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From The Room: New Photos from Mars Reveal Ice, Hillary Clinton

May 27, 2008 - Early photos from NASA's Phoenix Mars landing show flat terrain marked by a polygonal pattern of shallow troughs and pebbles, confirming their expectation that there is ice below the surface that has repeatedly expanded and contracted. Further photos reveal...

From The Room: Former Rocket Scientist Wants to Know if You Are Hiring

April 2, 2008 - It seems that even rocket scientists cannot escape today's economic uncertainty. In an already slowing job market, NASA announced that their plan to retire the space shuttle in 2010 could result in over 8,0...

From The Room: The New $3.1 Trillion Federal Budget Explained

February 6, 2008 - + $5 billion: Snacks + $1,442.12: Purell dispensers on Air Force One + $340 billion: Junior Year Abroad programs + $12,000: Roads + $128 billion: Tribute paid to China + $6 billion: Aircraft carrier impulse-buy + $87 million: Rumored...

From The Room: Messenger Probe Shows that Mercury Looks Like Your Anus

January 31, 2008 - ...

From The Room: HiQ.com Aims To Find Human Love for Manhattan's Geeks

January 24, 2008 - Founded by Jeff Gates (first cousin of Bill), a new Manhattan-based online dating service seeks to develop love connections for a previously under-served portion of the population. HiQ.com facilitates love matches for so-called computer geeks, socially challenged NASA staffers, persons with advanced...

News Odds for Tuesday, January 15, 2008

January 15, 2008 - Odds that... During today's Michigan primary, GOP presidential hopeful...

From The Room: Feeling Gravity's Sticky Pull

December 10, 2007 - For years, mainstream skeptical scientists have clung to their ivory towers, like bears clinging to their cubs when hunters come to kill Lassie's mother. They throw out their big words, forcing all of us to accept as fact what are, after all, merely theories.1 What's worse, they...

Astronauts can stop drinking any time they want to. They just don't feel like it, OK?

October 19, 2007 - In advance of next week's launch of the shuttle Discovery, furor has ignited over a report released earlier this year by an independent astronaut health council suggesting that heavy pre-mission drinking is rampant in the NASA program. Many spacemen and spacewomen are indignant over the accusations...