Posts by John Routledge

Fantastic

This all sounds pretty great, but I'm pretty doubtfull they'll be able to develop this in three years.

I like the idea of continually lapping the moon to avoid sitting in the lunar shade though. According to a quick back of an envelope calculation, it would only need to go a shade under 10 mph to do this. Tricky, but possible I should think. Perhaps easier than trying to insulate something in near absolute zero conditions for 14 days at least.

Technically

"Crucially, this will come after the first reading in the Commons, the main hurdle that bills currently have to face"

The first reading is where the title of the bill is read out in parliament - they don't actually debate anything until the second reading - so this will come before any hurdles at all.

Probably won't be able to see the landers

Resolution: 1 metre. Size of the Apollo Lander: four metres across. So theoretically possible, but the best you're going to get is a few fuzzy pixels of a slightly different colour to the rest of the surface. And since the images are in b/w, even harder to distinguish.

So we might get images of the landers, but they won't be good enough to be sure that's it's actually them. Shame really.

Anyway, nothing will satisfy the conspiracy nuts, they'll claim any images are faked anyway.

My guess

Plastic bag? I can definitely see an outline of something around the "formation".

Any idea whose logo it might be?

Expensive?

The DVD is £4 on ebay - can't see many takers for paying twice the price for a version they can only watch on their phone. Good luck with that.

It's the cold!

Rechargeables don't work at subzero temperatures. It still sounds like a hell of a waste though.

Just thought I'd wade in here...

and just generally agree with pretty much everyone - The Reg needs to either stick to what it's (relatively) good at, and report IT related news, or start learning the basics on impartiality. I don't think I've ever read a more opinionated series of articles on Politics since I (accidentaly mind you) read a copy of the Mail.

Buck up Reg, I expect better.

How?

Isn't the problem with wind energy the fact that when the wind stops blowing, the lights go out? And conventional fossil fuel power stations can't ramp themselves up to compensate sufficiently quickly enough, so have to be running at the level they would be without the wind power anyway? So wind effectively generates no useful electricity as it can't be stored.

Or have I been listening to the nay-sayers too much? Is there any way that, using current technology, any of these wind power installations can generate useful electricity?

Spotting a pattern here...

I'd quite like to see what the female readers of the Reg have to say about this.

What?

Oh.