There was an interesting article that attracted my attention in The Guardian, by John Naughton about Wernher von Braun, often called the “Father of the American Space Program”. For those of you that do not know it, von Braun and some other technicians who had worked with him on the …
Because It’s Friday – an ethical dilemma UPDATED 1 May 2022
This post was originally posted on 29 April 2022 and of course the final cartoon in the sequence below was published on the 30th! Here it is: AI Death With Dignity – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2022-04-30 | Dilbert by Scott Adams Here is the original post It is not …
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Because It’s Friday – 32 years of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Apollo 11 Moon landing
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know I like space. To celebrate 32 years of operation of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), this week NASA released a video and an image taken by the HST of the Hickson Compact Group 40. This is an unusual collection …
Because It’s Friday – A Time Travel Story
I am pretty sure my love of good time travel stories started when I saw Rod Taylor in HG Wells’ The Time Machine – some time in the 1960s. It’s a classic, it looks good, and it kept to HG’s story. Then there are the Weeping Angels in Blink. An …
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The shape of things to come – UPDATED
This post was first published on 24 March 2022 Here is an example of a cyber attack probably carried out as part of the Russia Ukraine conflict that has a carry over effect to Europe and the rest of the world. Viasat Satellite Hack Spills Beyond Russia–Ukraine War | WIRED …