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Day: 26 May 2004

  • NASA space blimp

    Blimps… In Space

    Now here's a funky idea - sub-orbital spaceflight in enormous helium balloons, up to a two-mile wide sub-space station (a permanant facility at the very boundries of our atmosphere). This could be used to carry spaceship components for assembly in orbit, and then launched using ion drives at a fraction of the price of rocket …

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  • My Final Exam… Like… Ever

    [this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]

    I feel kind of odd. And no, I'm not just referring to my (still kind-of burny) Lariam headache:

    I've just had my final exam. And I mean ever.

    I know I'm …

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  • Lariam Dream The First

    I'd been warned that this stuff could give you weird dreams. Last night I dreamt entirely in anime. Which is pretty impressive, I thought. I was a character in a Studio Ghibli-esque anime flick (it was dubbed, so I was moving my mouth in Japanese and somebody else's voice came out in English - the …

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