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The Weirdest Stuff We’ve Launched Into Space
From the minute we started sending humans into space, authorised and unauthorised paraphernalia have gone with them. Even unmanned spacecraft hauled oddities to the far reaches of our solar system. Here are a few items that have reached where most of us will never go.
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11 Sci-Fi Films That Actually Deserve Reboots
Hollywood’s favourite pastime is remaking movies, or at the very least, slapping on another sequel and making millions. While that’s all fun and good — I’m looking forward to the new Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and Terminator like everyone else — many other sci-fi films also deserve adequate reboot/sequel attention.
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14 Maps That Reveal The Hidden Beauty Of Big Cities
In these decades of freely accessible online maps, it’s totally normal to be addicted to what Wikipedia describes as a “symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions and themes” (best Wikipedia definition ever?). And when you are in love with maps, you want them on your wall, don’t you?
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The History Of NASA’s Iconic Countdown Clock (And A Look At The New One)
A few days ago every space enthusiast got sentimental when, after 45 years of operation, the iconic countdown clock at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site was disassembled for removal. Perhaps more than any other piece of equipment near the launch site, the countdown clock was a piece of history.