You know the jokes about how SpaceX boss and former PayPal supremo Elon Musk is only a fluffy cat away from being a Bond villain? On the basis of this segment from a press conference about yesterday's Dragon spacecraft docking and the laser ranging glitch that caused a slight delay, I think he's buying into it (see 24:15 onwards):
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Compare the original:
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Incidentally, it says something about my musical tastes that I was the only person in the cinema to burst out laughing at the line about 'the Alan Parsons Project'. Nothing wrong with liking prog rock...
(alt: http://youtu.be/YjuvIlskUf4)
Compare the original:
(alt: http://youtu.be/nw3dWOssOhs)
Incidentally, it says something about my musical tastes that I was the only person in the cinema to burst out laughing at the line about 'the Alan Parsons Project'. Nothing wrong with liking prog rock...