WE FOUND IT FROM SPACE. The pothole. We found the pothole from space. Page 1.

Readers. We have done it. After three hundred years of the Pothole Question, after 412 Council resolutions, after the Graeber administration and all subsequent administrations, after every single column this paper has run on the subject of Kerbin's road infrastructure — we have photographed the pothole from orbit.

The POTHOLE module, launched at this publication's expense on a KeedMartin Final Stage Orbital Maneuver Engine aboard a KOEING SLS2 rocket, is now attached to the Large Station Initiative 1 in low Kerbin orbit. It has a camera. We pointed it at the road. The pothole is approximately 0.6 metres across and is visible in extraordinary detail from 380 kilometres above Kerbin. It is, if anything, worse than it looks from street level.

'The pothole from space. Finally. Someone did it.'

We are told by the station crew that our telescope is also very good at looking at things in space. We have filed this information under 'not our department' and returned to the pothole. The pothole remains on page 1. Everything else is on page 8.

The Council has been notified. The Council has not responded. The pothole has not been filled. We remain.