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    No Rest for NASA Astronauts This Labor Day Weekend

    To Be an Astronaut in China, You Can't Have Bad Breath

    Rock the Same Pair of Undies For a Month Straight With J-Wear (Actually: Please Don't!)

    A Centrifuge Spin Cycle A Day Keeps the Muscle Loss Away...In Space

    "You Want Me to Walk On the Freakin' Moon Wearing What?!"

    Buzz Aldrin's New Hip Hop Album Looks Amazing

    Astronaut Jackassery Shows Large Sums of Money Being Put to Good Use

    Smile: The First Six-Astronaut Crew Ever at the ISS

    Astronaut Koichi Wakata Still Looking for His Magic Lamp

    The 'Space Snuggie' Could Protect Astronauts From Radiation
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    Image of cmaceachen cmaceachen
    09/06/09

    In reply to No Rest for NASA Astronauts This Labor Day Weekend
    "Labor Day was created to encourage Americans to work more"
    No it wasn't. It started in Canada as Labor Unions fought for a 9-hour work day.
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    Image of North Star North Star
    09/06/09

    @cmaceachen: True, but it did not become an official US holiday until 1894. It was created to boost the morale of disgruntled workers - and perhaps convince them to work harder.
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    Jack Loftus promoted this comment Edited by North Star at 09/06/09 3:41 PM North Star was starred North Star was unstarred
    Image of icelight icelight
    08/03/09

    In reply to To Be an Astronaut in China, You Can't Have Bad Breath
    This is the Chinese government we're talking about here. I'm sure they'll claim every one of their taikonauts is superhuman beyond all Western standards, only to reveal that one is composed of 20% lead, one paid 4 million in bribes to get his spot, and a third is actually a 12 year-old girl (despite telling the judges she's 15).
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/31/09

    In reply to Rock the Same Pair of Undies For a Month Straight With J-Wear (Actually: Please Don't!)
    Here is why I am not an astronaut:

    I deal with laundry the same way I deal with Cylons: flush it out the airlock.

    Kick all your clothes into a pile in the airlock and evacuate the airlock. It's especially handy when you have to kill your crewmates. And if anyone gets suspicious, blame it on the shifty-looking shipboard computer.

    Coincidentally, I deal with my waste the same way I deal with Cylongs: flush it out the airlock. It's not hard. Just lay down some paper, pop a squat and take the dump on the paper, wipe and drop the TP on the paper too. Evacuate the airlock. All the nastiness is flushed into the cold vacuum of space. And that is how you take a shit in space.

    Of course, given half a chance, I would totally piss on Telstar 1.
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    Image of PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
    07/31/09

    In reply to Rock the Same Pair of Undies For a Month Straight With J-Wear (Actually: Please Don't!)
    Wow, imagine being the scientist who got stuck doing that job of testing the underwear after the astronaut came back. I bet it's the summer intern who got elected. I think they will soon find that even though these underwear were anti-bacterial, water-absorbent, and odor-resistant, they will never be skidmark resistant.
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    Rosa Golijan promoted this comment PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: was starred PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: was unstarred
    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    07/31/09

    @Purple Monkey Dishwasher: They could add teflon. Nothing sticks to that.
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    Image of bramachari bramachari
    07/24/09

    In reply to A Centrifuge Spin Cycle A Day Keeps the Muscle Loss Away...In Space
    Love Gizmodo, so, not to be a prick, but look up the word "Nauseous."

    The thought of this thing may be nauseous indeed, but I don't see how it could make YOU nauseous.

    ("Nauseous" means causing nausea)
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    Rosa Golijan promoted this comment bramachari was starred bramachari was unstarred
    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    07/24/09

    @bramachari:It's one of those common usage problems.

    "Nauseated" is the proper and preferred form, while "nauseous" is slipping into common usage to the point where it's being accepted by many as meaning "feeling sick" or "affected by nausea".

