The Richter Scale of earthquake strength is something we are all unfortunately acquainted with and it is also something that most of us get completely wrong. For a start the Richter Scale is no longer used! Watch this xkcd video and learn how much power the Death Star generated. For …
Because It’s Friday – Break a Leg
This is not a theatre story but a space story. NASA’s first commercial co-operation Moon lander, landed on the Moon this week, but not really as planned. The Odysseus, built by Intuitive Machines, to carry six NASA experiments to the Moon, hit too hard, skidded to halt and boke one …
Because It’s Friday – “The cloud of expanding plasma that used to be the ball”
Let’s start today with the fact that Google says there are far too many characters in my title. The Google appointed SEO gods are only happy if your title has no more 60 characters because they care about * their users. Here comes another quote from today’s video “Google is …
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Because It’s Friday – Retro Tech
Two bits of retro tech this week with thirty years between them – both of which we take for granted today – just look at the dash of the modern VW above. First navigation. Second photography. Have a good weekend – wherever you are going or whatever you are photographing. …
Because It’s Friday – Mixing Valentine’s Day and Viruses!
Like an aging film star the computer virus has a number of birthdays – here is one of them: Computer viruses are celebrating their 40th birthday (well, 54th, really) – SANS Internet Storm Center This article also includes the fact that the computer virus is dead! Although you still need …
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