Getting into space is never easy and the launch of the rocket from the undercarriage of a plane from Newquay in Cornwall ended in a failure. Which is a shame for the 9 satellites that ere onboard and never got into orbit. Back in the 1960s this would be expected as we were all learning…
Month: January 2023
Too Much Talk
There is a huge amount of media attention given to Prince Harry in the UK. He is not alone in having a family that treats him badly. Probably because he is not, in all likelihood, the son of Charles. But he is alone in being in such a privileged position that he can make millions…
Malware
Don’t you just loathe the way people ruin everything. The internet was created by scientists to be a repository of knowledge open to everyone. It has become a cesspool of broken promises, criminal activity and kids ruining your website just for fun. We have actually allowed a large portion of society and a few entrepreneurs…
Artificial Intelligence
Despite the dystopian fantasies we have yet to create an artificial intelligence. This would mean we had a lump of metal that could intuit the world for itself, not regurgitate what we input or infer from trawling the internet based on a given programme. What we have so far is purely artificial. But then so…
May I Strike Please
Withdrawing one’s labour in order to gain better pay and conditions is a basic tool in the armoury of the wage earner. Making sure they cannot is the basic tool of governance. It is essential if you are going to require some people not toe strike, or some people not to have the ability to…
Who We Are
I have my own version of finding role models. When I was 10 years old going to CofE schools in the UK I told my mum a joke from the playground which, it turned out, was anti-Semitic. I was told by her that ‘we don’t say jokes like that Daniel, because we are Jews’. Of…
Dark Morning
It was raining heavily this morning here in Cornwall. I can imagine what it must be like to be without a home, to be always cold and hungry and now I hear Conservatives are beginning to mutter about getting Johnson back in Number 10. The desire to wield power and be in charge has blinded…
Child Care
We live in a world where over hundreds of years it has become acceptable for parents to let others care for their chidden. They do it because they need to work to pay the bills for the lifestyle they wish to have and impart to those children. Yet we are told the best way to…
Words; Edward Thomas
Words Out of us all That make rhymes Will you choose Sometimes – As the winds use A crack in a wall Or a drain, Their joy or their pain To whistle through – Choose me, You English words? I know you: You are light as dreams, Tough as oak, Precious as gold, As…