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    Image of jayhawk11 is not a fan of smallpox. jayhawk11 is not a fan of smallpox.
    02:35 AM

    In reply to New Spacesuit Design is One-Size-Shrinks-to-Fit-All
    This type of suit has been looked at for a long time, especially for endurance missions due to their lighter weight. MIT is working on one called "Bio-Suit". Kinda neat stuff. Think of it as super advanced Under Armour.
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    12:45 AM

    In reply to Butterflies Fly in Space for the First Time to Creep the Beheyzeus Out of Me
    Anyone know if moths are able to fly without gravity? I'm guessing yes but not well. Any celestial entomologists in the audience care to 'weigh' in on this?
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    12:39 AM

    In reply to Butterflies Fly in Space for the First Time to Creep the Beheyzeus Out of Me
    "I can only imagine their confusion as they discovered there was no gravity."

    Well, since they never really lived (and definitely never flew) in an environment with gravity, they wouldn't know that anything was different, and I suspect that they fly the same in zero-gravity as butterflies on Earth fly here, since they were raised completely in this environment and their bodies would have matured accordingly.
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    Image of shadowxcore shadowxcore
    01:21 AM

    @Platypus Man: yeah. and the evolution of mankind happened in a day.

    if a human was born in space, i speculate that the absence of gravity, bones and cartilage and muscle tissue, and the overall structure of our bodies would be impacted heavily. even if they did develop form, i doubt that it would be dense enough to even walk on, without the resistance of gravity
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    Image of walker2151 walker2151
    01:22 AM

    @Platypus Man: Aren’t other species and animals or whatever born knowing how to walk or how to do some things even though they haven’t done them before? Maybe someone should have a Bambi in Space experiment
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    01:25 AM

    @shadowxcore: That may be true, but you're talking about a human body, not the relatively simple and much smaller body of a butterfly.

    Also, I could be completely wrong. I'm just speculating.
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    01:26 AM

    @walker2151: Yeah, I know that giraffes, for instance, walk moments after being born, but as I said in my other reply, this is an insect, which is much simpler than humans, giraffes, or Bambi.

    Either way, that just helps prove my point. They still know how to fly just fine. Despite the different gravity, they can still fly.
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    Image of walker2151 walker2151
    02:51 AM

    @Platypus Man: umm true
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    12:35 AM

    In reply to God's Home
    Beautiful.
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    Image of qbrad qbrad
    12:25 AM

    In reply to Butterflies Fly in Space for the First Time to Creep the Beheyzeus Out of Me
    They'll clog the instruments!!!
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    Image of GrimaceXL GrimaceXL
    12:32 AM

    @qbrad: Watch out! They're ruffled!
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    Image of superberg superberg
    12:58 AM

    @qbrad: It's okay, the inanimate carbon rod will save us.
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    Image of :negated: :negated:
    12/01/09

    In reply to God's Home
    I refuse to believe that any self-respecting omniscient deity would choose to live in a cloud of dust leftover from the remnants of previous generations of stars, of all places.

    That's like living in a cloud of your own filth, and if I was religious, I'd hope my deity of choice had a little more dignity than that...
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    Image of senatormayer senatormayer
    12:41 AM

    @:negated:: My deity lives in my freezer and eats all my ice cream. I hate him.
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    Image of BeyondtheTech BeyondtheTech
    12/01/09

    In reply to God's Home
    I looked at the title and thought "God is Home." And to think, I didn't scrub the rings around the toilet or pick up some rugelach on the way home.
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    12/01/09

    In reply to God's Home
    To put the size of this thing into perspective, the closest star to us is about 4.22 light years away...
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    Image of back_at_it back_at_it
    12/01/09

    @32ndnote: Did the Sun get demoted from star status along with Pluto being demoted from planet status? Couldn't help myself :D
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    12/01/09

    @back_at_it: Lol, you got me!

