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Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution (www.theguardian.com)

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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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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

On this episode of Gilligan's Island, the professor makes a satellite.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Out of bamboo and coconuts. And Gilligan has to power it with a stationary bicycle.

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Launched with a comical slingshot made from two palm trees roughly shaping a V form.