I'm not at all sure we should be taking life to the Moon with zero means of bringing it back or managing it. ______________ Totally agree. We really are a rather arrogant race aren't we. Rather than ask 'could we', maybe we should start asking 'should we?'
With a boat called Mr Steven, SpaceX had several goes at catching rocket fairings from space. And he missed them all. Mr Steven was only hired by SpaceX and he was bought by another company. SpaceX hired him gain, but only after he changed sex to Ms Tree. Now she has had two goes and has caught a fairing both times. It's a Ms Tree:
we could mold all the world's waste plastic into large blocks and then build some enormous polyhedron shaped structures in the sahara desert and bury some very rich company directors underneath them. When the human race starts to re-emerge in 20,000 years they will marvel at these structures and spend centuries and a fortune trying to work out how we did it!
A woman was poisoned after she decided to clean the coral in her fish tank. Apparently she didn't know coral is not just something that looks pretty it is actually a living organism. The coral unsurprisingly didn't like being scrubbed and released a poisonous chemical. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-49269013
The new Tarantino film has me wondering how he even actually ever made Pulp Fiction. He must have spent eight months in a hotel room with George Lucas to knock something as **** as this up!
I feel a little bad that I might well have helped Disney's Lion cash grab beat it in the box office, so I'm going to do a retraction, and now state its brilliant!* (its original, its well cast & acted....its Quentin) *its not great, but at least he sets out to do his vision, not many film makers left now, be a sad day when he's gone
Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood. Thank f*** that's over. Hateful Eight was [also].... a bit tosh. Kurt Russell was in that one as well. The non-Tarantino western he made immediately before it [with the same moustache] was way better. Bone Tomahawk - see, I come up with the title.
The problem is, in a world full of re-makes, we don't want to hound out one of the last truly original film makers. I hope he picks a plot befitting his talent next time.
There is no doubt that there is something that encapsulates a Tarantino film. It's absolutely plain as day. It's a script that has a modicum of overt poetry about it, and it's a bit overly verbose too [that is, it's bloated with talk, often entertaining, though often not]. Plus, the plot requires violence of a very bloody kind, not necessarily accurate. You either dial into this type of film or you don't. Plus, it doesn't always work. Sometimes [often] it seems contrived. So, I couldn't imagine Tarantino doing something like Terms of Endearment. Or a film of genuine emotion, borne of either personal experience or a realistic depiction of a real experience. That doesn't always matter because films are entertainment, though at their very best they can become art. I think that Tarantino often shoots for art and never hits. That's my opinion. But they are often entertaining. Bone Tomahawk [2015], which I would encourage Tarantino fans to watch, is probably closer to art than anything that Tarantino has done recently.
I read that Arsenal's Hector Bellerin is scared for the future of the Earth. And he says that footballers need to start behaving responsibly. Good. One headline footballer speaks out. But we need more. And we need football clubs to start looking at how sustainable they can make their businesses regards environmental impact, from top to bottom. Well done, Hector. You might have started something.
There's a thing that happens in all types of distance racing where human power is involved. There's a load of jostling for position, then it settles down. Then sometimes, someone goes for it early. Most of the time the pack let's that one go, because they know that early burst will only mean that the racer will come back to them eventually. And that's just become the case with electric vehicles. There's been jostling, there have been early pacers, but now a company has gone for it. Indeed, Volkswagen have gone for it. They could hardly do anything else, considering the reputation they've earned themselves these recent years. VW's senior vice president says that he sees electric car price parity soon, which will be the tipping point for EV adoption. And he's not wrong. The thing is, everyybody, with the possible exception of a few people like Elon Musk, thiought price parity would occur around 2025-26 [they were always wrong, but their opinions get heard] Reinhard Fischer, SVP for Volkswagen Group and the head of strategy for the VW brand in North America, made the comment to Automotive News at the 2019 CAR Management Briefing Seminars in Michigan: “We strongly believe that the tipping point is near, and that tipping point will be price equity” The executive believes that Volkswagen’s massive electric car push will bring new economies of scale to electric car production and achieve price parity. VW is currently investing billions in order to change its all-electric car production capacity from a few thousand units per year to 2 to 3 million all-electric cars a year by 2025. Fischer added: “Once you overcome the fear of something new, the EV is the better choice for you. I don’t think it’s going to take a lot of convincing. There is a fundamental curiosity. Everybody sees the end state. When you put pencil to paper, owning a full-electric vehicle costs about half of what a gas car costs me to operate.” However, there are going to be a few hurdles, but it’s nothing too difficult to overcome. The executive said that VW held a few focus groups about EVs in order to learn what is holding back people from going electric and they didn’t find any unsolvable problems. He said: “There is still the [ignorant] fear about driving electric cars through water. For 50 years, we’ve educated people that electricity and water don’t mix.” Fischer also mentioned the charging infrastructure: “Range anxiety has now been replaced by charging anxiety,” “A hundred years ago, gasoline was sold at pharmacies. Today, we have 122,000 gas stations in the United States. It’s transformed from a bottleneck to a commodity. Electric charging is going to be exactly the same.” VW is deploying charging stations through Electrify America and in Europe, the company is participating in the Ionity charging network. And where does that leave Tesla? Well, you know that pace maker, who starts at the same time and wastes energy to pull everyone else around in the fastest time possible, but who eventually drops out? Well that's Tesla, with one difference. Their self assigned role has been as the pace maker, to pull every auto-maker out of their lethargy. But the difference is, they haven't been wasting energy because they started their race nearly 20 years before everyone else. And while everyone else is catching up a bit, Tesla has such an infrastructure and technological lead that being a relative minnow in the field is not too much of a hindrance. My opinion is that the traditional auto-makers think they have to catch Tesla, when really they have to catch the Chinese, who have decided to export to Europe and America, right in the price point that really hurts. The mass market. And people won't give a **** about 'brand' when the quality ends up the same but the price is £5,000 cheaper. Thank you Electrek.com
And he says that footballers need to start behaving responsibly. --------------------------- We need developers to start behaving responsibly. The problem is, they seem more reckless and greedy than ever before.
