To put all the world’s current travails into perspective, scientists have found a planet (K2-18B, a mere 700 trillion miles away) which has gasses in its atmosphere indicative of large quantities of marine plankton being present. This is the closest we’ve come to finding signs of life elsewhere in the Universe. Since we’ve only had the capability to look for a few years, If we’ve found one incidence then it’s likely they’re all over the place. It’s important to remember they’re spread in time as well as space: the universe is billions of years old and life may have come and gone years before we existed or will come after we’ve gone. In fact, it does raise the question whether civilisations do have a tendency to grow up only to then destroy themselves as they acquire ever more deadly weapons or eventually destroy the environments they live in. The probability it is life is 99.7% but scientists would require it to be 99.99 recurring to regard it as definite. Work remains to be done in eliminating other sources for the gas e.g geological processes which are not found on Earth. Even this plankton could of course have higher IQs than some presidents who could be named……
Good to know Lincolnshire can get this sort of a connection but down here with the first Emmet Invasion of the year underway, we cant get alink between the M5 and the A303. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/ne...er&cvid=b3dbb1b432024025a8c50d1546579626&ei=9
How can Trump lose patience and abandon Ukraine over a peace deal....and at the same time sign a mineral deal and rape Ukraine of its rich mining wealth. Trump seems to believe Putin far more than Ukraine and must be the only person (plus his cronies) in the world that believes Putin generally wants a peace deal. A little different from his "I'll sort out a peace deal within 24hrs" when I become President gloating.
He's a danger to the human race - no, really, goodness knows what he could provoke. And if he tries to stand for a third term, in spite of the fabled American Constitution, then who knows what mayhem will break out in America.
Saw this on the news....humans need not worry just yet......they're trying to beat 3hrs for a half marathon ...so only a third of top human speed.
What a hero Putin is....he is going to give Ukraine the Easter weekend off.....before continuing to blow their brains out.....Trump will probably give him a few extra brownie points for being so generous.
SHOCK.....horror of horrors.....all my life I've been eating McVitie's chocolate digestive biscuits the wrong way up. "The boss of the factory where McVitie's chocolate digestive biscuits are made has delivered a revelation which will astonish biscuit lovers worldwide. These teatime staples were designed to be eaten facing down....this now gives us all an excuse to enjoy at least two chocolate digestives today to determine which is the most delicious way to munch this treat". Daily Express...Friday...25/04/2025.
A bad week for Dutch art exhibitions Child damages €50m Rothko painting in Dutch museum https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6dvdwjpj4o Warhol print accidentally thrown away by Dutch town hall https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnv58ejyrpzo
Oh dear. Your local corner shop, Amazon, are to itemise the cost of tariffs on purchases by their American customers. The Trump administration (if that’s the right word to describe them) have labelled this as “an hostile and political act”.
There was an extrordinary column in Sunday's Times by Dominic Lawson (eldest son of Nigel Lawson, Margaret Thatcher's Chancellor), in which he accused Trump of widespread corruption. The header read: Trump’s presidency is his family’s piggybank The US leader’s graft is astonishing, but he learnt from the best: Putin You can't read the whole thing online with a subscription unfortunately. I'm surprised there hasn't been some diplomatic blow-back. He accused him of using his crypto-currency operations to launder suspect payments, to be taking money from the Saudi's to broker a deal between the two warring golf competitions and charging business owners up to $5m to dine with him at his Mar a Lago resort, making the point a town mayor who took a few hundred dollars for a similar arrangement would be arrested, and of engineering money-making opportunities for his relatives. Trump's also been in the news for pressurising golfing authorities to lift a ban on staging major golf events at his Turnberry course, again it seems with the connivance of the Saudis, and then there's his fraud conviction for falsely valuing his property interests.
Glimmer of hope for the world. Trump says that he won't run for a third term. But we know that tomorrow he'll say the opposite and deny that he ever said he wouldn't.
No but perhaps he has other things in mind. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrg8zkz8d0o Weird or what?
Yea he looked good in that regalia...Pope Donald the First.....got a good ring about it....of course he'd move the Vatican to the USA....all part of making America great again. PS.....Buckingham Palace next.
I watched the film “Conclave” last night. If the real cardinals have to deal with the same issues, good luck to them……
It's been a big day today on the 80th anniversary of VE Day. I thought mention a few things I remember my Dad saying, himself a school boy during the war years. His father served in WW1, as a warrant officer in Mesopotamia in WW1 and was mentioned in dispatches. I guess he was lucky to serve there rather than in France, In WW2, he commanded the local Home Guard platoon. My Mother's dad was either in the Navy or the dockyard in WW1 and in WW2, worked at what was a BBC longwave radio station just off the A30 west of Bodmin, which during war, transmitted long distance signals to ships in the Atlantic. The site is now a builders merchant, In the spring of 1941, Dad remembers being able to see Plymouth burn from 40 miles away in Cornwall. Later that year, one of his classmates learned his Dad had been lost when the battlecruiser HMS Repulse was sunk by Japanese aircraft together with HMS Prince of Wales. In the spring of 1944, Dad along with school friends were sent to cycle down to west Cornwall to pick early potatoes. Thousands of American troops were encamped on the Goss Moor alongside the A30. When they came back a couple or weeks later, they'd gone, on their way to Utah or Omaha Beaches.
I have to admit that I find it hard to do Rememberance stuff. That's despite being what is commonly called these days a veteran. I've been to a few cemetarys in Belgium and France and been suitably moved by the number of graves there are and the age of the occupants. I've seen the names on the walls of the Menin Gate in Epres and stood to listen to the last post there. It is very emotive. Then I listen to the news from around the World and the hate speak for mankind who don't happen to be our colour and I wonder if those who died would do it all again and find it worth it. If I were one of them I would have to say I doubt it. The World in general have learnt nothing.
