I see you are trying to write C++, would you like me to convert it to Python for you?

As a cyclist I would like a system for myself that could mark the minimum safe passing distance to my side.
If it also included a high powered offensive laser for intruders then that would be a bonus!

> with the Americans and the Russians both making their commercial quality systems available for free, is a third system really worth 250 billion euros?
Are you saying that the Americans would be happy to turn off their GPS and trust in using Russian or Euro GPS for military operations ?
Also Galileo is supposed to provide better coverage at Northern lats.

> Particularly since we no longer hobble GPS system accuracy
Put presumably it could be turned off at any time if the US wanted to block access ?
And especially in a world-of-Trump and -Putin do you think we Europeans would be happy relying on US/Russian sats ?

Note that the (near) flat line is only for fossil-fuel derived CO2: not all human produced CO2, and certainly not all Earth produced !!

Except, for example, Royal Prerogative: she can dissolve parliament, appoint prime minsters, override the courts (mercy), declare peace and war, sign treaties, she is Commander in Chief of the armed services, has to agree to sign laws...
For now she does what she is told to do, but does not the fact remain that the power still lies with the sovereign ?

Err... I thought the sovereign was sovereign in the UK (i.e. The Queen).

They are not actually all sitting in L2: they 'orbit' around the L2 point (eg halo or Lissajous).

And most recently ESA put Gaia in L2.

Seems a little unprofessional for the head of solar and planetary missions to be publicly spreading theories for which he has zero evidence, even if they are qualified ?

On another note, as a Software Engineer I know for certain that 99% of all failures are Hardware related ;-)

AFAIK the lander is Russian built: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
(Schiaparelli being the test/demonstrator version)

- list of all your WhatsApp contacts (usually imported from your phone contacts)
- "metadata", e.g. how often you text which contacts

Congratulations to all involved in this mission over the 20+ years: and: better to crash than fade away :-)

Yes. FWIW, IIRC, GAIA started as an acronym for the instrument technology to be used, but that was later replaced but the name kept and de-capitalised.

Sounds more like a stealth scout ship to me!

The comments I read seemed to have missed the point that the link was to illegally posted, pre-publication photos. Not just any old link. Just sayin, puts a different angle on the story, although a little less clickbaity!