Old News: [washingtontimes.com] Washington, DC, Nov. 15 (UPI) — A European Space Agency rocket entered moon orbit Monday in a unique mission using a pioneering power plant. [...] The engine does not combust fuel; rather it splits atoms with electricity to get ions, accelerates them at high speed, and then ejects them, driving the spacecraft [...]
Tim Bray thinks that Iapetus’ median ridge shows that the moon is a Silly Putty egg. I have a different theory. [ed: Non-Brits, see Rainbow.]
One, two, three, four, five, six … as you can read, on Saturday evening the BBC showed Jerry Springer, The Opera in full, colourful colour. It was good. Possibly superb, but I am slow to use that epithet for media events. One statement that I can definitively make is that it will never get aired [...]
…the most fun I had at the weekend was in laminating three sheets of cardboard together. Really. I came over all Blue Peter. The aim is to create a prototype for the adaptor plate I’m fabricating to connect my old Nonfango 852 topbox, to the BMW. Since I lack the space, resources, or patience of [...]