Story of the day

Two stories that have really struck a chord with me today cover the space travela nd computer games.

The first one is about the ESA wanting to partner with NASA to send a ship to Europa, the ice covered moon of Jupiter, this is to follow on from the success of Cassini-Huygens at Saturn.

Professor Davis Southwood from the European Space Agency (Esa) commed that "Europe could do Europa on its own", but that a cooperative venture was extremely attractive."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4347571.stm

The gaming story is about the problems that are likely to face game manufacturers of computer games for next gen consoles like the X-Box 2 and the PS3.

The thing that interested me most was the immense scale of game production, apparently next generation games will cost between $10-25m to make, with teams averaging 80 staff in size taking two years to complete a title.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4349117.stm