Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution::The environmentally friendly LignoSat probe – set to orbit this summer – has been created to combat harmful aluminium particles

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    9 months ago

    The idea of an Asian country launching a wooden satellite sounds like a racist Simpsons joke from the 1990s. What a time to be alive.

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      9 months ago

      Reading the title I was like man the Onion is getting a little edgy until I read the source. Truth is stranger than fiction.