Anyway that is interesting to look back in the mirror. I've found such test balloon articles from mainstream sources, after 2009 SPAWAR revival, 2005 (something happened in that period... Seen Tsinghua replication of NASA GRC, a few other papers... Dunno what raised such hope).
I understand why old apes are so careful an afraid the devil gets back in its box, again. youg apes, or de-cryogenizated apes like me, should be careful. 2013/3/5 Mark Gibbs <mgi...@gibbs.com> > Bugger. Missed that. I assumed that they'd link from a current article [1] > to a current article, not to history and now I find that that original > article, which was linked to a current article wasn't any such thing ... it > was also from 2005! I am now very suspicious of New Scientist but welcome > to the new world of publishing where everything old is new again ...