A bustle in your hedgerow: A judge has ruled a trial can proceed to determine if Led Zepplin’s famous song, “Stairway to Heaven,” got its opening guitar solo from another rock band. Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe claims the opening notes of “Stairway” are taken from his song, “Taurus.”
Finally, the nation’s guitar store employees will know who to blame for all the pimply teens picking up guitars and trying to impress girlfriends by painfully plucking out the “Stairway” riff.
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Bugging the neighbors: Physicist Stephen Hawking is backing a plan to use earth-based lasers to power hundreds of tiny spacecraft to the Alpha Centauri star system. After a 20 years, the craft would report back on what they find.
We’re guessing the image they send back will be an Alpha Centauri fly-swatter. Then just static.
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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1970, Apollo 13 was crippled during its journey to the moon when a liquid oxygen tank burst. The crew, using duct tape and slide rules, overcame several obstacles to return to earth safely.
Mr. Hawking, we suggest equipping the mission with tiny rolls of duct tape.
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