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1.5 million people have signed up to storm Area 51. What could go wrong?

4 mins | Jul 22, 2019
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The US air force facility is rumoured to harbour extraterrestrial life - and people want to raid it. Adrienne Matei writing in the Guardian in July 2019 explains why mixing online hi-jinx with militarily guarded government property would be a disaster.

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