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Japanese Guy To Throw Boomerangs. In Space.

1/25/2008 at 9:45 AM
Tags: Space Travel, Space Tourism, Culture (all tags)

We always thought boomerangs were kind of the province of the Australians, but the headlines are telling us otherwise this week. It seems that a Japanese astronaut who's heading up to the International Space Station in March has taken on this bit of Aussie culture for himself.

Takao Doi, the 53-year-old astronaut, has decided he's going to test out whether or not a boomerang can fly back to you in zero gravity. Two problems: everybody thinks it won't work, and he's taking a paper boomerang. Sounds a bit like grabbing a paper airplane and trying to use it to fly around the world.

We're gunning for the boomerang idea to be dropped and perhaps when the first Australian Aboriginal heads into space, they can take a real boomerang and try it out. Or we could wait until our friend Richard Branson builds a resort up there and all the tourists can start throwing boomerangs around for fun.

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