I listened to most of the foreign correspondents on BBC radio 4 discussing their predictions for 2023. They were all well informed guesses and often they get it right because for the most part, the players are all in place. But, as is the way of predictions and life in general, we must always suppose…
Tag: NASA
NASA
I remember as a young writer of twenty-two writing to NASA. They had a policy of looking into the feasibility of sending a journalist into orbit as they could write about the experience with a better understanding of words than their astronauts. A policy that died or was shelved. I wrote to them as a…
The Financial Crisis
The planet earth and every single atom of organic and inorganic life on it, was a free gift to humanity. In fact pretty much a free gift to all sentient beings. The biggest free lunch we could conceive of before we conceived of blasting off into the wider Universe where the only thing that will…
The New Frontier
I have often thought that the search for knowledge should not just be an International effort based at NASA, but truly International with every country paying what it can for access to the knowledge and everyone sharing all the information. Not that that would ever happen because some knowledge would contain properties that different countries…