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Film Review: Starship Troopers

23rd December 2020 Going Postal 3080 Comments

Robert A. Heinlein’s book Starship Troopers (1959) marked his transition from writing juvenile pulp science fiction to serious novels of ideas, in this case setting forth a highly reactionary and militarist political philosophy. Paul Verhoeven’s [more…]

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Collecting Spaceflight Coins

19th November 2020 Going Postal 5114 Comments

Several attempts at an article have been made by me during the past year or two, but they have never made it past the “put flesh on the bones” stage. Having assessed a few more [more…]

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Nothing is Beyond Our Reach

3rd September 2020 Always Worth Saying 3957 Comments

During a presidential debate, a little old lady, her grey hair in a bun, asks, “Name the three most important Space Race countries”. Sleepy-creepy Jo Biden, from his basement and with the benefit of voice [more…]

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Apollo Thirteen

6th August 2020 Going Postal 2521 Comments

The big issue of today appears to be the climate emergency, have I got that right? Well, what is causing the problem? Carbon Dioxide, yup, got that. 400 parts per million atmospheric CO2, definitely a [more…]

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The Death of a Star

21st February 2020 Going Postal 3382 Comments

The star in question is Betelgeuse (pronounced Beetle Juice). Betelgeuse is what is known as a Red SuperGiant, a star so massive that if it were at the centre of our Solar System in place [more…]

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Something’s Wrong With The FFRC – Episode 1

20th February 2020 Going Postal 2801 Comments

The following short video is a fictional account of an imaginary craft and crew searching the far reaches of cyberspace. All characters are the result of a very sick mind and any familiarity to persons [more…]

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The Last Hurrah for ‘Global Warming’?

16th October 2019 Going Postal 4392 Comments

One of the areas in which the UK has lost control  during its membership of the EU is that of being able to respond to the climate change agenda. True, both the UK and the [more…]

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Where Astrophysics meets Climate Science

19th April 2019 Going Postal 3418 Comments

– Astrophysicists have succeeded in decoding Solar activity and the results show that  climate scientists have some questions to answer. There is an interesting collision about to take place between astrophysics and climate science. This [more…]

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The Sun – page 2 unfortunately….

27th March 2017 rattuscatchus 0 Comments

Previously, we looked at our Sun and how it works however only a small part was covered. We saw that  quantum tunneling allowed protons to fuse in conditions that classical physics – that relying only [more…]

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