Lasers belong on sharks

Did they think to ask first?

But then, why should they bother? Yahoo is a large American company, and they should get their way no matter what, right? I'm sure some marketroid's head exploded when he found out that the Mexicans said "no."

Yahoo Inc. has abandoned its plan to beam a digital time capsule into space by laser from an ancient pyramid after Mexican authorities refused to allow it.

Mexican officials feared the project could damage the nearly 2,000-year-old Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacán, about 40 kilometres northeast of Mexico City.

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