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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. /.ed already? by ChePibe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow... they can handle an assault from huge rockets upon their land, but they have no chance against a vicious /.ing...

  2. Uhh.. by Coolnat2004 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Kazaghawhatchimacallit?

  3. Redundant? by ChePibe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm one of the first to have posted saying this, and I'm marked as "Redundant"?

    That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.