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Submission + - 'Flying saucers' to go on sale soon (bbc.co.uk)

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gihan_ripper

on Thursday August 30, 2007 @07:47PM

gihan_ripper writes: "Perhaps the ultimate nerd acquisition, the flying car, is to go on sale in a few months. Speaking to the BBC, the inventor Dr Paul Moller described his creation, dubbed the Flying Saucer, as a VTOL aircraft designed to hover at 10ft above the ground. The flying saucer has eight engines and is expected to sell for $90,000. Dr Moller expects to produce a successor within six years, a "Skycar" capable of a climb rate of 6000 ft/min and airspeed of 400mph."

Submission + - 3-tonne meteorite stolen in Russia

Submitted by morpheus83 on Monday August 13, 2007 @08:59AM

morpheus83 writes: Russian news agency Interfax is reporting that thieves have stolen a three-tonne meteorite from the yard of the Tunguska Space Event foundation, whose director said it was the part of meteor that caused a massive explosion in Siberia in 1908. The massive three tonne rock was bought to Krasnoyarsk after an 2004 expedition to the site of the so-called Tunguska event- a mysterious mid air explosion over Siberia in 1908 was 1,000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. The foundation's director Yury Lavbin claimed to have discovered the wreckage of an alien spacecraft during the expedition.

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