Making use of specially treated paper that can withstand temperatures of up to 250C, Japanese scientists are building origami space craft that they hope will be able to survive reentry into the earth’s atmosphere. The theory that the Japanese scientists are testing is that paper aircraft, being lighter than space shuttles, will generate less heat due to friction; tell me that there is a theory more worth of testing in space at a cost of billions of dollars than that. The technology may be used for unmanned spacecraft in the future, assuming that the theory checks out.

If they reach the earth at all, they are going to take months to get here and they have a better than average chance of landing where no one will ever find them. On the off chance that one does hit a populated area, they are thinking of including a note with a contact number.

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