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You got to Mars for how much?

25/9/2014

Science fiction meets science fact: Apparently the Indian Mangalyaan orbiter, which just reached Mars, cost $74 million to build - that's less than the production costs of the movie Gravity.

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Descended from a motley crew of smugglers and witches, Christian was born a chime-child with a caul and grew up in a haunted medieval house by the harbourside in the Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough.

According to folklore a caul-shrouded chime-child can't drown at sea but can see and talk to faerie folk and also has protection against spells cast by malevolent sorcerers. And yes, he was once commissioned to go on a werewolf hunt on the night of a full moon by a newspaper. Spoiler alert: he didn't find one. (Or it didn't find him.)

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