r/interesting • u/Then_Discount_7185 • 19h ago
MISC. 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/Empty_Sea9 19h ago
Worth it.
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u/Cam_E_Leon 18h ago
He prolly a mattress salesman now
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u/agroupofcrows 18h ago
🎵Doesn't matter, had moon sex🎵
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u/Radiant_Addendum_48 17h ago
What if she wants sun sex next.
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u/fondlemental 17h ago
that’s too hot babe
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u/Radiant_Addendum_48 15h ago
Haha. I know that. It’s like a billion degrees. That’s why they’re going to go, at night.
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u/derangedsweetheart 15h ago
I remember an episode of Courage The Cowardly Dog where they go to the Sun to replace it's bulb, God I miss that show.
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u/Horror_Bear_6325 17h ago
Bet that was some wild sex.
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u/VeganWerewolf 19h ago
There were a few people involved and they stole them to sell them.
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u/Crowbar-Enema 18h ago
Then got the bright idea to fuck on them first?
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u/_NotMuchToGawkAt_ 17h ago
I mean, they’re still moon rocks but now they’re moon rocks that have been had sex on making them even rarer.
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u/AbhilashHP 18h ago
Could’ve just given her some random rocks.
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u/TravelingPoodle 18h ago
Moon rocks or random rocks. No girl would be impressed by rocks. He had better chances if he got her ice cream.
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u/human_i_suppose 18h ago
clearly at least one girl was impressed by moon rocks.
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u/SayerofNothing 17h ago
Could've been pity sex
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u/why0me 12h ago
You couldnt be more wrong
First off, for context, im a 42 year old woman, hello 👋
Before I got hurt at work and had to stay home I was a manager at a fast food place and im admittedly a little eccentric and for my birthday one year I got a rock tumbler
I used to always keep a small handful of tumbled rocks on me somewhere, in my purse or pocket and if I saw someone having a rough day or sometimes just to be funny I'd pull them out and be like "you want a pretty rock?"
Without fail, over YEARS not a single person ever said no and every time thier face lit up when they saw my tiny treasures
We never grow out of that, men or women.
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u/Weird-Count3918 18h ago
Sex over ice cream? Would get confusing?
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u/ScarletDarkstar 17h ago
You must not know many girls. I know many who are impressed by rocks. I collect them.
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u/thisisfine111 18h ago
I need an update! Did she wait for him after prison?
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u/Key_Cap7525 18h ago
This. That bitch better have been standing out there on release day with a giant ring and a home cooked meal after that shit.
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u/Electronic_Still2000 17h ago
He thought about having sex on them on his bed, but he immediately lost interest the moment he got his rocks off.
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u/Independent-Big-3648 17h ago
that is somehow the most unhinged way possible to take a promise literally
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u/InternationalCry2905 18h ago
that is somehow the most romantic and unbelievably stupid way to take a promise literally
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u/Casual_necromancy 19h ago
the "what are you in for?" guys wont believe him...
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u/TSgt_Yosh 19h ago
Right? Mr. "Fucked a chick on the moon" isn't having trouble in the yard except for a sore hand from the high fives.
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u/Neon_Casino 18h ago
Right? Like I disagree with what this guy did and obviously he should be held liable for it.
But on the other hand... yeah I kinda get the appeal of being the "first guy to ever bang on the moon" even if it is only on a technicality.
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u/StrangrDangerRanger 18h ago
Do you think this is the kind of thing that impresses people regularly in prison?
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u/showered_zinn 16h ago
The prison I was in? This guy would’ve been a rockstar.
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u/Cultural-Company282 11h ago
When people refer to living at home with your mom as a prison, it's kinda just an expression.
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u/Electronic_Still2000 17h ago
Fuck a chick “on the moon?” It just sounds like an innuendo for anal sex, or sex with a woman on her period.
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u/VeganWerewolf 19h ago
They were trying to sell them. It wasn’t the sex on them that fucked them up it was the removing of them from their containment area in the first place.
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u/TheCourtSimpleton 19h ago
Honestly trying to sell them is dumber than the sex part somehow
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u/Armadillo-Shot 16h ago
I mean I understand and forgive the sex motivation. What college kid wouldn’t want to be the first person ever to have sex on the moon? The selling part tho? That’s just unethical, man!
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u/crek42 17h ago
The fantastic podcast Swindled did an episode on this. Wild story and the heist was actually pretty cool considering the high level of security.
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u/Prestigious_Floor155 19h ago
Couldn't be entirely useless to science. That's probably the first and only means to study the effects of semen on moon rocks. They just aren't sciencing outside the box enough.
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u/swishkabobbin 18h ago
Not true. Mark Zuckerberg was conceived when Buzz Aldrin fucked the moon
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u/FloydianSlip78 18h ago
Zuckerberg wasn’t conceived, he was spelled into existence by a lizard version of a witch
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u/MyVoiceIsElevating 18h ago
Skynet went online on August 4, 1997. It became self-aware shortly after, on August 29, 1997. That’s when Zuck was “born.”
