I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Homo sapiens can be a pretty damn awesome species at times:
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMU
Kind of puts Jen's and my recent triumph assembling and hanging a pair of Ikea bathroom cabinets into perspective.
Don't do yourselves down; you need a degree in astrophysics to assemble those things. Plus you deserve a medal if you actually went to a branch of Ikea and emerged without killing someone.
It was worse than that. One of the glass shelves shattered the day after the cupboards went up, so I had to go BACK to Ikea and refuse to leave until they had provided me with a replacement. They said they didn't stick spares, soI suggested they take a shelf out of the cupboard in their showroom. They eventually sussed I wasn't taking 'No' for an answer.
Nasa never has these problems.
Not wanting to sound like a cracked record, I like occasionally to draw attention to the Opportunity rover.
This rather amazingly over-delivering piece of kit was sent to Mars for a 90-day mission and has just completed 12 F'ing years of constant exploration and analysis.
Day 4263!
As you were.