Monday, January 29
Daily News Stuff 29 January 2024
Jeepers Edition
Jeepers Edition
Top Story
- Good news, everyone: Japan's Moon lander is working. (The Guardian)
It landed more or less safely, but with the solar panels facing the wrong way, so it only had battery power. (Since there's no atmosphere on the Moon, solar cells that aren't in direct sunlight produce no power at all.)
Mission control shut it down, in the hope that after a few days the angle of the Sun would shift enough to reach the solar panels.
It did.
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- And now that it's joined the Space Age Japan won't be using floppy disks anymore. (Tom's Hardware)
Coincidentally the first 8" floppy drives from IBM were introduced right about the time of Apollo 15.
- The rooftop solar industry is facing collapse. (Time)
Not because solar panels themselves don't work, but because the industry employs sales tactics that would make a used car remora blush.
- Netflix is different now - and there's no going back. (The Verge)
It still sucks - more than ever, in fact - but now it's more expensive.
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Yep, that's about it.
- California wants to mandate speed limiters in cars. (Car and Driver)
Because of course it does.
- Hundreds of thousands of EU citizens have been incorrectly fined for driving in London's new clean air zone. (The Guardian)
Fines can exceed 2000 pounds a day ($3.50), and if you fine people who weren't even there as if they were driving a 1950s double-decker omnibus, it adds up.
Disclaimer: Along the Queen's great highway
I drive my merry load
At twenty miles per hour
In the middle of the road
We like to drive in convoys
We're most gregarious
The big six-wheeler, scarlet-painted,
London Transport, diesel-engined,
Ninety-seven horsepower omnibus.
I drive my merry load
At twenty miles per hour
In the middle of the road
We like to drive in convoys
We're most gregarious
The big six-wheeler, scarlet-painted,
London Transport, diesel-engined,
Ninety-seven horsepower omnibus.
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"Two probes detached successfully, Jaxa said -- one with a transmitter and another designed to trundle around the lunar surface beaming images to Earth. This shape-shifting mini-rover, slightly bigger than a tennis ball, was co-developed by the firm behind the Transformer toys."
I hope it wasn't a Decepticon.
I hope it wasn't a Decepticon.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, January 30 2024 12:28 AM (BMUHC)
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Any more fares?
Posted by: Timothy Fox at Tuesday, January 30 2024 07:52 AM (7lcFP)
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