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Over the past few days, most of you have been sharing your epic New Year's Eve and holiday stories with your friends and coworkers. No story you tell, however, will be as epic as Gerry Carr's, Bill Pogue's, and Ed Gibson's. If the names don't immediately ring a bell, those men were the crew of Skylab 4 and spent their New Year's Eve orbiting around earth. It wasn't exactly as much fun as it sounds though. While people on Earth were bringing in 1974 with booze and kisses, the Skylab 4 crew were dealing with a mutiny while in orbit. Click through this mini gallery for more on the interesting incident. via ...

Do you ever feel like a tiny speck of dust in a vast universe? Well, you’re actually way, way smaller. Each human is like an atom in a skin cell (Earth) within a speck of dust (our solar system) floating in an ever-expanding abyss (outer space). Given that this is the case, it’s not shocking to learn that despite centuries of research, we know very little about the world outside our world. While terrifying, this notion is also captivating, so we decided to scour the final frontier’s many mysteries to bring you 10 problems, incidents and oddities that even the world’s brightest scientists can’t ...