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more about #nerds more comments → AngusAstral: These so-called "filthy-rich over paid NASA Nerds" as Andrew Belonsky proclaims them to be are being given more credit for their salaries that in real... more » resipsaloquacious: Would have been a lot cooler if they attached a gi joe figure for the ride. more » Crazytree: too bad the American media is ignorant of the fact that a group of Spanish students already topped this feat back in February. oh, and they did it fo... more » PetrolMan: Yes, let's all piss on NASA because all they do is levitate mice and study crystals. They've never done anything for us regular joes. It isn't like th... more » Rhymenocerous: Mr. Belonsky, you might have built this up a little too much. Sort of cool, in a do-it-yourself way, but come on - NASA stuff is at least 62,500 (3 bi... more » icelight: Because as everyone knows, tying a camera to a balloon is just as difficult as putting a man on the moon. And, from some editor's perspective at least... more » Rybanis: Looks like Andrew doesn't know that much about the economic returns of the manned space program - but thats cool. more » friendslikeJimRome: "Arlington Man Killed By Cell Phone in Mysterious Accident" - Boston Globe more » lobstr: the last 20 seconds remind me of the video to Enter Sandman... but, I'd like to know what kind of styrofoam box can withstand the impact from a 17 fu... more » procrastination_state: would have been cooler if they'd aimed the camera down. more » Smitros: Not Halle Berry? Seriously, she's too young. Both Eartha Kitt and Julie Newmar were a bit, um, cougarish by the time they were Catwoman. To be Catwo... more » secretagentman: I call bullshit. If it was true we would have heard this from a better source before The Sun typed it up. more » Magister: The thing about Sean Young is all well and good, but one of the other headlines on that page is "Nessie on Google Earth" and personally, I think that'... more » bess marvin, girl detective: you actually ran something that was printed in the sun? for shame defamer, for fucking shame more » DeltaGuy: Ah, the Sun. Possibly the only News Corp property that actually makes Fox News seem honest. more » -
#nerds
High-Flying MIT Nerds Shame Filthy Rich NASA
The government pumps about $20 billion into NASA each year to levitate mice and study crystals. Whatever. All most of us want from space are pictures. And some MIT students did that for a far cheaper fee. Math lesson, anyone? More » -
#meganfox
Megan Fox will claw her way onto the screen as Catwoman in the next Batman.
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#science
The woefully underfunded yet "inspiring" NASA found some money to send mice into space.
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#paranoidandroid
NYT: "Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man." James Cameron: "TOLD YOU SO."
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#thecinema
Watchmen Shellacked on Second Weekend
Comic-book geeks can't turn movies into blockbusters, or at least that will be the lesson from Watchmen's spectacularly bad second week. Literally begging nerds to see the movie this weekend didn't work. More » -
#celebrityscience
Jimmy Fallon's Nerd Side Might Save Him
Jimmy Fallon's critics hate him for being so awkward and manic. But all indications are the Saturday Night Live veteran will embrace those qualities, crafting the geekiest Late Night yet. More » -
#television
Friday Nights: Good For All Nerd Kind
If you were cool and went out last night, you missed two hours of decent-ish television on the Fox network! Kind of unbelievable, I know. But Dollhouse and Terminator ain't bad. More » -
#photogallery
Nerd Alert: The New York Comic Con
If you detected an extra pungent smell of Cheetos and Mountain Dew in New York today, it wasn't coming from New Jersey. It's emanating from the Javits Center, home of 2009's New York Comic Convention. More » -
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#ivyleague
College: Still Not Safe For Nerds
Salacious college gossip site JuicyCampus is going out of business. You'd think collegians would learn to be polite! But here's "cool" blog IvyGate, calling this nice article the "nerdiest story of the day." That's mean: More » -
#thisthinglookslikethatthing
Sarah Palin To Command the Death Star?
At left is the wicked (and blessedly dead) Grand Moff Tarkin, high-powered henchman to Darth Vader, from the 1977 space documentary Star Wars. At right is Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin speaking at a campaign rally in Colorado yesterday. Note the similarities. We're not sayin', we're just sayin'. [Palin image via Splash]
