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Dearest Friends, Fellow Explorers, and In 1984, I was a nervous 16-year-old walking into American Science Center on Northwest Highway in Chicago for my very first job. I’ll never forget one of my earliest tasks—cleaning the telescope showcase. Simple enough, until the top shelf gave way and two $500 scopes came crashing down. I caught one. The other landed squarely on my foot. I looked up to see my new boss staring at me in shock. I was sure I’d be fired on the spot.   …

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Okay, so I'm on my usual warehouse safari, you know, trying not to trip over that one rogue pallet that's been there since '98, and I swear I saw this thing inching up the wall. This olive-green, three-legged critter looks like it escaped from a low-budget sci-fi flick, all serious angles and twisty bits. Three legs for wall-crawling stability, obviously! Four would just be cumbersome when you're making your stealthy ascent to the ceiling. Maybe it's plotting something. Or maybe it just really l …

Okay, so we found this thing buried in a corner and swore it was an old-school Easy-Bake Oven. I mean, it has buttons, a door, and a mysterious glow of potential snackery. Naturally, we tried to bake brownies in it—bad idea. They came out sterile, slightly radioactive, and probably FDA-prohibited. Clearly, this isn't a toy... or a kitchen appliance. So what is it? Got a guess? Hit us up at share@sciplus.com—we love a good mystery, and we love it even more when someone else solves it …

Well, look what the forklift couldn't drag in! Found this absolute unit chilling on the lower dock. We tried to coax it to move, even offered it snacks (warehouse snacks, naturally - you know, stray packing peanuts and the occasional rogue bolt), but no dice. So here it sits, a monument to inertia, silently judging our lack of heavy-lifting prowess. Any guesses what this stubborn piece of machinery is? Send your brilliant deductions to share@sciplus.com – and don't even think about Googlin …