Cracked Archive - Science
Thanks To Movies You're Imagining Asteroid Fields 100% Wrong
To quote C-3PO, 'The odds of navigating an asteroid field are 3,720 to 1.'
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118 5 Street Drugs Your Doctor Might Prescribe You Someday
Drugs are bad, and ... oh wait. It seems the rest of this article says that drugs are good.
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- By Chris Bucholz
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Uranus Was Discovered By A Guy Looking For Moon Aliens
Finding Uranus was just a cool little side note in the ongoing quest to populate outer space with fantastical beings.
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Skipping Breakfast Doesn't Make You Fat (Probably)
Breakfast is edible magic...except, not really.
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Why The Length Of Your Fingers Dictate Who You Are
You probably don't give much thought to how important your fingers are.
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- By Jay Thomas, Kathy Benjamin, Paul K Pickett
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Behold, The Craziest Chemical Reaction You've Ever Seen
You should NOT try this experiment outside of a laboratory setting, as basically every single facet of this is hilariously toxic to humans.
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Bad News, Everybody: Hydrogen Peroxide Is Useless
After centuries of blindly trusting the stuff, scientists have found that hydrogen peroxide may actually slow the healing process. Thanks, brown bottle of lies!
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6 Ordinary Things (That Reveal Your Deepest Darkest Secrets)
Science says that a bunch of seemingly innocuous things we do on a regular basis secretly mark us as grade-A jerks.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Reasons Why The Marvel Universe Makes Absolutely No Sense
As Marvel developed its increasingly convoluted cinematic universe they proved even they weren't exempt from the occasional misstep.
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- By Stone Erickson
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5 Gruesome Experiments Scientists Tested (On Themselves)
Some brave scientists get around the ethics board by using themselves as guinea pigs.
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- By Richard Gough, Jordan Breeding
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The Secret Of NIMH Was Inspired By A Horrific Experiment
NIMH was a real place and their rat experiments were way darker than the book, movie or your nightmares depicted!
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- By Greg Tuff
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8 Ways Earth Will Look Freaking Insane In Thousands Of Years
There's a good chance that Future Earth will look like a 5-year-old's attempt at making the planet out of mismatched Lego pieces.
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- By S Peter Davis
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5 Huge Innovations Held Back By Plain Human Stupidity
Human Innovation is an unstoppable steamroller, until it collides with the steamroller that is Human Stupidity.
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- By John Preston Ford
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5 Simple Ways to Save Thousands of Lives (Nobody Does)
Us no-smart-brain people tend to think that big problems require incredibly difficult solutions. But, well, of course that isn't always the case.
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- By Jim Avery
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7 Horrifying Pest Infestations You Had No Clue Were Possible
Sometimes, critters get a little sick of humans and will rise up by invading whatever human territory they can.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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