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Virgin Sues a Blogger for an Ad Parody

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Why? It's kind of funny, and the US Airways crash into the Hudson turned out to be a good news story. And why would I risk also getting sued by running the parody? Solidarity. Also, so many people have posted it now. Besides, parodies are allowed. Doesn't Virgin know about the Larry Flynt case?

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Virgin Sues Blogger Over Fake Ad, Gives Fake Ad Massive Exposure

Virgin is always making those cheeky ads for itself, right? But when a blogger does it in obvious parody style, Virgin sues them. Scrubs. . .

Read more at: Gawker

Science is Cool: Virgin in Space!

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This is the sort of story you'd expect to find if you woke up one day and found you'd gone Back to the Future like Marty McFly. This is really feasible? So we've got clones, devices the size of a small book that can hold the collected published works of man, and Star Trek-like communicators. One question: where are our flying cars?

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Book a space now on out of this world tourist flight

This is the first craft that is set to make regular tourist flights into space.

The Virgin Galactic spacecraft, which was being unveiled in New York today, is already under construction. Test flights are expected to begin in June, with commercial flights starting 12 months later. . .

Read more at: This is London