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		| Hein 
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		| Sella 
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		| Nak 
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				|  Tue May 22, 12 11:40 am |   |  
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				| Very, very cool! |  | 
	
		
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		| Inept_Fun 
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				|  Tue May 22, 12 12:05 pm |   |  
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		| Sella 
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				|  Tue May 22, 12 12:19 pm |   |  
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				| I thought it was cool the ashes of Star Trek's iconic engineer Scotty (James Doohan) were launched into space this morning aboard the SpaceX Dragon. |  | 
	
		
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		| Reaper356 
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				|  Tue May 22, 12 2:30 pm |   |  
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				| Nice work Flo! See what happens when you don't kiteboard!
 j/k j/k, I know you've had a session or two!
 Congrats!
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		| Blazeheliski 
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				|  Tue May 22, 12 2:45 pm |   |  
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				| Elon Musk - cofounder of Paypal(we all know how much we use paypal); founder of SpaceX (may be the person to get regular people into space); founder of Tesla Motors (has the most promising electric cars on the market); and founder of Solar City ( largest provider of solar power systems in the U.S.).  I would guess that he does not kiteboard............... |  | 
	
		
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		| pkh 
  Since 27 Feb 2005
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				|  Tue May 22, 12 7:27 pm |   |  
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				| Does Spike work for SpaceX? That's awesome! |  | 
	
		
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		| blowhard 
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		| pjc 
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				|  Fri May 25, 12 9:48 am |   |  
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				|  	  | pkh wrote: |  	  | Does Spike work for SpaceX? That's awesome! | 
 
 Seriously - if that's where Spike works he needs to come back here and fill us in - SpaceX is the coolest thing going down right now, bar none.
 
 After figuring out how to kite the ditch, launching a giant rocket into orbit would be tiddlywinks....
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		| Weaz 
  Since 23 May 2012
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				|  Fri May 25, 12 10:03 am |   |  
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				|  	  | Blazeheliski wrote: |  	  | Elon Musk - cofounder of Paypal(we all know how much we use paypal); founder of SpaceX (may be the person to get regular people into space); founder of Tesla Motors (has the most promising electric cars on the market); and founder of Solar City ( largest provider of solar power systems in the U.S.).  I would guess that he does not kiteboard............... | 
 
 Well Sir Richard Branson is an avid kiteboarder.. and he's into everything from music, airlines, submarines, space craft...
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		| Hein 
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		| Spike 
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				|  Fri May 25, 12 5:16 pm |   |  
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				| Thanks guys! It was quite a celebration today at 7am, lots of champagne!   
 As for filling you in you'll just have to come and see it for yourself; if you're in "town" and have some time, I can show you around our factory
   
 
 
		
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		| Gman 
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		| pjc 
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				|  Sat May 26, 12 11:10 am |   |  
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 You'll be talking about that shizzle with your grandkids spike - enjoy it. Probably the coolest engineering project in the world right now, IMHO.
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		| pkh 
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				|  Sat May 26, 12 6:46 pm |   |  
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				| Spike - you sir are the man!   
 High-five Mr Musk for us!
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		| Spike 
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