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Priceless NASA Artifact Sold Against NASA's Wishes. Apollo 1. 1 landed on the Moon, an unsurpassed milestone in the history of human exploration. To celebrate, luxury auction house Sotheby’s is launching a mission of its own: to sell the shit out of some priceless artifacts from the American and Soviet space programs, including one that, uh, NASA didn’t really want to see sold. The array of relics range from an original illustration of “The Exploration of Mars” (which sold for $1.

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Sotheby’s told Gizmodo) to a moon- dusted bag used by astronaut Neil Armstrong for lunar return samples during Apollo 1. According to the auction house’s website, the bag—which was one of the most- hyped pieces for obvious reasons—sold for just over $1. That’s actually a bargain considering it was expected to sell for anywhere between $2 to 4 million. Consequently, the bag did not top Sotheby’s all- time highest sale price for a space artifact, which was achieved by the Soviet Vostok 3. KA- 2 capsule when it sold for $2,8.

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It’s unclear how Sotheby’s was able to obtain all of the objects on sale today, and while the auction house has released the amounts each item sold for, it did not disclose any of the buyers. What we do know is that the sale of that high- ticket collection bag was highly controversial. The bag has been the center of a court case between NASA and a Chicago- area woman, who purchased the bag online in 2. Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason Full Movie In English. According to the Washington Post, after the buyer, Nancy Carlson, sent the bag to NASA for testing, the agency told her it “belongs to the American people.”Ultimately, a district judge in Wichita, Kansas ruled that NASA couldn’t keep the bag, despite being sympathetic to the space agency’s argument that it probably shouldn’t have gone on sale in the first place. There’s always a chance the mystery buyer this time will put the bag in public collections.

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Or, just maybe, we’re being too cynical, and the mystery buyer is a museum. It’d be a shame to lose these incredible artifacts, especially on the lunaversary.

Mayweather- Mc. Gregor Showed What Boxing Has To Offer MMAFloyd Mayweather beat Conor Mc. Gregor’s ass; Mc. Gregor put on a respectable effort against an elite boxer, winning a moral victory. Mc. Gregor looked as sharp as he could have, and showcased improved skills; Mayweather was a faded husk of his former self. The fight was competitive in stretches; the fight wasn’t close. In the aftermath of a fight—or any event, really—there’s a battle to decide which single narrative that explains the outcome will win out over the others. This is an act of pruning that serves the general human inability to hold two even slightly contradictory thoughts in mind simultaneously.

Of the competing narratives, the story with the most to offer as an analytical interpretation of events isn’t even necessarily the one that emerges victorious. Being right in a factual sense is less important than picking a story that makes the arguers feel justified in their prior beliefs.

These fights over narrative are less about the event in question than they are about how the people fighting them see themselves, and their power to push that narrative in public discourse. All of the Mayweather- Mc. Gregor narratives have, to a greater or lesser extent, some validity. How much is a matter of debate, and that debate—complex, and with no objectively “correct” answers—is where that inability to simultaneously consider two contradictory arguments comes into play. It’s just so much easier to pick one.

Right now, the “moral victory” narrative seems to be winning by a landslide. If that helps wrap things up with a neat, tidy bow for viewers who felt they got their money’s worth, I suppose that’s fine.

But there’s something broader we can take from the fight itself: the depth and the complexity of boxing as a sport, how Mayweather used that, and what it has to offer fighters like Mc. Gregor. On a technical level, Mayweather essentially fought a more extreme version of his fight. In the first three rounds, as he usually does, he gathered information. The pace Mc. Gregor pushed—he routinely threw 2. In the absence of offense from Mayweather, that was enough to win the rounds. Very few of those shots landed cleanly, or at all. Mayweather is a defensive maestro not because he doesn’t get hit—he does—but because it’s nearly impossible to hit him hard enough that it matters, and enough times to clearly win a round.

Mc. Gregor’s head shots bounced off Mayweather’s gloves, caught him from a glancing angle, and landed at the very end of Mc. Gregor’s reach, where the force had already dissipated. His body shots hit Mayweather’s elbows and gloves.

