In the zero-gravity void of interstellar space, the crafts might survive indefinitely, traveling the universe for all eternity.

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Ms Cheong, meanwhile, has issued a public apology, saying that the noise from the wedding - in a common space known as a void deck underneath government-built housing often used for celebrations by different ethnic groups - had caused her to lash out.

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Space is not just an empty void between point A and point B.

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The absence of Jonathan Woodgate, Ledley King and Michael Dawson left a huge void in the Tottenham defence and there was certainly plenty of space as another former Spur Fraizer Campbell swooped to meet Kieran Richardson's corner.

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Then, Google floated seven Nexi to the edge of space to see if the phones could cope with the void.

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"It might sound crass, but I do think that the new architecture of the '90s, which conjured huge amounts of wall space, created a need for easily accessible pictures to fill the void, " he says.

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Light particles passing through the void would be expected to lose a little more energy than those passing through space cluttered with matter - if dark energy is stretching the Universe apart at a faster and faster rate.

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In the distant future, he is a space traveller and she is his saintly muse, floating together through the void in a lovely bubble.

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