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 – The Future with Isaac Asimov
I liked most of the Foundation Series but to be honest, Isaac Asimov and all those robots and laws, really was not my thing. I was more space opera. However Dr. Isaac Asimov was a smart man – he advertised computers: I had one of these computers, I picked it …
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Because It’s Friday – Star Wars
This Hubble image was first released by NASA for the release of “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens,” in December 2015. It is an Herbig-Haro (HH) object – this one is HH24 – and is located in the Orion B molecular cloud complex, located 1,350 light-years away from Earth. …
Because It’s Friday – Rocket Risk
In a week when I have been talking about risk, just about everywhere, online, with clients and in our own staff meetings, it seems only right that one of my favourite YouTube channels produces a video on the risk with rockets. The footage of unmanned rockets exploding is spectacular, have …
May the Fourth – Happy Star Wars Day
May the Fourth For May the Fourth last year I found the original BBC Film ’77 review of Star Wars by Barry Norman – I thought it was worth revisiting for those of you that missed it: The post also links to some archive photos of the release from The Guardian.