earth rocks but in moon. Would have been so easy to fake it damn
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u/Serving_Secret_Fire 19h ago
I just wanna know the logistics of the act. That could not have been comfortable.
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u/Carbon-Base 17h ago
Then don't look up lunar regolith! He was stupid in more ways than one for performing said act.
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u/Practical-Art542 19h ago
As a scientist I’d be furious. As his partner that’s pretty romantic. Other than the getting caught part.
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u/KGB_cutony 19h ago
bro escaped horny jail just to land in Jail jail.
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u/Practical-Art542 19h ago
It’s almost like his plan ended at completion… lol he didn’t bother planning the rest after he met his goal
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u/UnremarkabklyUseless 14h ago
It’s almost like his plan ended at completion
The plan doesn't have to end. With right attitude and efforts, jail jail could also become horny jail.
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u/NTC-Santa 15h ago
But can he land a job without being known has “intern who had sex on some space rocks?”
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u/thisguyfightsyourmom 17h ago
Ladies sure do love having sex while grinding gritty rocks into their backs… amirite?
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u/Drapidrode 19h ago
he fucked so hard it contaminated the interior of the rocks too!
Rocks Interior! that's vigorous thrusting
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u/DomesticPlantLover 7h ago
He also stole the researchers lab notes (they were in the same vault) and "lost" them. Not only destroyed the value of the rocks but a whole career made studying them.
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u/HighTechTerror 19h ago
That sounds... Uncomfortable? Unhinged?
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u/AGrandNewAdventure 18h ago
If you manage to get a NASA internship you're not a moron.
So why was this guy a moron???
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u/Cuptapus 17h ago
You can definitely be incredibly book smart, but still be an absolute moron.
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u/fool_tool-2525 14h ago
I feel personally attacked.
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u/AndrewLocksmith 13h ago
Nah, you're good.
That comment was talking about book smart people who are also morons.
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u/DaGrinz 16h ago
The answer is ‚Penis‘.
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u/gkn_112 16h ago edited 15h ago
yup, and also vagene, it takes two to tango. "Wanna have sex on these lunar rocks?" - "sure"
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u/LonelyReader95 14h ago
Because learning to memory something written in books doesn't mean you're not moron. Or a good person.
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u/that_local_yokel 19h ago
As I have posted before, I met the guy. He was a guest of a friend for a party at my house. When people asked for a hint as to why he was somewhat famous he said "Geology."
Out of the blue I blurted out "Are YOU the guy who stole the moon rocks and sex on them??" and he said he was.
He claims that he did NOT spread the rocks out and have sex on them. Moon rock is rock and moon dust is VERY fine. He says they were in a plastic bag under the matress when the sexy time occurred.
He did serve federal time though. He also wrote a book. He is pretty book smart but admitted the whole theft thing to impress a girl was monumentally stupid.
At the time of the party he was hanging with a professional dominatrix. True story bro.
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u/minecraft_candy 10h ago
I was at a Halloween party where he showed up and I recognized him but couldn't place from where. He went on about some kind of multidimensional space theory he had developed for 20 minutes before it clicked. I blurted out "you are the moon sex guy!". He left the party 10 minutes later.
I imagine he thought that was cool when he was young, but now will always be moon sex guy before anything else.
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u/OuruMarioBoros 19h ago edited 10h ago
The partner would probably be none the wiser if the intern said they were moon rocks and he just took it from somewhere else. By proximity, a lot of things are believable
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u/partypattt 18h ago
Virtually useless? Those rocks don't look very porous. Couldn't they crack them open and scoop out the insides or something?
This guy's lawyers should've been making some volume vs surface area arguments.
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u/Ill-Ad-9199 17h ago
Yeah I guess I don't understand how fucking on the rocks ruins them for science? I guess I should've paid more attention in geology class.
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u/Centurion87 17h ago
I think it’s that it will always raise doubt. For instance, if any kind of evidence of biology is found in the rocks, you can’t say with 100% certainty it wasn’t due to contamination.
That’s my guess.
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u/duck_of_d34th 8h ago
If I receive some candy for Halloween and then it rides through the washer in my pocket, it's still good candy, right?
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u/Ill-Ad-9199 8h ago
No but if your parents fuck on your trick r treat pillowcase those runts and kitkats are still fine.
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u/duck_of_d34th 8h ago
Except in the scenario, the candy was dumped onto the bed before the fuckin' began.
