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source: futurism.com/science-weekly/

THIS WEEK In SCIENCE
December 20 - 27, 2015-
Biology
Researchers revive plutonium New research shows that the
it production and create enough tardigrade Mater bear) turns into
material to power space missions a special type of when
t for NASA until 2020 . . H “" they dry out
Space Space
A new paper claims that black Spacex successfully completes
holes found in the center of . Falcon 9' s first soft landing in a
galaxies may reach a maximum - major step towards developing
size of about 50 billion Suns I _ fully reusable rockets
Helical
Ill‘
Space
f. : Stanford researchers develop a
ii') s' microscope that allows the first
ever look at live muscle units in
in u
till action
Congress grants NASA an
unexpectedly large . 33
budget. the highest its been in
over a decade

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#15 - razerdude (12/29/2015) [-]

finaly we have a chance of exploring space before we die here on earth

+39

#7 - alalalalal (12/29/2015) [-]

I thought it said it was a $19.38 budget....

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#10 to #7 - enragedonion (12/29/2015) [-]

better than nothing

+15

#76 to #7 - jdizzleoffthehizzl (12/30/2015) [-]

NASA is having a bake sale next week so their astronauts can go to camp

+57

#21 to #7 - sandmansniper (12/29/2015) [-]

And in other news, NASA builds a rocket out of a milk jug, two rolls of duct tape, and a can of raid.

+13

#53 to #21 - demonicshadowfang (12/30/2015) [-]

I didn't realize they hired macgyver. that should help keep costs down

+99

#6 - Greevon (12/29/2015) [-]

#54 to #6 - buttkickerboy (12/30/2015) [-]

Killed me at "Wasp is ouch."

+33

#16 to #6 - Zaxplab (12/29/2015) [-]

But if rock kill animal and stick kill animal what if tie rock to stick

+45

#19 to #16 - capnkrunch (12/29/2015) [-]

This week in Sceince, Jan 9th 2,300,000 BC- Stick tie to rock kill animal better

+17

#20 to #19 - dikslapping (12/29/2015) [-]

Throw stick with stick kill far animal.

+31

#22 to #20 - tarmorman (12/29/2015) [-]

*insert 20 cavemen hooting and hollering while yelling "CROSSMAP!"*

+15

#31 to #16 - thesovereigngrave (12/30/2015) [-]

You are play God!

#18 to #16 - lookuplookdown (12/29/2015) [-]

Madness. Pure madness.

#58 to #16 - zetsuboukamina (12/30/2015) [-]

But if rock not for eat, and stick kill animal, and animal is for eat, then is stick for eat? Is animal killed by rock( found out last week) for eat? Is stuck with rock tied for eat? What do the with? Rock or stick?

#75 to #58 - jdizzleoffthehizzl (12/30/2015) [-]

**** you ask many questions

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#28 to #6 - ldnelson (12/30/2015) [-]

>mammoth for eating

Get out of here with this new age "science" ******** . Next thing you'll tell me is beehive is made of sweet

+334

#2 - canichaikait (12/29/2015) [-]

Did I just read more money for science?!

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#23 to #2 - anon (12/29/2015) [-]

Oh look another neckbeard who claims he loves science but won't actually do anything scientific because watching garbage is so much easier.

+45

#56 to #23 - zestyfox (12/30/2015) [-]

#72 to #56 - lollypopalopicus (12/30/2015) [-]

I love it, but my cynicism makes me doubt.

+74

#34 to #23 - splendiddust (12/30/2015) [-]

we can love what we dont understand

#44 to #23 - anon (12/30/2015) [-]

Speak for yourself.

+15

#26 to #23 - adamannater (12/30/2015) [-]

Savage

#63 to #23 - clavatninenine (12/30/2015) [-]

Shut the **** up, anon.

#77 to #23 - dirtypizza (12/30/2015) [-]

Um, that's pretty much like 98% of people on the internet. Us normal people like to pretend that we are smart instead of admitting how retarded we actually are. Let us be as falsely interested in this science **** as we want ok.

#57 to #23 - hailredtext (12/30/2015) [-]

shhh, you had me at anon

#47 to #23 - battlebrotherlayn (12/30/2015) [-]

Oh look anon being a faggot.

