Serenity insanity

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One of our most-viewed photo galleries of the year focused on a larger-than-life Lego spaceship. CNET blogger Christopher MacManus followed Adrian Drake -- a mechanical engineer who designs projects for the International Space Station -- and his creation of a 70,000-piece replica of the Serenity spaceship from the sci-fi TV show "Firefly."

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