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      An interesting website named NovaPrism came up on my feed. It had an interesting explanation about the Universe. I had always read the Universe was the Big Bang and the matter it created and we see (part of it). But now we are talking about infinite. Space is flat meaning if I started travelling now I could carry on forever. But that sounds a bit silly, so what does it mean? It stated ‘ To understand how this is possible, it helps to separate the universe into two parts. The "observable universe" is the spherical bubble of space visible from Earth. Because the universe is 13.8 billion years old, light has only had that much time to reach telescopes, creating a visible horizon about 93 billion light-years across. This observable bubble is strictly finite, containing a limited number of galaxies. But the observable universe is just the region whose light has reached Earth' . So, the ‘universe’ is what we live in and see. The result of the ‘explosion’ (reall...

      The question of what AI will mean for humanity, is one that has no answer. At least not yet. This morning one learns the American supremos have limited access to one of the newest promotions, I think it is called Mythos or something like that. Is someone waking up to the dangers AI actually poses? The way development is going seems great until someone starts thinking – ‘What if this falls in the wrong hands?’ And quite obviously, looking at past human endeavours, developments ALWAYS fall into the wrong hands. It is inevitable. Either they just copy stuff, the Chinese and Japanese were very good at it or the Russians reverse engineered a Super Rolls Royce jet engine thanks to some woolly British politician thinking they were a humanitarians. So, AI will be in the hands who think banking is just for them. The question then is a simple one, how do you combat something like AI? Because in the end that is how it will be. Isaac Asimov wrote about it, years ago b...

      Reading he good Julia Hartley-Brewer’s penned effort in the Sun newspaper this morning, made me applaud. She has a knack of putting it just the way it is. She was talking about Britain being ‘ungovernable’. And as she said , no- it is not. The reason, and I totally agree, is that we’ve had mediocre duds as Prime Minister. Just have a proper look at the list, Lizzie Truss? I am sitting down with a cool bandage over my head. Boris? He only governed in between abseiling exercises, unfortunately he couldn’t remember what he was supposed to do. Sunak? Not too bad if he only remembered where his loyalties were. The irascible Ms May? Who was that again? Anyone remember her? No? Cameron then, anyone? Ah yes, are we in or out of the EU or should we belong to the United Kingdom. But first can anyone tell him what the United Kingdom is? Please? Well, like the good Julia, it is easy to despair, as I have also said many times, how in all honesty have we sunk so low? Th...

     As the politics is now dying in this country, and we are waiting for the seventh Prime Mogul in ten years, let’s have a look at how that is likely to play out. I read a news item on the mobile, already beginning to query some of the rumours going around. One of which said, that Sir (Burnham) is looking at taxing (oh jeez, here we go again) investments. So, selling some shares you might well lose half the income. It probably means we have arrived again at the usual Labour crap, tax the people, tax those rich b4st4rds. To be fair, there was also talk about dropping a few things. But if you believe that you need an appointment with a shrink! Labour will always tax, in any way they can. The frank truth is, they will never get enough from the so-called rich because those know quite well how to protect their money. So, it always tend to land on the backs of working people. You don’t need a binoculars to figure out why. Remember, “We will make life better for workin...

      What sort of nation have we become, for Pete’s sake? So we have a bit of warm weather, OK, a heatwave, but do we need these endless exhortations on TV about drinking water (if it isn’t already poisoned by Thames Water) or there haven’t been any warnings about Stand Pipes yet. We now have to cope with Green, Amber and Red warnings pushed onto the population every five seconds. I think as a people we understand very well that some of us will die. If we do not look after ourselves well enough, and you know what I mean, smoking and drinking or taking drugs, we will simply be asking for trouble. And nature will present the bill. The other thing we will have to start understanding is, it is us, all of us, who are guilty of messing with this planet. So, there is a problem with CO2, oh not to worry the oceans will take it up. No, it doesn’t, at least not in the quantities we blow out driving cars and flying planes.       Yes, I too like my hol...

      There is no greater fool than one who thinks he has done a great job. Despite all the signs that the truth is a heck of a lot different! And here we have Mr Snoozefest, Starmer. But let us be clear, he is a decent man, but so not suitable to lead a nation.  A law degree from Leeds or somewhere around there. A man who seemed to be well liked by his contemporaries. But he is going. The seventh PM in a decade. What does that say actually? It simply seems that position comes with a warning. That warning is ‘Don’t talk nonsense’. Meaning, don’t promise things you cannot keep and then do the opposite. For instance, anyone remember the sound bites? ‘Country First, Party Second’? ‘We are making lives better for working people?’ ‘We don’t intend to raise taxes’? It seems that, as I have mentioned before, as soon as a party is in government, the intentions change. So, why are we all listening to the crap they come out with? None of it is going to be done. The r...