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That's not a star, it's astronaut urine
The light show Wednesday was aided by an unusually large amount of water being dumped all at once – about 150 pounds (68 kg), said NASA spokeswoman Kylie Clem. Discovery had just undocked from the International Space Station the day before, and had not been able to unload waste water during the 10-day visit. Space.com
9 pound, 9 ounce baby born at 9:09am on 9/9/09
The nines aligned for Henry Michael Berendes’ birth. The third child of Polly and Chuck Berendes arrived at 9:09 a.m. on 9/9/09, weighing 9 pounds, 9 ounces. “I don’t know how it happened, but it’s pretty crazy,” said Chuck, 29. The La Crosse couple talked about the possibility of the triple-nine birthdate and chuckled when [...]
New study proves the express lane sucks
I’ve always wondered if the checkout lane at the grocery store is actually quicker than than the other lanes. My belief is that it isn’t and thankfully someone else did the work to prove it. Dan Meyer did some research and found that it’s not the amount of items that slows things down, but the [...]
Scientists levitate mice with magnets
Scientists working on behalf of NASA built a device to simulate variable levels of gravity. It consists of a superconducting magnet that generates a field powerful enough to levitate the water inside living animals, with a space inside warm enough at room temperature and large enough at 2.6 inches wide (6.6 cm) for tiny creatures [...]
107 miles is the farthest you can be from a McDonald's in the lower 48
Stephen Von Worley got to thinking and crunched some numbers to figure out where you’d have to be in the lower 48 states to be the farthest from a McDonald’s. For maximum McSparseness, we look westward, towards the deepest, darkest holes in our map: the barren deserts of central Nevada, the arid hills of southeastern [...]