Japan planning to use fishing nets to clear space junk.

[Smivs]

Title is self-explanatory. The (short) article is here.

[TGHC]

Hope they get the mesh size right!

[DaddyHoggy]

<Daily_Mail>But think of the Tuna!</Daily_mail>

[Smivs]

You get Tuna in space?

[Cody]

The Salmon of Doubt

[DaddyHoggy]

The Salmon of Doubt

We were thinking the same thing then! (I could have put Salmon - but Tuna sounded more like Children...)

Nice one EV (and, from a different thread, congrats on **ELITE**)

[Cody]

It's a shame that he never finished the book... it's still a good read though.

Thanks re the Elite thing... as I said, deeply satisfying.
I wonder if Oolite should have an arrival report page, displayed at one's first docking after getting the big 6400.
Something special to greet the newly Elite commander.

[Smivs]

Nice idea, and indeed it could be extended for all the 'landmark' scores. That would be nice for newbies as they would come along fairly frequently.

[Cody]

Yeah... good thinking Smivs.

[DaddyHoggy]

This discussion was had way-back-when, I think, after a pacey discussion it was decreed that it was difficult to introduce in a way that didn't make it feel "gamey" (this may have been related to another similar discussion about medals and arbitrary other titles and ranks)

[Cody]

Stuff medals and other ranks… I vaguely remember that discussion, now you mention it.
I was thinking just a simple arrival report from whoever it is that ranks pilots (I can never rmember their name), nothing fancy… but there you go.

[Commander McLane]

I was thinking just a simple arrival report from whoever it is that ranks pilots (I can never rmember their name)

The—not very creatively named— Elite Federation.