Scientists are working on a plan to shoot tardigrades into interstellar space on lasers. Plus, the James Webb Space Telescope is so-far going better than anyone had dared to imagine. And alpaca’s favorite new year snack: Christmas trees.

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• Scientists Want to Send Tardigrades to Distant Stars With Massive Lasers (Vice)
• Sending Life to the Stars (The UCSB Current)
• All hail the Ariane 5 rocket, which doubled the Webb telescope's lifetime (Ars Technica)
• Even NASA Seems Surprised by Its New Space Telescope (The Atlantic)
• Bad Astronomy | James Webb Space Telescope ready to begin testing components (Bad Astronomy, Syfy Wire)
• In a Truly Historic Milestone, JWST Has Been Successfully Deployed! Now What? (Science Alert)
• Louth alpaca farmer delighted at Christmas tree donations (RTÉ)
• The weird reason why alpacas and goats love Christmas trees (Suffolk Live)
• Arby's new sandwich is so spicy it comes with a free shake (CNN)
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• 05/20/2020 episode about Chuck E. Cheese's ghost kitchen & character lore (Kottke Ride Home)
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