This will be an update of a first-person shooter game with a plot that revolves around battling mutant humans attacking from outer space - very similar to the aliens in the Halo series.

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And when the solar wind is stronger, it is better at shielding the earth from high-energy charged particles from outer space known as cosmic rays.

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Mr Heatherwick's future projects include the world's first all-glass bridge, and a public square in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which will take the dramatic and humorous appearance of a gigantic, electric-blue carpet landing, as it were, from outer space.

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