Better Ideas from Japan: Space Age Origami

"Japanese Scientists, Origami Masters Hope to Launch Paper Airplane From Space"
FOXNews (March 27, 2008)

"Japanese scientists and origami masters hope to launch a paper airplane from space and learn from its trip back to Earth.

No kidding.

"At this point, the proposal faces just one challenge, but it's a potentially crippling one: There is no way to track the paper craft or predict when or where they may land.

"Critics say that makes the test pointless."

On the other hand,

" 'But what... is it good for?' -
IBM executive Robert Lloyd, speaking in 1968 microprocessor, the heart of today's computers."
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