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This was something special.
This doesn't look real.
It was playing Bowie's 'Space Oddity' on the way up.
Watch the livestream here at 18:30 GMT.
We should really view the apocalypse not as the end of the world, but merely the end of a world
Survivors of comet impact may envy the dead after finding themselves on a transformed and unrecognisable sphere
A solar flare may not kill us but there would be no electricity, heating, air conditioning, GPS or internet, plus food and medicines would go bad
The video was created using state-of-the-art 3D modelling software.