Nice article here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41972290

Thought you star gazers may like the reviews...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0013D8VDQ

For the US reviews, swap .co.uk for .com - most of the reviews are on the US site, but the tagging here directs you to the UK site. There's a few reviews on the UK one though.

Though this was very cool.

QuoteNASA's announced that Voyager 1's already-amazingly-long mission will probably be extended for an extra two or three years, thanks to a successful attempt to use thrusters that haven't fired up since the year 1980.

As NASA announced last Friday, Voyager 1's been using its "attitude control thrusters" (ACMs) for decades, to nudge the probe so that its antenna points at Earth and it can stay in touch.

Full story at The Register : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/04/voyager_1_mission_extension_thanks_assmbler_code_and_thrusters_unused_since_1980/

This shows that the big players in aiation are taking this seriously:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42152484

The Beeb put this nice little article up the other day, I was unaware of this program:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41945654

Thought I would start a thread on this, we are all being told that Self-Driving Vehicles are going to be the future, I'm not exactly for it or against it but it interests me and I would like to keep an eye on the it's progress.

There have been some accidents already, most of them seem to be down to the humans driving into the self-driving vehicles rather than the self-driving vehicles crashing of their own accord.

First signs seem to be that they are fine at driving until something out of the ordinary happens then they struggle to get out of trouble.

Of course this can be improved but as things stand now I think they still have a way to go.