Rumours are circulating that SpaceShipTwo is beyond the planning stages – Burt Rutan isn’t resting on his laurels, it would seem.

This is going to be popular…looks like the FCC has decided US broadband providers must pay the costs of any wiretap surveillance, plus associated expenses. I smell a weekend blogstorm a’brewing.

It’s hard to say for certain. They thought Voyager had the timing nailed, but now Cassini has sent back a result that reads 8 minutes longer. Astronomers theorise it may be due to some solar-magnetic anomaly, as they’re certain it’s not an instrument error.

The Pink Tentacle reports on Japanese press releases, concerning a Hitachi Maxell fuel cell made to a simple design and using aluminium and water to crank out about 10 watts, enough to power a laptop for four to five hours. A great potential use for all that scrap aluminium out there.

Why limit yourself to war on the planet’s surface? Think big like the Pentagon, and militarise space with ground-based anti-satellite lasers. After all, you wouldn’t want anyone else being able to take satellite images of the surface with the same degree of accuracy as yourself, would you?