Imagine walking around with a thorn in your foot for over a century.
Jimmy Roseman decided to go scuba diving one afternoon and ended his experience of under-water revelry having to kill a Great White Shark with a harpoon gun to save himself from the worst afternoon ever.
NASA wants to put somebody on an asteroid by 2025 because they don’t know how else to get people’s attention. And to succeed in this entirely worthwhile endeavour, they’ve designed a mechanism by which to harpoon asteroids, so that vehicles can land on the thing despite the weakened gravity. Call me Ishmael.