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popsci.com - 6/3/2009

"Pillownaut" Stays in Bed for the Sake of Science | Popular Science

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When humans eventually live on the moon and Mars, the discomforts of eating freeze-dried food and drinking our own urine will hardly be our only space nuisances. Apparently, our feet will tingle, we'll get headaches and toothaches, our eyes will be runny, and we'll have chronically stuffy noses. ...

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