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with all the stuff floating around the Earth it is no surprise that many feel they will be a great risk to not only rockets and spacecraft, but maybe to us on the ground as well. Space junk clutters the orbit around Earth that includes disabled satellites, lost space tools, and discarded rocket test stages. [...]

Filed under: Space, Things that will kill us by JMH
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As if Santa didn’t have enough to do already tonight, NASA invited him to check out their 3 space shuttles on Christmas Eve at Kennedy Space Center. In an official announcement, NASA granted Santa permission to fly over various Kennedy sites — including the Shuttle Landing Facility, the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and orbiter processing [...]

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the yo-yo dieting phenomenon has always been well known. Diets lose a lot of weight, but eventually you gain it right back. Dieting has been linked to forms of binge eating. Shaving calories triggers molecular changes in the brain that make mice more susceptible to stress and binge eating long after the diet ends, researchers [...]

Filed under: Biology, Health and Medicine by JMH
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There was a study on this? Has there been talk of lowering the drinking age? Why would there be anyways? Drinking is arguably one of the most dangerous drugs around int he hands of kids. Although presidents at some U.S. colleges have argued that lowering the minimum legal drinking age could help curb binge drinking [...]

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The NASA Space Shuttle line will be retired sometime next year (was this year so who knows how soon in reality), and NASA plans to use privately funded spacecraft in the future to deliver cargo to the space station. At some point they hope to also deliver crew in this manner. The NASA-backed mission was [...]

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Religion has long been considered a main ingredient in what makes people happy. Some will argue that non-belief is a hopeless existence, and that only belief can make life seem to have a purpose. While I subscribe to neither of these beliefs it is an argument used as the backbone of the “speech” to non-believers [...]

Filed under: Psychology/Human Mind by JMH
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