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This Week in the Future: November 8-13, 2009: Baarbian.com
We're all about the future here at PopSci; we put the pieces together and deliver the news and nuggets you need to know to stay on top of where this world (and universe, and beyond) is headed. This week, the future's looking like quite the wild party--water from space, libidinous rats, and transforming UAVs. What's not to love?
(Get the details, and win the t-shirt, after the jump).
It turns out humans have likely been drinking water from outer space (and now we know what'd happen if we were to eat a teaspoon-full of White Dwarf Star). The Vatican, meanwhile, has pondered the existence of alien life, and the British army has revealed plans for a new generation of unmanned vehicles. Last but not least (and perhaps most promising), a new breed of mice has been shown to retain excellent hearing, as well as sex lives, in old age (just like Hef!).
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from Acton, Maine
I want a T-shirt
Give me my t-shirt!!!!
I want a shirt!
I have officially left my comment for:
TWITF: November 8-13, 2009: The Shirt.
I would like one. A lot.
--GTO--
GIMMY THAT T-SHIRT...please
Im pretty sure this shirt will look best on me!
yay shirt!
I can't believe all that can happen in just one week.
Size XL ... Please
T-SHIRT!!!!!
Why do I get the feeling that half the posts in this thread are all by the same person? In actual science news, there's water on the moon!
Nudist willing to wear Tshirt if chosen.
Could do with some of those mouse genes.
Alien Pope+Mice Pimp= LOL!!!
woooooo
i want a t shirt please :O
I don't want a shirt, please don't give me a shirt.
This week in the future rocked! I'm hoping for the shirt!
I want a shirt!
3. weird good reasons to give me the shirt.1. i'm awesome. 2. Popular Science is my favorite magazine and website ever!3.I need a new shirt
Shirt Me!!!!!!!
Autobots, roll out!
Someone should this t-shirt for the poor. Just to be nice (once they're rich, they'll read Popsci!!yay).
Whoops.
Forgot to add "give" before this...tee hee
Did anyone notice Stan Lee in the back left corner. I'm just gonna say it...."media whore"
Didn't Asimov write a short story dealing with something similar to the Vatican's take on E.T. life? Complete with a Jesuit grappling with his faith when he finds out something particularly striking about a supernova?
WooHoo! Shirt me please!
Thats a pretty cool shirt i think that it might just look okay on me
I'd surely like to know what the Vatican's take is on whatever the aliens want from us and why they keep coming here all the time.
I guess I wouldn't mind getting a free tshirt
megatron!!!
WOW... lots of people really want this shirt, I wonder how they're going to send it... maybe they'll send it with Atom Teleportation, or stopping time and hand delivering it, or maybe just go with Fed-Ex.
BTW wahnt shirrt pleaze (bad spelling + long comments = getting noticed).
TWITF Shirt!
wooh
I want a t-shirt!
i want a t-shirt!!!!!!
all you have to type is . or something to be considered a comment its easy . lol im master chief and the roflknife demands blood rofl rofl
This would go perfectly with my "Resistance is Futile (if < 1 ohm)" jacket!
Help a PhD student be nerdier than she already is?
I would love to have a canteen full of
White Dwarf Star Water.
It would come in handy!
I eat white dwarf star for breakfast every morning
i want this weeks shirt too. i will obtain 7 (1 for every day of the week)
please just give me it
The alien pope is awesome
GOT MOONWATER?
Awesome shirt this week.
lol the alien pope talking to a pimp rat what next?
from New York, New York
Nice comments! We all just can't get enough of these rodents with vices, can we? And that alien pope sure is dope.
A big congrats to CharlesW-- we pulled your name out of the hat, and now the shirt will be yours! I'll email you today for your real name, snail mail address and shirt size, and you'll be wearing it soon.
For the rest of you, get on over to this week's contest (www.popsci.com/science/article/2009-11/week-future-november-16-20-2009), and give it a go!
See you next week.
Taylor
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