The Week In Numbers: Year We Go To Mars, Price Of A Love Potion And More

Monday, April 29, 2013 - 16:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Mars colony Mars One 2023: the year Mars One wants to send two men and two women on a one-way trip to the red planet (apply now!) $185: the cost of the world's first braille smartphone 0.61 kilos: the amount of cocaine the average person can fit in his or her, uh, body 15: the number of birthdays a child born on Kepler-62e would have every five Earth years $60: the cost of one bottle of nasal spray containing oxytocin, a hormone that might make you fall in love if you inhale it before a date 6.5 tons: the weight of all the space junk currently orbiting Earth (bring in the space harpoon!) 80,000: the number of deaths from drug and alcohol overdose in the U.S. in 2010 10: the number of environmental holidays that are cooler than Earth Day 22: the number of people who have died from the new H7N9 avian bird flu $75 million: the profit...

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