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“Where do you live, Jupiter?” asks one redditor, after looking at PoshNoob’s startlingly detailed amateur photograph of Saturn. (/r/pics)
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What did Saturn look like to Ron Garan, as he gazed out from the windows of the International Space Station? No one asked that in the astronaut’s AMA last night. Garan, who just returned from a six-month mission to the station, said the most extraordinary thing he saw was the India-Pakistan border at night. Here’s his photograph. What was the ride back to Earth like? According to Garan: “going over Niagara Falls in a barrel (that’s on fire) followed by a high speed crash.” (/r/IAmA)
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Here’s everything you wanted to know about the current state of virtual reality, from an expert in the field. (/r/askscience)
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Meanwhile, also at r/askscience, a researcher who works on Alzheimer’s drugs is taking your questions. How long until we find a cure? “A true cure will probably not be found unless we get a lot better at diagnosing and intervening early. By the time you show clinical manifestations, the disease is already quite progressed. The NIH recently had a “state of the science” meeting on AD. They concluded that the only strong factors for prevention were improved diet, not smoking, reduction of depression, and exercise.” (/r/askscience)
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On a scale of one to expert fantasy mapmaker, how geeky are you? You likely can’t compete with Drinkinghorn and his pals. Not only is his name–a reference to fantasy drunkenness–cooler than yours, he and his friends are probably the greatest amateur-expert fantasy mapmakers of them all. Just take a look at their fine, hand-made work. (/r/geek)
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People with Ph.D.’s in neurophysiology make for formidable opponents when debating zombie brains. Who would have figured? (/r/bestof)
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Does Reddit function best as an uncensored free-for-all or a well-moderated and well-mannered community? (/r/TheoryOfReddit)
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Devin Clark, creator of Comedy Central’s Ugly Americans, is answering your questions. (/r/IAmA)
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If you learned about the Manhattan Project in high school, you were probably told that the scientists were initially worried a nuclear explosion might light the entire atmosphere on fire and basically kill every single thing on Earth. The scientific handwringing was immortalized in the 1989 Paul Newman film about the project, Fat Man and Little Boy. But how much were scientists at the time really concerned about this? “This never was really an issue,” Takuya813 writes. Hollywood and high school have let me down again. (/r/askscience)
Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments.
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