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Designer Paco Rabanne had predicted that the Russian Mir station would fall on France during the eclipse. Revelers held a "survivor's party" outside his headquarters. French ornithologists reported panic-stricken reactions of birds, particularly sea gulls, who clamorously flew out to sea, returning once daylight resumed...
...simultaneously snare a meal and a fashion statement. Alexander McQueen at Givenchy suggested that not only supermodels but also the human race may be extinct next century, exhibiting his clothes on fiber-glass mannequins that briefly popped up from the floorboards. And Paco Rabanne illustrated his prediction that the Mir space station will kill thousands when it crash-lands in Paris in August by showing a metallic satellite dress, center. For Rabanne, the end has already arrived. After 33 years, he presented his final couture collection...
...would turn the Mir space station into a prison in which we would place criminals who are convicted of crimes against humanity. Their sentence is not only isolation in space, but they would be forced to look down on earth to see how interdependent humans are on each other." --William Shatner, actor, Star Trek...
...probably would not do anything with the Mir. It does not fit the mission profile for tourists in space. Our mission plan is to provide the tourist with an artificial-gravity environment by spinning the facility. If you do that on the Mir, it falls apart. --Gregory Bennett, V.P., Bigelow Aerospace, a firm developing space cruises and hotels...
...Mir has far exceeded expectations in 13 years. It should be let go to rest peacefully. More efforts should be devoted to international space stations...The thing is bound to wear out, and that could be catastrophic if it was manned." --Pete Conrad, astronaut and CEO of Universal Space Lines, a start-up space airline