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"The idea, basically," he said, winding up, "is to get at, loosely, the idea of huge space stuff, that space is curved and the planets' orbits are curved.
What made it worse is that many of the basements functioned more as bedrooms and offices than as the traditional cellar space stuffed with bicycles and power tools.
He invited me to visit his lab, a cramped space stuffed with several hundred birds residing in souped-up climate-controlled refrigerators.
Yet every day about 100 tons of space stuff comes calling on us, unannounced and mostly undetected, a global fall of extraterrestrial dust grains.
They held a team meeting inside a van, squeezing inside the cluttered space stuffed with helmets, handlebars, drink packets and luggage.
"An exquisite repository is now going to be turned into a populist hangout, and have its former stack space stuffed with more and more and more and more miles of computer cable," he said in prepared remarks.
Donald K. Yeomans, who manages the jet propulsion lab's Near-Earth Object Program, said the Earth's atmosphere is continually streaked by space stuff, ranging from the basketball-size (several a day) to the Volkswagen-size (twice a year).
Seaver/McLellan Antiques in Dublin has 6,000 square feet of space stuffed with antiques and antiquities, which, on my visit, included a two-handled pot from ancient Greece and an English Regency sofa table.
Forbes: Why the space stuff?
