According to Flight Global, The Government wants to develop a rocket, dubbed “LauncherOne,” to sit on the back of WhiteKnightTwo and when the craft reaches the proper altitude, launch off on its own to begin orbit. The microsatellites would be under 200kg in weight, though it’s unclear exactly what the satellites will do. But with all these add-ons, WhiteKnightTwo is starting to remind me of The Centurions or something. [Flight Global via The Register]

Obviously, I don’t need to tell you guys why this will never happen, but I will anyway.For a start, who’s going to be doing the rating? Considering the billions of English-speaking websites online already how does he plan on reviewing and rating every website? Plus there’s the fact that websites are constantly changing, evolving beasts – what’s to stop a PG-rated site from becoming M rated after someone posts a story that isn’t quite suitable for kids? The only conceivable solution would be an automated software solution, which would almost fail and slow down the internet as well.

Then there’s the whole local angle – I mean, can we really expect to rate websites when we can’t even rate video games properly?

My guess is that this plan will be taken quietly out back and killed off…

[Reuters]