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Kazakhstan's Spaceship Junkyard

Posted by Zonk on from the mos-eisley dept.

Richard W.M. Jones writes "What happens to the booster stages of rockets? They fall back to earth, and in most cases into the oceans. But not in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, where the first stages fall over populated farmland. The locals have become rich dealing in the titanium-rich scrap metal as this article and this remarkable photo essay show. So far the only casualties seem to have been a few dead cows."

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  1. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post!

    Anti-slash sucks!

  2. Funniest story on slashdot by empaler · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    for weeks. Really, it is.

  3. just wait by cryptoz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    until the United States adopts these practices. Or maybe they already have...look out, terrorists!

    whatever the case, the Cult of the Dead Cow are probably cheering over the wonderful news.

    But seriously, that's kinda freaky. I mean, yeah, I'd love to have spaceship parts in my backyard, but has anyone read The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton? Ouch...