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Reddit Blackout Begins as Forums Protest Charges for Developers
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2023-06-12 14:54

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Sunak’s Tories Narrow Gap to Labour After U-Turn on Green Agenda
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Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro and save 84%
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He crushed the bar exam, but the legal profession remains disproportionately White
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DraftKings Sportsbook Launches Kentucky Pre-Registration Bonus ($200 GUARANTEED!)
New DraftKings users in Kentucky will receive a $200 pre-registration bonus just for signing up! See here how to claim this great offer.
2023-08-28 22:54

'Give me my phone!': Tennessee student pepper-sprays teacher following phone confiscation
In the video, students in the classroom can be seen laughing and joking before the student confronts the teacher in the hallway
2023-05-09 07:28

Is Vampire Survivors Coming to PS5?
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A terrifying thing happens to astronauts' fingernails on a spacewalk
Going on a spacewalk might sound like a lot of fun – but in reality it’s no walk in the park. From their muscles getting less dense all the way to erectile dysfunction, astronauts have to put up with all sorts of things going wrong with their body. And none more gross than what happens to their fingernails. Turns out they just fall right off. The technical term for this is onycholysis, and it has to do with how much – or how little – atmospheric pressure there is in space. Because there is so little ambient pressure in space, astronaut’s space suits need to be pressurised to keep the human body intact. But that’s not good for the hands, it turns out. “Injuries to the hands are common among astronauts who train for extravehicular activity (EVA),” says a 2015 conference paper by space specialists Wyle Laboratories. “When the gloves are pressurized, they restrict movement and create pressure points during tasks, sometimes resulting in pain, muscle fatigue, abrasions, and occasionally more severe injuries such as onycholysis. “Glove injuries, both anecdotal and recorded, have been reported during EVA training and flight persistently through NASA's history regardless of mission or glove model." A 2010 study looked at 232 hand injuries sustained by astronauts, and found that the wider your knuckle joints, the more likely you are to suffer in a space suit. The study suggested that because space suit gloves limit the mobility of these knuckles, the fingers then get put under more pressure. This, in turn, means less blood gets to the fingers, and risks onycholysis. Ouch. Work has been done to try to improve the design of space suit gloves, of course. One team found that the more tailored they were to each astronaut’s finger length the less likely they were to lose their fingernails. That’s no mean feat, however. These gloves are made of at least four layers: one which touches the skin, one which helps create the pressurised environment, another one which makes the pressure layer less stiff, and an outer layer which protects the astronaut from everything on the outside. Mercifully for NASA astronauts at least, they usually have their gloves fitted to each wearer, and with new space suit design moving forward each day, the number of injuries is decreasing. Nonetheless, it sounds like a trip to space is no time for a manicure. How to join the indy100's free WhatsApp channel Sign up to our free indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-11-28 21:50

Andrew Tate claims his father's bad spelling misled AI bots into thinking he was 'crazy', trolls say 'even secret service dads don’t text like that'
Andrew Tate acknowledged that his dad often misspelled words and used poor grammar in his emails and Facebook messages
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US Plans to Buy 12 Million Barrels of Oil for Reserve This Year
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