10-Year-Old Accidentally Discovers New Explosive Molecule

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I think that's more to do with scale.

"Hey, multiple objects that are on a scale I cannot even fathom are about to align whilst hurtling insanely fast through space".

Compare that with

"A girl randomly found a carbon chain which will likely be put in a book and will never be seen from again".

I know I'm heavily biased but I think the planets aligning are a little bit more exciting.

Again, good point. I guess that was a bad example, but the same basic idea can be attached to other random chance happenings, so at least it's a possibility. Makes more sense then the escapist being very VERY interested in whatever this possibly-unobtanium does.

Although, the news article did mention it could have great power and may blow stuff up, which is always a plus for a lot of people.