#39 to #23 - thesecretbear (12/30/2015) [-]

As an avid browser of sci, it hurts to do this.

But go back to /sci/

#86 to #23 - zmranger (12/30/2015) [-]

**zmranger used "*roll 1, 1000-9999*"**
**zmranger rolls 9,460**
3edgy5me

#87 to #86 - zmranger (12/30/2015) [-]

#74 to #23 - lilRican ONLINE (12/30/2015) [-]

There are very few people that hate the human race progressing

Stop trying to make it a ******* secret club, You probably dont do anything either.

#69 to #23 - junkbumpkin (12/30/2015) [-]

Says the guy posting as an anon on a site that encourages submitting your own material and making an account and **** .

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#25 to #23 - leifbunny (12/30/2015) [-]

An anon telling the truth. New, but alright.

+15

#8 to #2 - sliferzpwns (12/29/2015) [-]

It kind of scares me, I hope its not a reaction to a potential threat. But if it is, I hope it is enough money to stop said threat.

#9 to #8 - ledd ONLINE (12/29/2015) [-]

Well I hope it only gets larger. All the cool stuff we could do...
Truth is, we waste potential for as long as it's money that stops NASA and not manpower.

#12 to #9 - sliferzpwns (12/29/2015) [-]

Sorry I kind of messed up what I said.
I want Nasa to have lots of funding.
I am scared that there could be a threat of some kind.
I want that threat to be stopped.

So **** you cysco

#13 to #12 - cysco ONLINE (12/29/2015) [-]

its an irrational fear for some conspiracy theorists..

Aliens? if there are aliens in our galaxy, they have better things to do.
Asteroids? NASA would now it years before. and if there is some kind of asteroid on the way.. we would pay NASA instantly.

NASA knows what to do with the money... building defending rockets against aliens or asteroids wouldnt be a decent way to spend that money. they have enough of research to do.

#30 to #13 - anon (12/30/2015) [-]

Actually that's not quite true for asteroids. Contrary to what you might think, it's actually pretty hard to locate them, because the only way to see them at all in most cases is to be looking in their direction when they pass in front of a star. It's like trying to look for black holes, but without the benefit of being able to look for radiological emissions.

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#11 to #2 - gorillabutts (12/29/2015) [-]

It was snuck in as a way to convince the government to sign an anti-net privacy bill. The government did it to make the bill look more appealing to everyone.

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#32 to #2 - leorio (12/30/2015) [-]

www.wired.com/2015/12/congress-slips-cisa-into-omnibus-bill-thats-sure-to-pass/

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#3 - kenshirokisame (12/29/2015) [-]

notice how the power material production stops the moment india becomes a super power. no more space program, but designated ******** streets

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#14 - tittylovin (12/29/2015) [-]

>NASA gets funding
Oh **** yes we are so ******* future now

#37 to #14 - desacabose (12/30/2015) [-]

>NASA getting funding
99942 Apophis gonna knock us the **** out while Obama and Elvis escape on the JFK spaceship

#40 to #14 - fuckya (12/30/2015) [-]

But then this.
www.wired.com/2015/12/congress-slips-cisa-into-omnibus-bill-thats-sure-to-pass/

#59 to #40 - zetsuboukamina (12/30/2015) [-]

They already were doing everything the bill allows. They can just do it legally now

#78 to #59 - badgoodass (12/30/2015) [-]

Now they're gonna do more illegal stuff without getting **** tho

#90 to #40 - desacabose (12/31/2015) [-]

+19

#29 - ADeadlYLepricoN (12/30/2015) [-]

Holy Crap! $19.38?! Thats amazing!

#38 to #29 - jsrf (12/30/2015) [-]

just enough to stage another moon landing!

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#1 - horridnanaa (12/29/2015) [-]

Thats not water bear...

#84 to #1 - thecancerthatkills (12/30/2015) [-]

What's it from?

#67 to #1 - lesolan (12/30/2015) [-]

GIF

It is way more scary when you can see them in motion...

#73 to #67 - nightmarexnxnxnxnx (12/30/2015) [-]

Gotta love how he has a machete in his hand, but just stands there screaming.

