According to the actual article the samples acquired and packed before takeoff, and tested after landing. Having them extracted during parabolic maneuver… is due to another (Ig Nobel candidate) research.

“we have cats cuts at home”

SID was the Commodore 64 sound generator chip. While rest of that era personal computers and game console could just do fancy beeps at most, SID had a programmable synthesizer.

For $30 this “dual person” steam sauna can be yours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cJCA_aueXw

With God All Things Are Possible, So now they are trying to lure aliens?

Worry about your hair in a nuclear apocalypse? Fear no more!

A better one might be: Climate change, be prepared!

Video killed the radio star

Every few months there is a similar such story about this ancient marvel of technology and the people remotely maintaining it against all odds.

I can imagine a headline 100 years from now:

“Engineers are modifying Voyager 1 decorative panel bolt into a functional interstellar communicator”

Never heard of it so I had to look

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/eighty-six-meaning-origin

Eighty-six is slang meaning “to throw out,” “to get rid of,” or “to refuse service to.” It comes from 1930s soda-counter slang meaning that an item was sold out. There is varying anecdotal evidence about why the term eighty-six was used, but the most common theory is that it is rhyming slang for nix.

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You can read it here https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Journal_of_Advanced_Computer_Technology

In 2005, two scientists, David Mazières and Eddie Kohler, wrote a paper titled Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List and submitted it to WMSCI 2005 (the 9th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics), in protest of the conference’s notoriety for its spamming and lax standards for paper acceptance. The paper consisted essentially only of the sentence “Get me off your fucking mailing list” repeated many times, sometimes as illustrations or diagrams.

To get rid of competition and control the economy.

MEN!

They failed at Fetch.

They are facing the room/door to make sure no threat… and annoy their human.

It’s Wednesday!