Drunk on space sludge

Plus, a teen found 1.5 million things in space.

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Might just be the most financially responsible ego boost you'll get today. [Ad] Find cheaper insurance » Please resist the urge to drink the melted sludge from 3I/ATLAS "Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has come and — mostly — gone. Scientists have been fascinated by the intriguing lump of ice and dust as it careened into the inner solar system last year, making its closest pass of the Sun in the fall and careening by the Earth on its way out. … They found that 3I/ATLAS was teeming with an unusually large amount of methanol, a type of alcohol, exceeding almost all known comets in our solar system. That makes any residue left behind by the comet a particularly poor choice for a drink after a long day at work, since while methanol can get you drunk, it also causes a raft of disturbing health effects ranging from dizziness and agitation to vision loss and bloody urine to liver dysfunction and death." Futurism » // When Netflix feels like junk food, this is the brain meal. 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