The only real success Mc. Gregor found was on the counter, nailing Mayweather with a fantastic left uppercut and then occasionally thereafter. Consider the defensive difference between the two fighters. Mayweather uses a layered system consisting of slips, rolls, parries, blocks, distance, and angles to avoid his opponents’ shots. Mc. Gregor, by contrast, has defensive moves, including a nice slip and roll, but doesn’t put them together into a coherent whole that’s worth more than the sum of its individual parts. Now consider the strategic difference between the two. Mayweather doesn’t mind giving away early rounds in order to gather information.

By working at that quick pace and throwing a ton of shots, Mc. Gregor happily gave Mayweather all the data he needed on his preferred distance, timing, shot selection, and footwork. Even if he were thinking about the long run of the fight, Mc. Gregor didn’t have the tools to modulate himself.

A cynic might say Mayweather let Mc. Gregor look good early.

That’s certainly possible. I think it’s more likely that he was rusty: He said he didn’t spar in the month prior to the fight to save himself from potential hand injuries. He hadn’t fought in more than two years. He’s 4. 0 years old. If taking some time to get rolling and figure out an unknown opponent had the added benefit of making Mc.

Gregor look like a viable foe to a huge audience, so much the better. Sometimes two seemingly contradictory narratives can have a whole lot of overlap.

By the fourth round, Mayweather had adjusted. He figured out Mc. Gregor’s distance and timing. He started to come forward and pressure, something he has done in bursts but rarely committed to for this long since his much younger days. Mayweather’s key discovery was that by crowding Mc.

Gregor, he could take away his power and therefore his already slim chance of winning the fight. Mc. Gregor isn’t an accomplished puncher because he throws with enormous, shocking force, like Shane Mosley, Mike Tyson, or any number of MMA knockout artists. Instead, he’s a snappy puncher who has a knack for catching his opponents cleanly, from odd angles, and at the point in the arc of the punch where it has the greatest amount of force. When Mayweather pressured Mc. Gregor, he took away his ability to land from angles and at the snappy part of the punch’s arc.

He saw Mc. Gregor’s shots coming. Even though Mc. Gregor still landed at a comparatively high rate, his shots were devoid of power, and few landed without being deflected.

Mc. Gregor simply doesn’t have the clean, fundamental punching technique to generate power in tight spaces. So while the punch stats look impressive on paper, Mayweather pressured Mc. Gregor like a fighter who wasn’t worried about getting hit back. Once he figured that out, the finish was simply a matter of time. Doing that required the kind of strategic sense that’s hard to find in MMA, though a few fighters have it.

The kind of experience that allows fighters to develop that sense is hard to acquire, and the fewer rounds in any MMA fight makes it unwise to give away rounds to serve a greater purpose. Still, there’s a lesson in Mayweather’s strategic brilliance and information- gathering. Mc. Gregor showed off two good things: a much- improved jab and strong footwork, both of which kept him at distance, moving, and stepping to angles in ways that papered over some of his other technical deficiencies, of which (by boxing standards) there were many. He did a couple of unorthodox things, including switching stances and working back- takes in the clinch. For the most part, though, Mc. Gregor’s improvements and the limited success he had were due not to some mystical MMA wizardry but to boxing.

He pivoted, turned, sidestepped, worked a jab, measured distance, and threw combinations. A particularly insufferable segment of the MMA world got very into the idea that Mc. Gregor was going to “disrupt” the stagnant sport of boxing like some new killer app to an industry like taxis or grocery delivery. This was bullshit before the fight; it employed the same tricks and analytical fallacies as the marketing and PR campaigns for a Theranos or Juicero, full of buzzwords like “angles” and “innovation.” In reality, it was based almost entirely on a proud ignorance of the diversity and technical acumen that boxing already contains, and has contained for generations. It’s even more bullshit afterward. Mc. Gregor didn’t disrupt anything.

He spent a few months boxing, had a boxing match, and now he’ll presumably go back to MMA. The irony here is that boxing technique is what’s currently disrupting the metagame of MMA, not the other way around. Don’t be fooled by the spinning kicks and occasional strange stance: Mc. Gregor’s success in his native sport is built mostly on his command of a few pieces of the sweet science, especially the angles on his counterpunching and his basic footwork.

His trademark punch, the inside- angle counter left hand, is a boxing staple. UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt is a former amateur boxer. So is heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic. Both the middleweight champion and the interim titleholder, Michael Bisping and Robert Whittaker, are mostly boxers in the cage.