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Write Your Valentine On a Spacecraft

GingerSnaps writes "Looking for something more fun and less predictable than roses and chocolates this Valentine's Day? Write your love on the side of a satellite. This unusual approach to courting comes courtesy of students at MIT and Georgia Tech, as part of a larger initiative to pay for their research spacecraft, the Mars Gravity Biosatellite. For a tax-deductible donation anyone can post a picture or message of choice on the spacecraft. All donations help the students pay for the development and construction of their Earth-orbiting satellite, to be launched in 2010. The data gathered will be critical to preparing for human missions to Mars and beyond."

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  1. Re:At Least From the /. Contingency... by mrchaotica · · Score: 2, Informative

    &lt; == "<"

    HTML entities -- learn them, love them, use them.

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  2. Re:In Japan... by Edis+Krad · · Score: 2, Informative

    True. But men have to return the favor a month later on White Day, March 14th ;)

  3. IAMAMM by iamacat · · Score: 2, Informative

    And I assure you that a girl would like a dozen of long stem roses way more than a message on the side of a spacecraft

  4. Re:Poetic... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Unfortunately, so does the VD.