    I do concede to your point though and if you scroll up, you'll see that you influenced a post today.
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    Image of sharkync sharkync
    07/24/09

    In reply to A Centrifuge Spin Cycle A Day Keeps the Muscle Loss Away...In Space
    I thought women weren't concerned about muscle gain/loss. Rosa=Rosemary?
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    Rosa Golijan promoted this comment sharkync was starred sharkync was unstarred
    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    07/24/09

    @sharkync: Nope, it's just Rosa. And how could I not be concerned about muscle loss? If all the menfolk turned into wimps then I'd have no one to bring groceries into the kitchen...
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    07/24/09

    @Rosa Golijan: On the other hand random exposure to space born gamma rays could turn the men into the Hulks allowing potentially unlimited grocery carrying ability.
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    07/24/09

    @Xeno: Then I'd never have to step away from the stove!
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    Image of Digo Digo
    07/24/09

    In reply to A Centrifuge Spin Cycle A Day Keeps the Muscle Loss Away...In Space
    Pretty soon we'll be able to train under 300x gravity and be as powerful as Goku.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    07/24/09

    @Digo: How powerful is that? Use my scouter to check.
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    Image of Zkdog Zkdog
    07/24/09

    @HumungaCowabunga_GitEmSteveDav...: OMG IT'S OVER 9000!!!!
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    HumungaCowabunga_GitEmSteveDave promoted this comment Zkdog was starred Zkdog was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    07/24/09

    @Zkdog: WHAT?!?!
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    Image of The Nacon The Nacon
    07/19/09

    In reply to "You Want Me to Walk On the Freakin' Moon Wearing What?!"
    Due to respects against conspiracy idiots... My Grandfather was one of the crew who built space lab station for Apollo 11. He simply said "Those darwin idiots are better off getting their attention from else where. Not here, no point making them feel a bit welcomed to any topic. Screw`em."
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    Image of ColtonKaboleoum ColtonKaboleoum
    07/19/09

    In reply to "You Want Me to Walk On the Freakin' Moon Wearing What?!"
    God, those aren't Apollo suits. Those are experimental suits. Can't you read captions? You guys really don't do real technology very well, do you?

    (oh, and I know you won't post this. You never post anything critical.)
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    Image of FurySamurai72 FurySamurai72
    07/20/09

    @ColtonKaboleoum: I promoted this thread so that people may have the honor of tearing this guy a new asshole. you can thank me later.
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    Image of Margatron Margatron
    07/20/09

    @ColtonKaboleoum: This still counts as "gear from the Apollo mission" even if it's the experimental suits that led up to the final design. It's semantics, and a mute point. Your feeble and arrogant attempts to catch Giz in an error are why you don't get promoted.
    Thanks FurySamurai72!
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    Image of FurySamurai72 FurySamurai72
    07/20/09

    @Margatron: You are more than welcome my fellow star bearing friend
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    Image of Buskape Buskape
    06/23/09

    In reply to Buzz Aldrin's New Hip Hop Album Looks Amazing
    FAKE, just like the trip to the moon.
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    Image of JC Whitless JC Whitless
    06/24/09

    @Buskape: I can clearly see the wires used.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    06/19/09

    In reply to Astronaut Jackassery Shows Large Sums of Money Being Put to Good Use
    Hmmm.


    Question what they are doing in the headline, and then kinda sorta support them in the story.


    Mixed message FTL.

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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/19/09

    In reply to Astronaut Jackassery Shows Large Sums of Money Being Put to Good Use
    as cool as the video was -- my curiosity has not been satisfied.
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    Image of FrancesTheMute FrancesTheMute
    06/19/09

    In reply to Astronaut Jackassery Shows Large Sums of Money Being Put to Good Use
    I saw this one a couple weeks ago, pretty sure these guys are Japanese astronauts, so it's not OUR tax money being wasted.
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    Image of thePrototype thePrototype
    06/19/09

    @FrancesTheMute: Just because we aren't paying there salary, who paid for the space shuttle trip and for the space station in the first place??
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/19/09

    @thePrototype: Al Gore!
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    Image of davezatz davezatz
    05/31/09

    In reply to Smile: The First Six-Astronaut Crew Ever at the ISS
    They don't have higher resolution cameras in space? Bet they still eat that freeze dried ice cream crap, too. 1980 FTW!
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    05/21/09

    In reply to Astronaut Koichi Wakata Still Looking for His Magic Lamp
    Not only is this man awesome, when I read more about him, he's the first astronaut to share TWO launches with bats... really.
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