Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# space
Meet the first independent human nation in space. Without an actual presence in space and an iffy plan for how to get there...
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Yuri Milner wants to explore Alpha Centauri with a tiny spaceship propelled by the biggest and most powerful laser cannon ever built. That may be a lot harder than it sounds.
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When not promising us cities on Triton in ten years, the media seems befuddled by and incredulous of the most conservative and realistic plans for space exploration.
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According to pictures from New Horizon, in the darkest, deepest reaches of our solar system, you could stand on the summit of a mountain covered by exotic ices and look up at hazy blue skies.
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Could the far future see a market for selling entire planets not too dissimilar from today's real estate market?
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Someone should tell Elon Musk that a nuclear bombardment of Mars into habitability won't be much of a shortcut.
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New Horizons' flyby of Pluto let us see a brand new world that doesn't fit in our conventional categories, and reminded us that at our heart, we're explorers, not drones.
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The debate over whether Pluto is a planet, much less what constitutes a planet, is still raging in the scientific community.
# sex
The world's biggest porn site wants to take adult entertainment to the final frontier and we should absolutely encourage them.
# space
Pluto may be a dwarf planet whose official status is in flux. But that doesn't mean it's not a very special place...