On Wednesday, six Russian women began an eight-day experiment onboard a mock spacecraft to examine how an all-female crew fare with the physical, social and psychological strain of long-haul spaceflight.

The team will perform 10 scientific experiments to simulate the pressure of working on a spaceflight to the Moon and back. They will also have 1.5 hours per day of free time, where they can watch films, read and socialize.

The women, aged between 22 to 34, are Yelena Luchitskaya, Darya Komissarova, Polina Kuznetsova, Anna Kussmaul, Inna Nosikova, and Tatyana Shiguyeva – all of whom have expertise in medicine, biophysics or psychology.

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http://www.iflscience.com/space/all-female-moon-flight-test-crew-asked-how-they-will-cope-without-make-or-men-space

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Hunters on a private ranch in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming stumbled upon an incredible and mysterious scene: a massive crack in the earth that in some places resembles a mini Grand Canyon.

SNS Outfitter & Guides first reported the anomaly on its Facebook page on Friday, saying it “appeared in the last two weeks on a ranch we hunt in the Bighorn Mountains. Everyone here is calling it ‘the gash.’ It’s a really incredible sight.”

With no earthquakes reported in the area, locals were stunned and at a loss to explain the shift of soil and rocks that left the gaping crack estimated to be 750 yards long by 50 yards wide. ...

Read more at http://www.grindtv.com/nature/massive-crack-in-earth-mysteriously-opens-up-in-bighorn-mountains/#5c4TJZFBhFrZpZFk.99

For the first time in memory, I'm switching off from a debate.

Or, rather, from what's passing itself off as a debate. I'm not sure what it is, but it's not a debate. It feels as though I unknowingly volunteered for brain damage. Watching further would be unjustifiable mental abuse, and I refuse to do that to myself.

Huge props to those of you with stronger stomachs, wish I was one of you. But I'm not.

Ken Buck promised to take some "Weld County bullshit" to Washington, and he's delivered it via his membership in the Freedom Caucus. Now it seems his 'gift' is being returned to him.