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Space Etiquette: Top Ten Tips From Astronauts, Space Docs and the Giz

So you're going into space? Don't laugh, many of you reading this will probably be space tourists, and some of you may even end up living there. Experienced astronauts and space doctors want you to know how to be cool in space, not stepping on anyone's toes (figuratively, of course) while floating around in zero G, where everything is different. These space veterans have some tips for that first space mission you're planning, making life easier for everyone on board: More »

2:27 PM on Thu Oct 19 2006
By Charlie White
1,301 views, 39 comments

Latest by spaceflight101: Until artificial gravity is developed, it is necessary to find out if conception can occur in microgravity, because until FTL is developed, serious spaceflight will be multigenerational. Something many of you have missed is Newton's laws of motion, and the more »

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Ten Commandments of Cellphone Etiquette

Dan Briody, Infoworld columnist extraordinaire, hates cellphones. Easy enough. He tossed together a list of the ten commandments of cellphone etiquette. It ranges everywhere from turning off the cellphone in public places, to sitting the cellphone on the table at dinner, to using the cellphone in inappropriate places, to having doofy ringtones. More »

10:59 AM on Fri Jul 7 2006
By Travis Hudson
884 views, 19 comments

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Portable Cellphone Booth

The video explains it all. If you are too concerned with cellphone etiquette then this may be the way to go, if you want to look like a fool, of course. – Travis Hudson More »

11:53 AM on Fri Jun 9 2006
By Travis Hudson
205 views, 15 comments

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Cellphone Etiquette: When's It OK to Gab?

Harris Interactive did a LetsTalk survey about when it's OK to talk on a cellphone in public and when it's not. Most (63%) of the 2000 US cellphone owners who responded thought it was OK to talk on a cellphone while driving, or in the supermarket (66%), but bothering everyone around you by gabbing on that phone in a movie theater (just 2% said that was ok), or cellphoning while sitting on the shitter (38% approved) or at a restaurant (21%) were generally frowned upon. More »

11:06 AM on Thu Jun 8 2006
By Charlie White
764 views, 17 comments

Latest by non-meat-stick: i would say during sex is cool if you use speakerphone. ;-) At the resturant though, it's mainly the ringer that annoys me. And people who look at their phone for 15 seconds while it rings before they answer it, more »