Alfie_in_Tokyo said...

Alfie_in_Tokyo at 11:42 PM JST - 21st May

the satellites are limited to spotting objects as small as 1 meter at maximum

You mean only slightly better than google earth's old pix? C'mon. They could probably pick out a middle finger ok

Quite so weedkilla: back in the late 1980s I saw some pictures taken using a Russian…

Posted in Japan enacts 1st law allowing for military space use at 11:42 PM JST - 21st May
Alfie_in_Tokyo at 11:31 PM JST - 21st May

I read this story first on the UK's Guardian newspaper website, where it quotes the US Ambassador as follows:

*"Our capabilities have increased dramatically because we are spending more on defence than we were 10 years ago," Schieffer said this week.

"That helps Japan. I don't think it is unfair…

Posted in Japan enacts 1st law allowing for military space use at 11:31 PM JST - 21st May
Alfie_in_Tokyo at 12:33 PM JST - 13th May

capone: and this... "no warning and no help to it's people." vs warning, and help.

Posted in Typhoon moves northward off eastern Japan at 12:33 PM JST - 13th May
Alfie_in_Tokyo at 11:36 PM JST - 8th May

Part of the reason the long-wave tremors go on for so long here in Tokyo sometimes, longer than in other parts of Japan, is because of the nature of the Kanto Plain: large area of softer material sitting in a dip in the bedrock. The shock waves move easily through…

Posted in Early warning system fails again as M6.7 quake hits Tokyo, Ibaraki, Saitama and Chiba at 11:36 PM JST - 8th May
Alfie_in_Tokyo at 11:27 AM JST - 8th May

:-)

Posted in Early warning system fails again as M6.7 quake hits Tokyo, Ibaraki, Saitama and Chiba at 11:27 AM JST - 8th May
Alfie_in_Tokyo at 11:04 AM JST - 8th May

Is it just me being paranoid, or have they been getting more frequent recently?

Posted in Early warning system fails again as M6.7 quake hits Tokyo, Ibaraki, Saitama and Chiba at 11:04 AM JST - 8th May
Alfie_in_Tokyo at 10:20 AM JST - 8th May

Is he pulling back on that bow for dramatic effect, or to stretch out the wrinkles?

Posted in Stallone at 10:20 AM JST - 8th May
Alfie_in_Tokyo at 10:18 AM JST - 8th May

I felt four tremors in a row, spaced over about an hour. The last one - in our eighth floor flat in Shinagawa - was a bit of a roller-coaster. Got back to sleep but then the whole thing carried on in my dreams, where I got woken up again…

Posted in Early warning system fails again as M6.7 quake hits Tokyo, Ibaraki, Saitama and Chiba at 10:18 AM JST - 8th May
Alfie_in_Tokyo at 09:53 AM JST - 7th May

Living in Wales for some years, I had a deer park 500m from my house. Each year the population would be actively culled to control it and the meat sold locally. I used to put my order in every year. Superb meat. Great for sausages, in stews, soaked in red…

Posted in Yezo deer meat used for hamburgers in Hokkaido at 09:53 AM JST - 7th May
Alfie_in_Tokyo at 09:42 AM JST - 7th May

The proceeds would go to recording companies, songwriters and artists.

If the proceeds went to the latter two of these then I could handle this proposal, just about. The outdated business practices of the recording industry aside, the people who write, and perform the music should get something back for…

Posted in Japan to propose copyright fees on iPods, digital hard disk recorders at 09:42 AM JST - 7th May