Happy New Year

Well ladies and gents, we’re taking a (not so) well deserved vacation ! Well, we’ve actually started it a few days ago, but we’ve been too full of pork and red wine to let you know – sorry about that ! But hey, what matters is that hopefully, all of us are healthy and happy, […]

Mihai Andrei

December 29, 2010 @ 2:02 pm

Wishing you love, peace, and happiness,

ZME Science.

P.S. We kinda stole the pic from NASA, sorry about that, but the designer guy is too drunk. Hope they can forgive us

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