Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Something quick this week’s for “Because It’s Friday”: xkcd: Slingshots You want a bit more? Here is a quick explanation of gravity assist from Mashable. For the record 1974 comes before 1977, so the Voyager missions were not the first spacecraft to use gravity assist for extended space exploration. (Watch …
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I have two “Because It’s Friday” things for you today. The first is the continuing search for intelligent extra-terrestrial life: How gravitational waves could help detect Star Trek-style warp drive spaceships – The Conversation The second is from xkcd and is another maths joke. An occasional series I started because my son is …
I am about to go to Scotland on holiday and this showed up on The Conversation: In defence of midges (theconversation.com) I am not sure Diana, or our Scottish family and friends would get much comfort from this point of view. Now for something completely different… …we will continue our …
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It s a while since we have had a space story on “Because It’s Friday” and this one also includes some maths to work out just how big is the Solar System? How astronomers work out the size of the Solar System – The Conversation NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is shown …
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For those of you who have forgotten, it is Father’s Day this Sunday, if you need some inspiration for a quick gift I have got you covered: No affiliate links, just a bit of fun. Me, I know what I am getting from one son – a night out at …
