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Worst Jobs In Science

Posted by timothy on Monday September 15, 2003 @02:26PM from the and-shove-it dept.

FortKnox writes "Popular science has the worst jobs in science. Some are silly, some are sick, some make you angry, and some just flat-out suck." And some of them sound fun :)

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Re:yeah by acxr+is+wasted · 2003-09-15 14:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Actually, the humans have it much worse than the monkeys ever did. From the article:

"Thagard also had the distinction of being the first person ever to clean out animal cages in orbit, on the Spacelab 3 in 1985. Engineers promised him that the cages would be at negative pressure, so none of the weightless waste of 24 rats and 2 squirrel monkeys would escape. But when Thagard opened the cages, air rushed outward, leading to a frantic floating-feces chase scene."

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Re:Prison Rape Researcher by acceleriter · 2003-09-15 15:02 · Score: 5, Funny

But without prison rape, why would people fear the DMCA?

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Re:Astro-what? by falzer · 2003-09-15 15:10 · Score: 5, Funny

In Soviet Russia, cosmonauts dreamed about becoming Slashdotters!