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Un petit par pour l'homme, mais un grand pas pour l'humanité...
| quote: | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Soon after the space shuttle Columbia broke apart in the skies over Texas on Saturday, people offered to sell on the Internet what they said was crash debris.
The offers for debris, which NASA officials had warned the public not to touch because of the possibility of toxic contamination, appeared briefly on the popular Internet auction site eBay (EBAY: up $0.96 to $75.16, Research, Estimates) before they were taken down, a company spokesman said.
"My guess is between 6:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. Pacific time for the first item, and there were a handful of listings throughout the course of the day," eBay spokesman Kevin Purseglove told Reuters.
The postings were expected, he said, noting that similar postings went up on the Web site shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks.
"Whenever something like this happens, our customer service teams starts looking," Purseglove said. "Whenever an event has become the focus of a large degree of media attention, we have seen people try to list items associated with the event."
"Our experience has told us that listings like this are often pranks," he added. "Sometimes people are trying to draw attention to themselves or participate in a news story."
Thousands of pieces of the ill-fated spacecraft showered down on northeastern Texas after Columbia disintegrated just 16 minutes from touchdown at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The seven astronauts on board were killed.
Purseglove said eBay would cooperate with any federal or state law enforcement requests to investigate the postings.
Michael Shelby, U.S. Attorney for southern Texas, told reporters at Johnson Space Center in Houston that anyone who touched the shuttle debris could face a stiff penalty.
"It's a federal offense that could bring to 10 years in prison. And I will prosecute," he said.
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Certains ne perdent aps le sens du business et ont mis aux enchère columbia.
Il ne disent pas s'ils mettent en vente les casques, médailles ou testicules des astronautes...
Arf, vive l'économie de marché...
Après tt tant d'argent cramé en si peu de temps, c'est triste... tt n'est pas perdu il reste ebay...
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