Good thing we don’t rate designs on appearances right?

I’m pretty sure installing flash causes real rocket crashs.

I get the reasons and all, but still... that’s the same amount of time that the original space program basically invented space travel itself, and built, tested, and sent spaceships all the way to the moon and back. But in that span of time, we can’t even test an updated version. Again... I get why. But still it makes…

The shuttles flew far past their intended lifespan. Soyuz capsules are brand new at every launch, and they were last updated in 2010. We’re hardly bumming rides, in fact, we’re currently paying $82 million per seat. Sounds expensive, but this is still less than half the cost per seat of the shuttle. (Of course a per…

Hey, there’s always the Chinese to bank on. One of the pros of a single-party totalitarian system is that the Communist Party of China can basically tell their military to get to Mars by a certain date, and they pretty much have to do it (barring some kind of catastrophic economic collapse or program technical…

Quartermass and the Pit, as I recall.

I know the photo is showing the thruster used to push the station, but the picture makes it look like its just a pole used to push the thing, which I find amusing.

Check these!

...And if it’s a simple case of “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” then we’ll also know how advanced their tool making technology was. After all, even very early societies knew how to make rope, and the grasses outside the cave would have provided the raw materials needed to make the stuff.

A few years back, a fantasy novelist I adore asked people to try subscribing to a fiction magazine in order to support the market. She talked about how important it was for authors to have a place to get credibility with audiences, and publishing credentials for when they want to eventually land an agent. She also…

In the words of the late, great George Carlin... “If you’re pre-born you’re good, if you’re pre-school you’re fucked!”

Things to Come 1936

God, I hope this button summons Marvin.

Slashdot is in the past, man. We’ve just got to accept that it was a different era ;/

The answer is also incorrect, and extremely US-centric. Four different poliomyelitis vaccines have been developed, and Salk’s was neither the first, nor the one that pretty much eradicated polio on a world wide basis - Sabin’s oral live vaccine has been far more important.

sigh - can’t we just enjoy the science with trying to start shit?
really.

Already my Bio-anthropology course from a year ago is obsolete.

I’m curious as to why you dumbed down New Scientist’s original article, it was more complex. Perhaps you view your readers as the missing link?