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purplerabbits ([personal profile] purplerabbits) wrote2004-09-07 10:35 am
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The Sun Machine is Coming Down

This post brought to you by the need to use an appropriate title for this news story...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3631864.stm

Oh, and "Hollywood stunt pilots are waiting to snatch the parachute in mid-air to prevent the capsule hitting the ground." How cool is that?

Update: Bum.
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[identity profile] janetmiles.livejournal.com 2004-09-07 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
That is very, very damn cool. Thanks so much for finding and posting the link!

[identity profile] zbyszek.livejournal.com 2004-09-07 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
$264m for 10-20 µg. So that's...some expensive bloody stuff! No pressure on these pilots, then.

[identity profile] lizw.livejournal.com 2004-09-07 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, very cool indeed!

[identity profile] biog.livejournal.com 2004-09-08 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
It would appear there has been a conclusion to this news story, as posted here http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040908/325/f2682.html
is the glasshalf-empty?
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