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A Silicon Valley startup has announced that it is flight testing new NASA-funded robot moon lander technology aboard a rented airship with the aid of an iPhone app intended to exploit social networking. Unsurprisingly perhaps, the company's CTO is a search engine executive. Using an iPhone app to social-network the airship …

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  1. Code Monkey
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    Location

    Just what the fanbois would want. More location-based fun and games.

  2. Anonymous Coward
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    iFail

    It all sounded so reasonable... and then they lost all credibility with the iPhone app drivel.

  3. Ryan 7
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    What's with the rampant bold-ing on the first paragraph?

    It looks bloody stupid!

  4. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    the rocket may be on its's way

    I don't think the current Falcon 9 has the grunt to get a big enough lander to lunar orbit but it's successor the Falcon 9 Heavy should be.

    Now if they are willing to take the gamble and be on board for the first launch they would probably save themselves *quite* a bit of cash. Elon Musk has said they have no primary payload at the moment...............

  5. TeeCee Gold badge
    FAIL

    "This picture was taken with an iPhone also."

    You don't say. Blurry, rotten depth-of field, lopsided (presumably due to some "what you see is not quite what you get" effect), colour balance all over the shop and a pointilliste effect throughout.

    I thought that the current crop of iPhone cams were *supposed* to be capable of taking an acceptable picture? That makes a 35mm placcy-lensed disposable look like a bloody Hasselblad.

    Just sometimes these shiny-toy-obsessed dweeb shops should admit the limitations of shiny-toy tech and use the right tool for the job.

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