If you are so sure, go ahead and tender, there's a lot of money up for grabs. Submit a tender document and see what happens... Or you could leave it to those who have some idea, who have been digitising video on a large scale for years.

Yes, I found my paternal Belgian line easily back to 1450 but the maternal British line runs out 200 years earlier.

I think you mean 10Wh

Don't invite hackers to connect to my LAN. If I do, check the colour of their hat at the front door.

Mercurys magnetic field deflects the solar wind inducing a magnetosphere, which deflects charged particles, much as our earth's field does.

Since Mercury has a magnetic field, it's a safer bet than Mars to inhabit. There are regions at the poles that are in shadow and probably have water ice. These may be close enough to the sun side to tap its solar energy.

I had to stop reading the article at that point as I couldn't take it seriously. Mind you this is Slashdot isn't it?

The plan is to make you prey.

Those discounted lithium batteries

Brain the size of a planet

It's nice to hear they've got "Uncertainty". Now wait for the "Fear" and "Doubt".

Promises by incumbent parties at election time always beg the question: Well why didn't you it already?

Good on them for not paying the ransom. People who do, just encourage the criminals.

Mod parent up!

Pioneering spirit is gone. The rich nations, (who can afford this kind of venture) contain comfortable complacent populations. Compare this with the risks that third world migrants take to reach us, many perishing inn transit.

What a wonderful 'bodge'. By emulating a floppy, it allowed us to boot and install a new OS from a single disc.