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Not quite a Coriolis yet, but...

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...we're getting there.
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I think this lot may be ahead of the game, though.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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They both plan for the 2014/2015 timeframe. Close enough :)
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It's real progress though, ain't it... the sort of stuff we all hoped to see happening thirty years ago.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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Yep. Reaffirms my expectation that flight into space will be something that I can still experience without finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow first. Just give it a few decades.
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Whatever happened to Virgin offering high orbit flights around the world or whatever it was they were going to do? I thought trips to moon would be only a few years behind that! ;)

I guess Space exploration is slow and expensive business at the moment. Oh well, maybe when I'm 80, I'll be able to look back and see Earth from an orbiting Coriolis.
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sad thing is, i'm gonna be dead before things are really underway (say, 50 years on).
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maik wrote:
More on this story is now on the BBC Sci-Tech news website.
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Gimi wrote:
drew wrote:
£4,500 though! :shock: <Faints>
Cheers,
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Maybe you could start a Kickstarter Campaign to found your £4500 pledge. 8)
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Well, IIRC the current theory is that the first person who will live to 1,000 years is already amongst us ...
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Well, IIRC the current theory is that the first person who will live to 1,000 years is already amongst us ...
Ooh ooh, pick me! Pick me! As long as they've invented an anti-gravity Zimmer-frame, I'll be ok.
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NigelJK wrote:
Well, IIRC the current theory is that the first person who will live to 1,000 years is already amongst us ...
I won't live to be 1000 years old, but I feel that way some times :cry:
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Speak for yourself - I plan to live to be 1000.

So far, so good ;)
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Only 962 years left. ;)
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So far I was only aiming for 120, but ok, why not 1000 ;-)
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I knew I wasn't completely losing my mind! I don't want to die a Space virgin! :shock:
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