Space
Space: the raddest frontier. Home to lightsabers, the Na'vi, and a whole planet that serves as Jeff Goldblum's red light district. What's not to love! Is it the billionaires in space? Yeah, nobody likes babysitting the billionaires in space. Nah, we're here to talk about cool stuff, like how growing up reading what our dads called “too many” sci-fi books might solve real problems. Or how it seems like space researchers are horror movie fans, just like us.
But maybe cool your jets on intergalactic planetary living for now (you've probably got space travel all wrong anyway). Humanity might be on the cusp of a new age of space travel, but we enough scary facts about space to keep us groundbound, for now. Plus, we're particular about our tools. That said, we are creatures of the internet—put cats in space, and we'll be right there with them.
6 Ways Movies Get Space Wrong (by Astronaut Chris Hadfield)
If you're ever up in space and suddenly go blind, don't panic. Chris Hadfield can totally see now.
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784 5 Things Movies Always Get Wrong About Space
Thanks to Hollywood magic, we've at least got a pretty good idea of what it's like in space. Right?
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- By Fernando Ramirez, Tim Howell
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Why 2013 Gave Us Reason to Care About Space Again
I firmly believe that a decade from now we will all look back on this year as one of the most important years of space travel in human history.
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- By Soren Bowie
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6 Insane Schemes Attempted at the Dawn of Space Travel
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- By Xavier Jackson, Evan V. Symon , Ivan Farkas
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6 Reasons Life in Space Sucks (That Sci-Fi Doesn't Show You)
Apparently, the hardest part about life on a space station or moon base is a whole bunch of little everyday annoyances that will make your life a living hell.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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The 5 Most Badass Things Ever Done in Space
Space never stops being cool.
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- By Luke McKinney
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18 Sports That Are Way More Fun to Play in Space
Every sport is 'extreme' when it's in space. Take out gravity and replace it with rockets and you have a pretty badass version of ... well, really, anything.
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The 6 Most Bizarre Things Ever Discovered in Space
Humanity has been looking out into space for thousands of years, and the most important thing we've discovered over that time is that everything is crazy weird out there.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Micah Kolding
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12 Pictures of Space You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
Space is just flat-out crazy as hell. Oh, don't take our word for it or anything; we have photographic evidence.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Famous Space Missions That Almost Ended In Disaster
When it comes to the reality of space, you can't just make up some tech jargon and reconfigure the deflector shields. It involves a lot more effort to think through panic, fire and toxic fumes.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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6 Myths Everyone Believes about Space (Thanks to Movies)
Yep, it's not enough for space to make us feel small -- it needs to make us feel stupid, too.
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The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Things Ever Discovered in Space
Hollywood's most creative minds can't get past populating the place with planets that look a whole lot like Earth, populated by rapey aliens and Muppets. But real space is far, far stranger.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Mike Cooney
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7 Awesome Images That Will Make You Mourn The Space Shuttle
It's over: No more manned space missions on the agenda. Here's what we'll be missing.
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- By Robert Brockway
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The 6 Weirdest Dangers of Space Travel
When mankind finally makes the big leap from Earth to space, it's probably not going to be the time-warping black holes or mouth-raping aliens that do him in. In fact, tomorrow's astronauts will be on the lookout for dangers that are laughably mundane.
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- By Ethan Lou
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5 Soviet Space Programs That Prove Russia Was Insane
The thing about the Iron Curtain is that we'll never fully know what crazy shit went on behind it during the Cold War. And that's too bad, because the little hints that leak out really make it look like these people just did not give a shit.
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