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Charles Simonyi hoping for frequent flyer discount.

Frederic Tapissier and Serge Brunier traversed the globe to capture 1200 stunning images of the Milky Way to help create the online based European Gigagalaxy Zoom project - an 800 million pixel panorama.

In space, no-one can hear you curse.

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Site could manufacture spacecraft for Mars and beyond.

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