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Article: How deep is your access?
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 7, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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It's often said that earth holds no more frontiers. Once
cartographers had mapped out Papua New Guinea, the Himalayas and
the wilder parts of Essex, the only way for explorers to go was
upwards into space, or inwards, inside themselves. Science
programmes that film in improbable places are thus taking on the
habits of the modern fly-on-the-wall documentary. They brag about
depth of penetration to some unphotographed zone as if it's a
measure of virility. How deep is your access? Yeah, well mine's
deeper.
In a fascinating Equinox (C4, Sun) about the race to facilitate
cheap space travel, a bunch of amateur scientists fired a rocket
from the American desert into the blue beyond. From the ...