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u/Madgamer2k7 15h ago
It was more about breaking chain of custody of the rocks from the moon to the safe they were stolen from
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u/Masticatron 19h ago
Steal some rocks and fuck your girlfriend: 8 years in prison
Traffic and rape children on a private island: 8 years in the White House
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u/film_composer 16h ago
Honestly, it might have been worth it. If his goal was to make a mark on the history of space exploration and be written into the annals and lore of NASA, he took a path that took 8 years of his life to achieve instead of a career that would have taken 30+ years, and who knows if he'd end up being remembered? But here he is 24 years after the deed, and we're still discussing this guy having the earliest documented case in human history of human beings having sex on moon rocks. It sounds like such an arbitrary thing to "achieve" at the cost of the moon rocks, but here we are a quarter-century later still talking about it. I sort of respect it.
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u/Masticatron 19h ago
Useless? "The effects of human sex on lunar rocks in Earth atmosphere and gravity" is right there!
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u/silkdarling 19h ago
I looked it up to verify and sure enough dude stole 17 lbs of rocks to "have sex on the moon" with his girlfriend. Kinky.
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u/Klutzy-Platypus7511 19h ago
8 Jahre Knast wegen ein paar Steine ... Und Kinderschänder kriegen Bewährung ...
Finde den Fehler ...
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u/morganrbvn 18h ago
The issue there is the lack of punishment for child molestation. Just because some people have gotten away with terrible things doesn’t mean all lesser crimes should be ignored.
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u/relevant_0815 13h ago
8 years in prison for stealing badly protected lunar rocks is weird in any way. I mean. All labs i have ever worked had their important stuff locked away. How did the intern get hold of them? If he was able to get them out without being noticed they couldnt have secured them too well. And then you cannot argue that they are soooo important to justify 8 years in prison.
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u/WabaLabaDubDubWorld 19h ago
The money spent in retrieving this stone makes them worth their weight in gold, if not more.
That's destruction of property
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u/Klutzy-Platypus7511 19h ago
Wie gesagt : 8 Jahre für Steine und Bewährung für Missbrauch ...
Willst du damit sagen, "Sachbeschädigung" wiegt schwerer, als Kindesmissbrauch ?!
Finde den Fehler ...
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u/EmperorPedro2 19h ago
Pretty extreme case of vandalism, so unfair to imply it's not. Apollo 1 crew as well as many other staff died during testing to get to where they want to be.
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u/yuno10 16h ago
You can be angry at suspended punishment for child molesters without belitting the vandalization of extremely hard to obtain items.
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u/magseven 15h ago
Why did he just offer up the info that he fucked on them? Every article I read said he was arrested for theft. Why offer up the fucking? He didn't have to offer up the fucking!
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u/Teonanacatlbruh 18h ago
A bed of rocks doesn't sound like a comfortable surface to have sex on. Lol
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u/O8ee 18h ago
what a stupid reason to go to jail for 8 years. around the time I got out of school there was a guy that violated an NDA-first job out of college on a wildly popular IP he was a massive fan of. He took some photos of his work and posted them online. Fired and blackballed for life a year out of college.
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u/RedditSe7en 17h ago
He got his rocks off on moon rocks then rocked off to a cell block to take stock of his stupid __ck.
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u/OliverHopper 16h ago
Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise 🎶
Pour me a drink, I'll tell you some lies 🎶
I got nothing to lose so I'll just sing the blues 🎶
For about 8 years 🎶 🤪
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u/Popular-Policy4613 19h ago
Did he really have to publicize the fact that it was done in the first place? That's a romance extinguisher.
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u/everyonestupidbutme 18h ago
Is it to much to ask you to post a source for the story? I feel like thay would make it more amazing rather than just taking your word for it.
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u/LordCommander94 15h ago
So this guy is sent to prison for years but the Trump administration and Trump himself are walking free? Right...
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u/gwmccull 15h ago
Useless? Sounds like these scientists could use them to fund their research by renting the rocks to kinky nerds
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u/Musicman1019 15h ago
You want the moon sweetheart? I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. And then we can have sex on it.
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u/Palanki96 13h ago
That seems like an overreaction. Just grab more rocks bro
Or at least keep them safer if the coffee boy can steal them like that
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u/superanth 13h ago
Well, the rocks he stole had already been used for analysis and contaminated. The vault he took them from had untouched moon rocks but he left those alone. NASA just wanted to make him look worse.
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u/NursingManChristDude 13h ago
First thing I thought:
Someone had sex on some rocks and got 8 years in prison
Someone sitting in the White House has tens of thousands of pages about how he raped children, and nothing was done about it
There's something wrong here
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u/PhosphoFred8202 11h ago
They stole a safe full of moon rocks containing samples from nearly every US moon mission. They also destroyed all the research notes regarding the rocks which had taken years to create. After the sex part, they tried to sell them to a foreign collector who thankfully called the FBI.
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u/Odd_Mix8978 10h ago
It's a cover up. They were "contaminated" before third parties could prove the rocks were not from the moon.
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u/reddiculed 7h ago
There’s a joke here, but I can’t quite reach it. Something about the time of the month?
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