    *edit* 4.22 light years from the center of our little solar system, of which earth is about 15.8 micro-lightyears away from.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    12/01/09

    In reply to This Is Why a Book About the Moon Costs $90,500
    My father was close personal friends with Jim Irwin (Apollo 15), and I got to know him pretty well when I was younger. When they returned to earth, Jim tried to keep a small piece of moon rock, which NASA flatly denied. If they didn't let the Lunar Module Pilot keep a rock, the chances of them letting anyone else have one are pretty slim.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/01/09

    In reply to This Is Why a Book About the Moon Costs $90,500
    That table looks awesome for plotting my invasion of the moon on....or the more likely scenario, for playing a tabletop campaign of Warhammer.
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    Image of The5thElephant The5thElephant
    11/27/09

    In reply to Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
    Little did this particular turkey realize that his father's crazed ramblings about how his son would one day fly in space actually came true.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    11/27/09

    In reply to Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
    I doubt that "sneaking" the turkey into space really entailed violating some security rule. I bet that astronauts are allowed to bring some weight in personal fixings when they go into space.
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    Image of JTX JTX
    11/27/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: I bet those "personal fixings" are thoroughly examined as well, and approved on a strict and individual basis. I'm sure it's far worse than airport security. We're talking a multi-billion dollar international facility. Nothing gets on it without being checked at least a few dozen times first.

    Now, these meals could have been placed in someone's personal fixings and have been approved, but I doubt they were snuck on without anyone's knowledge.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    11/27/09

    @JTX: They could have snuck the food in using their rectal cavities.
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    11/27/09

    In reply to Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
    Is it just me, or does that photo look like a jumping head-crab from HL2 is about to pounce on the shuttle Atlantis?
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    Image of Trey Trey
    11/27/09

    @Kirkaiya: It's definitely not just you.
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    Image of SacredByte SacredByte
    11/27/09

    In reply to Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
    Come on, astronauts sneaking things into space isn't really a new thing -- it goes back at least as far back as the Apollo missions where Alan Shepard brought everything he needed to play some golf on the surface of the moon. That basically amounted to modifying the head of a 6 iron to screw onto a rod needed for other scientific equipment, and some golfballs.

    You've got to realize that the people who get to go into space these days (and especially in the early days) were the best and the brightest; Figuring out how to do something crazy (like playing golf on the moon) would have been worth it just to be able to do it.
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    Image of MavrixWK MavrixWK
    11/27/09

    @SacredByte: I often wonder where that golf ball went, and what alien race now worships it as their god.
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    Image of geekymitch geekymitch
    11/27/09

    @MavrixWK: Indeed - you remember the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy" where a soda bottle wound up being some holy object? This is probably something similar to some aliens someplace :)
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    Image of The5thElephant The5thElephant
    11/27/09

    @geekymitch: The premise behind "The Gods Must be Crazy" is probably the best set-up to any movie ever.
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    Image of TrapOx TrapOx
    11/27/09

    In reply to Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
    The story is pure bull. You don't "sneak" anything into one of the most secure facilities on earth, especially into a ship where launch calculations are based around every gram of material loaded onto it.

    A turkey and fixings may not amount to much for you and I on earth, but to engines that have to accelerate that mass to 23,000mph a 13lb turkey is like asking a Viper to pull a 2,000lb trailer to 250mph.

    If this story is actually true, its pretty horrifying. If somebody can collaborate to sneak an entire intact turkey into an extremely secure government facility without the ground crew knowing, whats to stop a corrupt astronaut from smuggling 13lbs of C4 onto the spacestation?
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    Image of sickforska sickforska
    11/27/09

    @TrapOx: No where in there does it say anyone brought an entire turkey on board. It just says "...turkey—smoked and irradiated..."
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    Image of FalconFour FalconFour
    11/27/09

    @TrapOx: In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I figure I should give you thanks for creating the post-9/11 state of mind. Thanks for being that paranoid individual that causes hundreds of ridiculous rules and regulations to be created for every possible bomb-carrying scenario. After all, that guy driving next to you on the road might just have a bomb in the trunk. Let's outlaw driving. *facepalm*
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    phunnyballs promoted this comment FalconFour was starred FalconFour was unstarred
    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    11/27/09

    @FalconFour: No its actually physics.

    To send stuff into space takes a lot of fuel. Fuel costs a lot of money.

    I think estimates are about $10,000 per pound to launch something.
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    11/27/09

    @TrapOx: I think your tin foil hat is on a bit too tight there, chief.
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