Ryanair announced in 2004 that it would introduce gambling through an in-flight entertainment system, though this too has yet to come to fruition.

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This, though, does not affect the system's optical properties and it can, indeed, see small, faint objects that are near large, bright ones.

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We like this, though it's still early days, the system works surprisingly well.

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