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If you’ve got a lust for space travel, a desire to go where only a couple of dozen people have gone before, and $150 million to spare, Space Adventures needs you.

The space tourism company—it’s the one that organizes the ISS trips via the Russian Soyuz—has mapped a potential tour around the moon that could lift off within five years.

The company has already secured a nine-digit commitment from one customer for a potential lunar sightseeing tour. And the logistics are already in place as well: aboard a three-seat Russian Soyuz spacecraft (the third seat is for a Russian mission commander), the tourists would launch into orbit where they would rendezvous with a separately-launched unmanned rocket, which would jet them the rest of the way to the moon.

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And he said: “LET THERE BE CHAIRS!” And then there were chairs. Many, many, chairs

This is the iPhone4 case with a slide-out keyboard that provides more tactile typing than the iPhone4’s touchscreen. The physical keyboard pairs with the iPhone4 in seconds via Bluetooth and prevents the virtual keypad from appearing, doubling the size of the viewable screen.

The landscape oriented QWERTY keyboard has a full row of numeric keys, arrow keys, and buttons that control the iPhone4’s Spotlight and home screen functions. The hard plastic case has a streamlined design that ensures it will remain unobtrusive in a pocket or in a hand and it leaves the camera lens, volume and power buttons, and access ports uncovered for instant accessibility.

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I wish I enjoyed anything half as much as this dog enjoys popsicles.

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3D glasses may not be the most obvious warfare tool. But that’s exactly what it took for the Allies of WWII to outwit Hitler.

A BBC documentary reveals how they used three-dimensional photos to stop Nazi weapons of mass destruction before they could bomb Britain. Dubbed Operation Crossbow, the mission entailed Spitfire pilots photographing battlefield Europe. The photos were then sent to the Royal Air Force (RAF) Medmenham in Buckinghamshire to make sense of the hidden clues. Hitler was heavily investing in his new V weapons in the hope they could win him the war. Fortunately, Medmenham had a secret weapon of its own, a simple stereoscope which brought to life a detailed picture of the enemy landscape based on the tens of million photos taken by pilots from Britain’s RAF Photographic Reconnaissance unit, generating 36 million prints.

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