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Esther Dyson To Train For Space Flight
DynaSoar writes "Esther Dyson, known to many as a founding and consistently guiding member of ICANN, and for working with the startups of Flickr, del.icio.us, Medscape and others, is now expanding her interests upwards. She recently announced that she will be heading to Moscow to train as backup astronaut for Charles Simonyi, who plans to fly aboard Soyuz TMA-14 next year. The US$3 million price tag won't be her first cash contribution towards personal space flight. She's already an investor in Space Adventures, the company that arranges the space tourist flights on Soyuz."
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In space, her urine would form Dyson Spheres.
...raised on a high-calorie diet in microgravity would expand uniformly about the bird's center of gravity.
So a large Arkansas-based poultry producer is looking into producing...
TYSON'S SPHERES!!!
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