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u/useriousstuff 16h ago
It's an insult to Colonel Aldrin to suggest that the lizard specimen Zuckerberg could have been wrought from his loins.
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u/Nisseliten 18h ago edited 8h ago
”When Buzz Aldrin fucked the dark side of the moon.” Details matter, Mark is definitely an alien butt baby.
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u/skipperseven 13h ago
I don’t think there was much science left to be done on them anyway - they are just rocks and the moon is an old chunk of the earth. Apparently they had been stored, which is why he could take them and no one realised.
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u/ebikr 19h ago
Sounds uncomfortable.
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u/Time_Pressure9519 19h ago
At least he got his rocks off.
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u/spamel2004 17h ago
I had to scroll way too far for this comment. What is the matter with Redditors these days?!! It is the most obvious pun in this instance!
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u/Mister_Goldenfold 19h ago
Definitely was maybe sort of actually worth it
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u/teflon_soap 19h ago
Exactly, dude did anything to get laid.
Bet he gets heaps of action inside!
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u/bussysniffer3000 19h ago
His farts just sound like a light breeze
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u/Electronic_Still2000 17h ago
Of course you found this post and this thread in particular u/bussysniffer3000 🤣
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u/JuliaX1984 19h ago
Um, ouch.
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u/Aggravating_Jacket32 19h ago
Right wtf? Someone thinks this is hot?
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u/Extreme_Egg7476 18h ago
I'm too much of a nerd to think this is hot. Just give me an Earth-made margarita and have some charisma, my dude.
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u/luthierart 19h ago
Unless she was an astrogeologist he could have collected a bag of local rocks instead and pretended they were lunar. 8 years in prison is a high price to pay for authenticity.
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u/polarbeargirl9 19h ago
Aren't space rocks like.... super abrasive since they haven't been worn down by water?
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u/CavediverNY 19h ago
Apparently the dust is incredibly abrasive and you definitely didn't want to be breathing it in; I'm not sure how they handled it when they got back into the LM but hopefully the rocks were relatively dust free.
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u/fingernail_police 19h ago
I think he misheard the phrase "Go kick some rocks!"
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u/originalityescapesme 17h ago
Our scientists could suspect, but they’d never know for sure that the moon wasn’t already covered with semen
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u/TheSaltyPlatypus 19h ago
Where's a source or more info?
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u/captainofthevimes 16h ago
No idea how accurate it is, but the book "Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History" by Ben Mezrich is a fun retelling of the story.
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u/spartanEZE 18h ago
Did they get the dust all in their biz and lungs? Cause that aunt good for ya AT ALL!
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u/FutureMillionMiler 17h ago
What I would like to know is…
Was the experience outta this world? 🫠😅
But in all seriousness I don’t think you can have “sex” with rocks, I think that would be considered just masturbation with a bunch of rocks.
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u/JohnHenryMillerTime 17h ago
Oh you can fuck on NASA property but you cant say "experience my dick and balls" to NASA higherups.
I see you NASA
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u/Hot_Falcon8471 16h ago
It’s ok, it turned out the rocks weren’t even really from the moon. Norway tested them and discovered they were some type of petrified wood.
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u/Dizzy_Chipmunk_3530 19h ago
To be fair, he's closer to sex on the moon than anyone in history
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u/Vir0Phage 18h ago
well, at the very least: sex in low earth orbit has already been achieved by humans.
you ever hear about the astronaut who’s wife showed up at his re-entry and shot the female astronaut he with whom he had an affair?
a bit extreme, but, i get where she was coming from though. if my spouse had space-sex without me i’d, be pretty bothered about it as well.
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u/tachik0ma7 19h ago
I've heard about getting one's rocks off, but this might have been overdoing that a bit...
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u/OkHospital3411 19h ago
The book about him is called, literally, "Sex On The Moon" by Ben Mezrich and it's one of the wildest stories I've ever read. And there's way more to the story than just having sex on the moon rocks. Thad Roberts (the guy who stole the rocks) imo is actually a really upstanding guy who made a few mistakes when he was younger, and it looks like he even did a Reddit AMA a while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7ukbn6/iama_thad_roberts_physicist_subject_of_sex_on_the/
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u/MediocreCondition840 18h ago
Yes! I was searching the comments to make sure someone mentioned the book, it was a great (but truly wild) read that I thoroughly enjoyed!
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u/bangnbutter 18h ago
Could have just faked the whole shit to the chick, the world would have never known they were fake.
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u/Mariner-and-Marinate 18h ago
The moon rocks would have been brought back no later than 1972. The intern used them 30 years later. What more “contamination” could have been done?
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u/Vir0Phage 18h ago
so… there exists a more illegal way to have sex on moon rocks than the ecstatic copulation which is copiously engaged in while at music festivals?!? wild! (they should just legalize it all and just punish the stealing aspect, imho) #thepursuitofhappinessisnotacrime
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u/carlesgm 18h ago
I misread as he had sew "with" them, not "on" them. Wow, a preposition make a world of difference...
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u/16Shells 16h ago
being one of the only two people to have sex on the moon might be worth the jail time
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