Robert Schoon
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What Space Does To Each Of Your Five Senses
Commander of the International Space Station and awesome-stronaut Chris Hadfield just finished a weeklong series called “Senses in Space”, where he describes what spending a long time in space does to each of your perceptions. And, apparently, space is generally pretty bad for you.
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The California-Made Earthquake Alarm That Works But California Won’t Build
For all of the devastation caused by the 2011 earthquake/tsunami in Japan, the former, a 9.0 magnitude beast called “Tohoku,” could have claimed far more lives. The reason it didn’t? Since 2007, Japan has had an early warning system — conceived 10 years ago at Caltech — which California still hasn’t managed to set up.…
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Pedro Guessed How High A Balloon Could Fly, So He Gets To Go To Space
Some super lucky people win cars, and some win money, while the rest of us are happy to win a jar of jellybeans for guessing how many there are. And then there’s this guy: “Pedro” from Brazil (the only information given about him) won a trip to space today, and all he had to do…
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This Detailed Lego Oil Rig Will Be Spitting Brick Gold In No Time
Hopefully, this won’t cause any ecological disasters in Legoland. This ridiculously massive Lego oil rig is more than a metre tall and wide, and weighs over 40kg. According to The Brothers Brick, Lego master Tobias Vogt spent three months building this, and it shows in the detailed build-out.