This is the dumbest thing that I've read this year, and I'm in the U.S.
Why would you take #hominid bones on a Virgin Galactic #spaceflight trip? What sort of publicity are you trying to generate? Is the University of #Witwatersrand losing students and looking for a way to attract them back?
"... for the promotion of #science and discoveries in South Africa."
Uh-huh.
Yeesh. More details on this, from a professor of archeology at the Other Site.
"It gets worse. First, @\WitsUniversity is proud of this unethical publicity stunt. Second, one of the fossils is part of a type specimen. Type specimens are international standards of reference and therefore are supposed to be preserved in perpetuity. [followed by a link to University of #Witwatersrand web page announcement]"
The link Professor Collard used. It's a publicity page celebrating this.
John M. Gamble