Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I am sure you all know why restaurants seek recognition from a tyre company but “Because It’s Friday” let’s have Hannah Fry explain it to us in a haze of foam and truffle oil. Something extra Have you ever felt the need to build your own space station, but you …
I have two space things for today’s “Because It’s Friday“. Ian Whittaker, a Senior Lecturer in Physics at Nottingham Trent University has written an interesting article on extra terrestrial life and how it may be detected. Indicators of alien life may have been found – astrophysicist explains what the new …
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Here is NASA’s answer for “what is a planet?”. What is a Planet? – NASA But because it’s Friday, it is much more fun is to see what Randall Munroe does, when asked “what is a planet?”‘ xkcd: Planet Definitions Something Extra Marks and Spencer are in the middle of …
Following on from the “Because It’s Friday” look at the Walkman – here is another even older tech film. Space age electronics. The Eagle has landed This is worth watching, Public Service Broadcasting’s exciting track about the Apollo 11 moon landing, complete with sampled commentary from mission control as the …
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I was pleased with last Friday’s “Because It’s Friday“, published on December 6th about December 6th. So, when last Friday, December 6th, I saw this video on YouTube, again featuring December 6th – it had to be today’s post. I loved the term “premature propellant depletion”! Here is what NASA …
