NASA rethinking death in mission to Mars [via davidgallaher1]
How do you get rid of the body of a dead astronaut on a three-year mission to Mars and back ( Read more... )

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theepth pointed me in the direction of The 8 Phases of Goatse (safe for work; just reaction photos and psychological counseling to help you through the stages). This is a must-click!

USPS will be helping Star Wars celebrate its 30th anniversary. With. R2-D2. Wrapped. Mailboxes. [Ready. Go.]

Freakonomics Blog reports on a controversial new idea: ( Read more... )

I repeated my "pick a number between 1 and 20" experiment over in antarcticlust's scientific salon thelunarsociety. Here's the raw data. This time around, with 34 responses, 17 came up 26.5% of the time out of 34 responses. Here's a pretty little graph of the distribution. In a perfect scenario, each number would occur 5% of the time.


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We're returning to our "pick a number between 1 and 20" poll from last week. You guys picked 7 the most often, a whopping 23% of the time out of 30 responses. I don't think my sample size was large enough to get the results I was aiming for, which are detailed below.

From Cognitive Daily:

The idea is that 17 will always be the most common ( Read more... )

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Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.