20th June 2010, 4:36 PM
Actually this mine's been known about for about 3 years now already, it's only really hit the news just now though. Not sure why, but the big news groups are traditionally horrible at science reporting, learning in "news school" that unless it has a human narrative it's apparently boring.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)