I also noticed Nicholas Roche was in Team Sky. I wonders if he was son of Stephen Roche and looked it up; yes he is!!
His father, and both his mother's parents, are British, so he's a lot more British than many of the England cricket team of recent decades for example!
Did anyone post the news of Earth's newly found big brother planet.? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33646088 Kepler 452B is a bad name for it, but it does orbit Kepler, the star. It's 1400 light years away from us, orbits in 385 days, is 60% bigger than Earth and 1 billion years older. It is the most Earth-like planet ever found, and because it exists within a zone around Kepler, just like Earth does around Sol, the odds are very much favourable that it sustains life. So I can write here with a fairly high degree of probability, that we are no longer alone. It's one thing to realise it as a mathematical certainty that, given the vast number of stars and planets out there that life must exist elsewhere. It's quite another to find that there's one out there that's on our relative doorstep. And that's f****** amazing.
They're probably watching us, and rolling around on the floor laughing that some people on Earth still support Portsmouth.
Or why the rest of he UK hasn't lasered that bit of land keeping it joined and pushed it out of sea to drift across the oceans to some far flung place.
Just back in from covering Dagenham 2-1 Southend for the official website, which was a suitable reminder of why I don't tend to bother with pre-season.
After a billion more years they've probably decided which football team is the best and ended the competition for good.
Bear in mind that they are seeing us as we were 1400 years ago. The giggles won't start for donkey's years yet.
What a surprise baby Lewis is moaning that Nico is to blame for him not realizing where the tarmac goes... prat.
