I salute this project.

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...Microsoft co-founder turned investor and philanthropist, Paul Allen is bankrolling the project, joining forces with aviation designer, Burt Rutan, chief of Scaled Composites...

It's the ONLY nice thing I've said about anything Microsoft has done in a long time.

So, I want to thank Microsoft for giving Mr. Allen the cash to pull this off. Aside from that, Microsoft sucks...