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Letter: What's in a name?

Published 22 November 2017

From Martin Greenwood, Stirling, Western Australia

You seem coy about the “F” in Elon Musk's “BFR” to go to Mars (7 October, p 7). Surely it is a riff on Roald Dahl's well-known story of the BFG – the Big Friendly Giant.

Issue no. 3153 published 25 November 2017

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