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This Week in the Future, October 26-30, 2009: Baarbarian
Some of our favorite stories this week:
- A Japanese team wins the annual Global Green Challenge, crossing Australia in their solar car over four days
- Toyota plants carbon-scrubbing flowers outside their Prius plants
- A helmet-mounted radar for soldiers gives them 360-awareness of potential threats
- Scientists investigate further the curious case of the hideous mole rat, which seems to be immune to cancer
- And a robot pathologist performs ultra-precise autopsies all by itself
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I love naked mole rats.
Love this shirt :D
You guys are super useful. From your DIY to Theo Gray's awesome science experiments. Keep up the great work!
The mole rats were probably the most interesting thing from this week.
now they're going to try and cure cancer and we'll all look like naked mole rats xD
I think that the mole rat article was pretty interesting.
I LOVE POPULAR SCIENCE!!
I love Popular Science too! Also I like how you guys keep up to date and tell us cool things. I love the t-shirt design.
The mole rat smoking is hilarious
I always knew naked mole rats would some day inherit the earth. Now the odds are really stacked against us
Naked mole rats you say? AWWWW YEAH!
"I can't believe he ate the whole thing."
What is that, that freaky thing? Yes that's right, it's a naked mole rat!!
ok. that's. interesting.
LEt the naked mole rats finally help us cure cancer!
Its rufus the naked mole rat
I wonder what other genetically modified plants Toyota is working on? Maybe other types that feed increase production yield?
Haha! I'll take the naked mole rat cure for cancer over a robot autonomously autopsying my relatives...
Nice shirt. That would look good on me.
Nex88. . . i was thinking the same exact thing.
about to win this shirt.
please. im poor.
i have 3 shirts.
seriously.
Man, that is one bizzare picture, is that Mao Tse Tung?
from saint charles, il
I love Naked Mole Rats,I love T-shirts and Pop Sci. What a combo.
In the future, the mole rats will be the first to leave our solar system before the sun explodes. Take us with you!!
Wow, that is totally an awesome shirt.
Power to the mole rat! It just goes to show that the most interesting and beautiful things can be found in all shapes and sizes.
Warning, Warning Will Robertson.... you have a tiny solar vehicle loged in you abdomen and the naked mole rat just dropped ashes on your neck. Warning Warning.....Radar from M*A*S*H just brought you a bouquet of poison Ivy! Warning Warning!
Mole Rat... FTW!
i <3 mole rats
I LOVE BEING POULAR!!!!
..By controlling people's brain through science!
I wonder what its like to have a hive mind...
Now I know why rufus is immortal in Kim Possible. It is nice to know a kid's show has done its homework. All hail the remarkably cockroach-like naked mole rat!
from Chula Vista, CA
amazing shirt... hope the mole rat thing doesnt "fuzz" out though, my family has a lot of cancer in its history from both sides...
Great shirt this time!
Great shirt this time!
Now, this mole rat will be one of the best man friend.
These little critters are doing their best to cure us of cancer and we dip them in acid!!!, Wow that's gratitude for you. How mean have you got to be to dip one in acid to see if it gets burned?
The mole rat is now going to become Man's friend thinks the robot - Hmm What are we becoming?
from New York, New York
Great comments! Wow, what a hit the mole rat is.
We put all of your usernames in a hat (a seriously entertaining exercise), and picked our winner: congratulations martiniduck! You won the t-shirt. I'll send you an email and get your real name and address and we'll get your prize out the door.
Lucky for the rest of you, the fun don't stop-- Play again this week (martiniduck, you can even play again, too). We hope to see all of you rocking PopSci TWITF t-shirts the world over soon.
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I would kill for one of those tshirts! I swear I'd ride a new x10 Rocket in one of those Mars Torture Chambers, carrying the new Taser Grenade Launchers. Then I'd shock the Naked Rats so they no longer destroy the Stealth Wind Turbines. Oh yah I'd take out the Wii Baby and Me too, cuz that's more then creepy.
I work with naked mole rats for a living, would love this shirt!
from New York, New York
Firetext and hannahjane, you're late to win this one (see my comment above), but you can buy it (just follow the link) and fulfill your TWITF dreams directly. :-)
Taylor
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from Ft St John, BC
A robot pathologist finds a victorious Japanese solar race cars in a cadaver.
Just what is that supposed to mean?
molerats have a bathroom also where they like to go and roll in there and other molerats pee and poop so they know each other in the dark, I also her there going to come out with a AS SEEN ON TV product line of skin care products and tooth paste.
from Salina, Kansas
i wish i had an entire wardrobe of molerat shirts... just like doug funnie without the sweater vest
Mole rats rock!