This Week In The Future, October 1-5, 2012 Baarbarian
In the future, when the koalas have taken over as masters of Earth, they'll get rid of the humans by launching their homes into space.
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- Amazing Video: Timelapse View Of The Australian Outback's Giant Radio Dishes
- What It Would Cost To Launch Your House Into Space [Infographic]
- Experiment: Look At Pictures Of Cute Baby Animals To Improve Your Concentration
- The World's Steadiest Binoculars
And don't forget to check out our other favorite stories of the week:
- BeerSci: What Running Marathons Can Teach You About Beer
- What Absolutely Cannot Go Wrong When Felix Baumgartner Attempts The Longest Free Fall In History
- How I Survived A Trip Inside A Military Aviation-Testing Plant To Film 'Top Secret'
- The Art And Science Of Nobel Prize Prediction
- Most Retracted Scientific Papers Are Pulled Due To Fraud
- FYI: Is It Legal To 3-D Print A Handgun?
- Mohamed El-Naggar Hot-Wires Bacteria To Build Semiconductors
- 7 Ways We Thought The Radio Would Transform Presidential Debates
- Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Review: Read Books, At Night
- FYI: Does Watching A Debate In HDTV Influence How You Vote?
- A New View Of The Solar System
- The Goods: October 2012's Hottest Gadgets
- FYI: Could "Smiles," The Psychedelic Drug Implicated In An Actor's Death, Cause Violent Behavior?
- Video: 3 Crazy Maker Faire Projects
- After The LHC: The Next Really Big Experiments In Particle Physics