Good man, he came out of this touching film well as the man who gave Neil Baldwin a job as the kit-man at Stoke City when he was their manager... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659786/ Well worth a watch if you haven't seen it, Toby Jones plays Neil so well.
NASA have successfully landed Perseverance rover on Mars and first images are coming through. Nasa's Perseverance rover lands on Mars - BBC News
I know its cheesy to some, but this to me really shows how great mankind is and what can be achieved if we stopped all the squabbling A great achievement to send something 130 million miles away, where there is an 8 second delay in radio waves as it is so far and get it to touchdown in a crater on another world and send back hi-res pictures. Truly astounding work.
Yeah - and at around 10% of the cost of a failed track and trace system in the U.K. (sorry to bring up politics, but that statistic blows my mind!)
Was reading earlier that Track and Trace is set to be significantly more expensive than the construction of the Channel Tunnel, even adjusted for inflation. That is £22bn to develop an app as oppose to roughly £15bn to build a nearly 30 mile railway tunnel under the sea. Was Serco selected without due diligence? On the face of it, it’s hard not to look at those figures alone, see what was delivered and suspect that there must be some massive fraud / theft of taxpayers money being perpetrated by the U.K. Government and associated ‘contractors’. (also sorry to bring up politics).
I grew up in the 50s and 60s when all kids dreamed of rocket flights and space travel. Things now are both better than we dreamed in terms of technology and less in terms of people in space. We imagined that a lot of people would be living in space and on the moon by 2021 . Life was simpler then. We know more now about the problems of space travel and the unimaginable distances involved. The Universe is so vast and amazing and we are just a little part of it. And then I think where is the universe and why is the universe....and then my head explodes.
I learned a long time ago to stop thinking of the universe as a human and not to humanise it. It is what it is, and IMO we are a tiny, tiny, tiny (x10 power 100 trillion) part of it. Once we get that, we'll realise how delicate a planet we live on and how the chances of a planet with life (as we know it) are so rare we have to preserve it and cherish it. In my life I have a plan b and plan c, but there is no planet b that we know about. It's a shame humans don't quite get that in the main (not you fran). You know why we haven't met another civilisation? Nothing to do with technology. I think we are too stupid and will destroy the planet before we get the chance to expand and explore beyond the solar system. On that happy note goodnight all
