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Giant
Red Erection Wilts in Big Apple Sun

"What
was unsettling was that the fluid just kept coming," Stuart Claxton
of the Guinness Book of World Records told the Daily News.

A
25-foot, 17-ton ice pop made of the supposed "best stuff on Earth" melted
in the New York sun yesterday – turning Union Square into a river of
Kiwi-Strawberry Snapple.

Bicyclists wiped out in the stream of goo. Pedestrians slipped. Traffic
was, well, frozen.

Snapple officials had hoped to get in the Guinness Book of World Records
and promote their new line of ice treats.

Instead, New Yorkers got a first-of-its-kind, first-day-of-summer mess.

"It was a big boo-boo," said Kizzy Vazquez, 28, of Manhattan,
as she watched the mammoth pink pop ooze while someone with a sick
sense
of humor blasted "Cruel Summer" over a sound system. "They
should have had that [up] before the sun came out."

from the
Daily News

PASADENA, California — The Cosmos solar sail is missing
shortly after its launch from a Russian nuclear submarine.

The $4 million Cosmos 1 spacecraft blasted off atop a converted Russian
missile at approximately 12:46 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, but ground
tracking stations failed to pick up its signal after an initial burst of
data, according to mission controllers.

The U.S. Strategic Command, which monitors launches, also could not detect the
spacecraft at its expected position in orbit.

"The news is not good," said Cosmos 1 project operations manager Jim
Cantrell. "On
the other hand, we do not have direct evidence of a failure" It’s worrisome
and it’s not what we hoped to have happen."

One wonders exactly why they decided to launch the thing
from a Russian missle submarine. It was probably on special…

from Wired News