Aperture Library to Adobe Lightroom?

Hello,
Does anyone know of a way, or have any ideas, of how to share my Aperture library with Adobe Lightroom? I like both programs for different reasons and was curious if there was a way to at the very least export my Aperture Library in a way that I can import it in Lightroom? I eventually want to move both of these to an external hard drive as well..
Thanks!

Well, I just tried this... with one file. What I discovered, makes sense. The original file is not 'syched' because the original is not modified with non-destructive editing. All of the "edits" to the original files seem to reside within the programs, and not with the files. I wouldn't know where to look for this edit data in Lightroom, but I'm pretty sure that in Aperture the edit instructions being stored in the Aperture Library, even if the file is refrenced. This would be an interesting piece of code for someone to work on..... i.e. make a change in Aperture, and Lightroom reads that change from the Aperture library, and vice a versa.
Not sure that anyone would really want to do this on a long term basis as I sincerely doubt that there is something that on program can do that the other can't. (Except that Lightroom does not make books or have a Lighttable). If for instance you created a bunch of great edits in Lightroom and wanted to used those edits in an Aperture book, you would, at this time, have to export the edited versions and import them into Aperture - at least that seems to me to be the current requirements.
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