Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
For our “Because It’s Friday” bit this week I have a couple of moon cartoons from xkcd. I think these decisively prove that Randall Munroe has a very different way of thinking than the average geeky person. xkcd: Moon Landing Mission Profiles xkcd: Moon Armor Index From the real world …
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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 …
Robert Poole a Professor of History at the University of Central Lancashire has an article on The Conversation discussing the origins of the iconic, Apollo 8 photograph showing the Earth rising over the horizon of the moon. The Apollo 8 mission in December 1968 was the first-time men had gone …
I was looking for a YouTube clip of the SpaceX Starship launch for today’s Because It’s Friday, when I came across this much more interesting video. Pay particular attention to see how 50 year old data storage works. I thought the need for what would be considered outdated technology skills …
Just a quick “Because It’s Friday” this week. This made me smile but you have to read from the outside in. xkcd- Earth Layers Have a good weekend. Nasa ‘re-masters’ classic ‘Pale Blue Dot’ image of Earth xkcd on Smart Thinking Featured Image Credit NASA/Caltech
NASA has released a report stating that there is no evidence of extraterrestrial UFOs. NASA report finds no evidence that UFOs are extraterrestrial (theconversation.com) Of course, any article about UFOs had to include weather balloons! The U.S. government is so determined to put an end to UFOs that now US …
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Have a look at Randal Munroe’s page below on xkcd.com and let your mouse hover over the cartoon and all will be explained. xkcd: Exoplanet Observation Another “little green man” story And in the same week this was published on The Conversation. This article by Peter Vickers, Professor in Philosophy …
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