#5 to #1 - mescoman (12/29/2015) [-]

FUN FACTS: They can survive being heated to 150 degrees celcius for a few minutes.
They can survive pressures over 1200 times higher than atmospheric pressure, as well as survive for some time in a vaccccuum. They need minimal moisture (their bodies can be composed of less than 5% moisture and they can survive.) as well as survive a ******* of radiation.

#33 - depends (12/30/2015) [-]

congress is funding space and japan is funding realist **** dolls, evolution is upon us.

#60 to #33 - zetsuboukamina (12/30/2015) [-]

What about ********* in space?

#62 to #60 - depends (12/30/2015) [-]

Oh my god, we will have transcended time and space.

#17 - phenact (12/29/2015) [-]

We're going to mars, *************

#42 - severepwner (12/30/2015) [-]

"Study shows that our budget just increased by 19.3 billion dollars. Holee fuk."

#49 to #42 - nanako ONLINE (12/30/2015) [-]

to, not by

#51 to #49 - severepwner (12/30/2015) [-]

I wasn't paying attention I was just making a joke.

#50 to #42 - nanako ONLINE (12/30/2015) [-]

it increased BY about 1.3 billion.

#70 - adunsaveme (12/30/2015) [-]

Man, I love these vague lines
"A new paper"
"Researchers"
"Some guy that's totally legit we swear"

#45 - nanako ONLINE (12/30/2015) [-]

In over a decade? What?

As far as i can tell, it's the highest it's been EVER
but.... (next post)

#55 to #45 - grimsho (12/30/2015) [-]

According to that graph, which is measured in millions, there have been plenty of times they were granted a budget larger than the current 19.3 billion though, such as 2010, which apparently had 20 billion.

#91 to #55 - nanako ONLINE (12/31/2015) [-]

not really en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_accounting

The right hand column is an inflation adjusted representation of the value, not the actual numerical dollar amount they were given

#46 to #45 - nanako ONLINE (12/30/2015) [-]

The percentage of the budget spent on nasa is at the lowest it's been almost since it was founded, and has been on a downward slide for a while now, hovering around half of 1%

During the space race it was getting over 4% of the budget. Shows where our priorities are now. This new increase is nice, but is relatively minor in the grand scheme of things, and still brings it nowhere close to the heyday of its focus

#82 to #46 - anon (12/30/2015) [-]

Yeah well the united states government is also going further and further into debt because of it's crippling inefficiency so that's almost understandable. I feel like people don't really account for that when they complain about NASA.

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#24 - physicsdude (12/30/2015) [-]

No source sweet. Well I can only rant about the things i can say is a 100% ******** without even having to read the article then.

The "a new paper claims" with blackholes: Be more vague. Also we know **** about gravity, especially at massive masses. **** , our theory is so insufficient, it doesn't even cover how massive galaxies doesn't collapse.

Maybe a new paper has claimed that, but it is with 100% guarantee it is complete **** . They have no data and no solid theory on which they can base those claims, at best it is speculations.

#61 to #24 - anon (12/30/2015) [-]

So, basically. You don't know the particulars of what they know - meaning they can be absolutely correct and anything you know on the subject is outdated, but you're going to **** on it until you see otherwise.

Contrary to how it first appears upon reading, that's rather counter-intuitive.

#64 to #61 - anon (12/30/2015) [-]

But " A paper claims" still means *******
Papers claiming **** are all over the place

#41 to #24 - electrozz (12/30/2015) [-]

#88 to #41 - zmranger (12/30/2015) [-]

#80 to #41 - haroldsaxon (12/30/2015) [-]

We should keep thumbing him down and add meaningless comments. How dare he ask for sources?

#81 to #80 - electrozz (12/30/2015) [-]

My reply was a generic response. He was right. I didn't like it, but he was right. I had no response, so I resorted to fart noises.

#27 - deroderpderp (12/30/2015) [-]

So much space news.
Yes.

#4 - onefuckingskurut (12/29/2015) [-]

go go science! : )

#89 - phtholognyrrh (12/30/2015) [-]

best part about the nasa budget is its the pickles on a new government surveillance sandwich, complete with "relaxed internet privacy regulations" ketchup and "more no-knock warrants" turkey on a "you can be held indefinitely in jail without being charged if they say its for terrorism" style wheat bread