NASA Builds Worlds Largest Paper Airplane

An anonymous reader writes "NASA has designed and built the world's biggest paper airplane. The 98-foot, $1.2 billion bird isn't a mere museum piece or just for show. It's code name the "Flying Squirrel" for some odd reason doesn't seem to fit as the engineering drawings suggest a more shuttle like heritage. Here is the original article."

But...

[GillBates0]

does it run Lunix?

Subscriber

[Skalizar]

Now I wish I was a subscriber so I could see these before the rest of the unwashed masses.

1st Post

[cybercobra]

Wow, I wonder how many people actually bothered to find this version of the page you can actually comment on...
In other news, Python 3000 was released today.

Nothing for you to see here. Please move along?

[bird603568]

NO I want to see the 98 foot long paper airplane. I want to see where the taxpayers money is going... O wait this is like slashdots 30th April fool article. Nevermind

not a lot

[datafr0g]

"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along." Shouldn't that be written in bold on the front page?

Surrender

[m50d]

OK, I give up. They're coming too fast. Just let me have my first post. Please? Heck, it's now april the *second* where I live.

Oh FFS

[Tony Hoyle]

Someone take the slashdot editors away and shoot them.

This ceased to be funny 12 hours ago. It's april 2nd now and they're still at it.

Just hang in there!

[reality-bytes]

Only another 5 hours to go before it becomes April 2nd by Slashdot time (unless they decide to change timezones as the ultimate April-fool) ;-)

Re:Oh FFS

[Lisandro]

"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."

For a few seconds there, i was in heaven.

oh, man

[roman_mir]

we are never gonna get laid, are we?

So, I Married an Axe Murderer

[Valiss]

"Man gives birth a baby. That's a fact."

Chill!

[Twisted Grind]

Let those of us who enjoy crude humor be and quit posting comments about the banality of April 1st if you don't like them! If you're sick and tired of it...STOP READING! Go outside! Get a job/start doing some actual work at your job! Meet people! Or hell, just read another website for 5 more hours if it offends you so much. I swear, some of you sound like someone just sh*t in your umbilical cord...

Re:Chill!

[TractorBarry]

> Go outside! Get a job/start doing some actual work at your job! Meet people

You heartless bastard...

Re:Chill!

[Twisted Grind]

Ok...I'll concede that that made me laugh harder than any of the posts I've seen today ^_^

CmdrTaco

[SoNiCfReAk]

Please stop it! April fools is over now, it is after 12PM.

Hey, Rocky!

[artifex2004]

Watch me pull a ./ article out of my hat!

Amazing

[dfjghsk]

This is such an incrediable engineering effort. It's quite amazing what NASA can accomplish when they aren't tied to the designs of yesterday (like the Shuttle).

The Shuttle has done nothing but hold NASA back. They should ditch the things in the ocean and spend more money on this new "Paper" technology. Just imagine what we could accomplish then!

Metric Conversion

[Thakandar2]

Unfortunaly, one side is much longer than the other due to the engineer's inability to convert to and from metric. This problem, experienced by many of the engineers' children as well, continues to plague even the best paper airplane engineers.

Ujk

[BigBadBus]

For CHRIST'S SAKE, WHY, every year, do we have this glut of April Fools Messages? Just about every single story on the main page is a hoax. Its like overkill for GOD'S SAKE.

GET A FRIGGIN' LIFE AND STOP POSTING THIS SHIT!

I submited this last week and was rejected

[bxbaser]

Mybe my links where wrong who knows (sigh).

How will they launch it?

[uncoveror]

If they use a rocket, it will be a short-lived fireball. If they use the X-4000 Launch Aparatus [uncoveror.com], it will be the world's largest paper wad. Maybe they should take it to the top of a hill, and just give it a push.

The problem is

[snuf23]

It's only capable of delivering payloads to LOW Earth orbit.
When is NASA going to give us a viable delivery mechanism!

Smells like the work of the British Library.

[TigerPlish]

Be on the lookout for a female, about five foot five, about 120 pounds, generous bust, sapphire blue eyes and long, flowing black hair, square geek glasses. Dresses primarily like a bag lady, long skirt, shabby blouse, shabby light tan overcoat. May be towing a big pilot's briefcase on a dolly.

Usually found in or around bookstores, the rarer, the better.

Answers to "Yomiko" or "The Paper."

Be advised, subject can use paper as weapons. I suggest you leave all your cash and business cards at home, papercu

HILARIOUS

[SnakeEater251]

I started laughing when I read the title... I guess it's just me... :-)

Action photo!

[deblau]

NASA and the Royal British Library's Division of Special Operations [animegalleries.net] have teamed up on this one. Here [slackersden.com] is a pic of two Spec Ops agents tracking down a would-be terrorist on the new airplane.