Have you ever thought about having a collection of three cockroaches that have been fed moon dust for years? Well, that's what the RR Auction auction house proposes with this NASA Cockroach Auction. It is a combo of a case with microscope slides and also this unusual “bonus” with the three animals. According to the organizers, this material of great historical value should attract collectors from all over the world and bid millionaires.
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History is made up of many details that we don't always know, and this is a good example. After all, after man's first trip to the moon, in 1969, few people were interested in knowing what was done with the collected lunar dust. In this case, it would be a very big risk to carry out tests with human beings, since it was not possible to know whether the material would be harmful or not.
Faced with this problem, NASA decided to use another rather unusual test agent: three cockroaches. Thus, for a certain time, these cockroaches received lunar dust as food to investigate the effects of the material on earthlings. Therefore, these animals contributed a lot to the development of modern science and understanding of the lunar structure. After so many years, these cockroaches were dissected and are now available to the highest bidder.
Bids can reach almost R$ 2 million
The auction is open with availability of new bids until June 23, 2022. For now, the highest bidder has a value of US$ 22,000, but organizers expect that number to grow a lot in the coming days. According to expectations, the values for the purchase of this historic material should reach US$ 400,000. This number means approximately 2 million reais in recent dollar exchange rates.
To understand the exorbitant value at least, it is enough to understand that this material is part of human history. This is certainly enough to attract many collectors of historical artifacts who are willing to pay handsomely for a piece of history.
