NASA quickly announced that it was OK to touch it. Not to excuse Pence, but I’m sure they are correct and no damage was done. Anything that has been precision-cleaned and literally cannot be touched by bare hands would be double-bagged, or single-bagged and sitting inside a cleanroom.
Did it come with a picture of an astronaut kissing the VP’s ass? Even if it was supposedly o.k. to touch it(:rolleyes:), Pence wasn’t told this until after he touched it.
Then the universe would have imploded, collapsing upon itself in a massive sign reversal of dark energy and the eruption of R’lyeh from the ocean floor, releasing the Star Spawn of Cthulhu which Donald Trump welcomes as his true “3 to 5 million missing voters”. SAN check, 1D10/5D20.
To be fair, the sign didn’t say not to touch the thing. The “DO NOT TOUCH” was in quotes, so it was merely reporting that somebody else had said not to touch something.