Ear Buds Apocalypse

One thing I noticed a lot these days is many people wear ear buds; this has killed off reading and small talk, all things that are essential for a healthy human mind. They also wear them while they're driving so they drive very fast and crash Into things. 

I am aware that Peru are having general elections right now. I read the news sometimes. Do people even know what is going on all around them?  Do people even know what is happening? 

Sometimes we just need to stop and observe the world around us. There are all sorts of things all around us we don't really notice. 

Tyson Fury Fight

I watched the Tyson Fury Fight last night, he won on points. Both boxers managed to avoid a knockout loss. It was on netflix so I thought I would watch it after the flight 3054 documentary series. I think boxing at that level is very difficult because they have to move a lot to stop their brain being dislodged in their skull and they have to keep going even when they're tired. I thought it is Ironic that the one person that understands the most what they're  going through is the opponent. Maybe that is why they hug when the match is over. 

As for the flight 3054 documentary, they established the cause of the air crash so the series was all about how they figured out who was to blame. It was set up as a mystery with the truth that slowly emerged piece by piece. It was partly pilot error, partly airport infrastructure and partly the airlines fault. I didn't know that the reverse thruster controls work differently on different planes and there should have been an alarm to draw attention to one fruster in climb and one in brake mode. The runway was still being resurfaced and didn't have rain grooves installed yet so the runway itself was also too slippery. The blame was shared by many. Netflix has many true life mysteries like that and they're very interesting. The default language for the documentary is Portuguese because it was a Brazilian crisis. 

All this happened just after the splashdown when the four Artemis astronauts returned to earth after going around the far side of the moon. 

Interesting  times we live in. 

SlowMag 40

I was thinking about a metro train that would deliberately go slow and it would hover on magnetic fields. I would call it the SlowMag40 because it is slow, it hovers on magnetic fields and moves at 40 kilometers per hour (25 miles per hour). Why? It would be designed to be reliable and comfortable. 

I drew this in 5 minutes because I don't get much time but you get the idea. You get 8 padded sofa like seats with each door set and a window pane bench on both sides, that's it. There are 3 door sets for each trian carriage. 

There isn't much stuff to go wrong, the train is slow, there are no wheels, it goes 25 mph, there isn't much wind resistance. Although the train moves, there isn't much moving parts. 

Time is the worst pirate. 

Bank Holiday

During the Easter bank holiday, NASA launched the Orion Spaceship into orbit around the Earth, It then did an escape burn and was slung towards the moon, it went around the far side of the moon and headed back to earth. It appeared to be to test the integrity of the new technology. The four astronauts are brave souls. I wouldn't sit on a tiny capsule at the end of a large rocket like that; they can explode and vaporise the crew. 

I was wondering if a person had a heart attack and collapsed on a railway crossing and were hit by a train, what would be the cause of death? You could stay it was the train that caused the death but he wouldn't have been in the path of the train if his heart didn't stop. You could also say it was his heart that caused the death but then he may have survived the heart attack but the train ended hope for recovery. I guess both items would be considered, an accident caused by a medical crisis. I think about death every day for a short time because it is something we can't avoid. I'm not a negative person, I just accept that every being in this world dies; that's just the way it is. 

Artemis Easter

It was the Easter weekend and the Orion Spaceship performed an escape burn to slingshot itself towards the moon. It crossed the Lagrange point and entered the moons hillsphere ( an area around the moon where the moon's gravity pulls more than the Earth's). 

The four astronauts on the spaceship are going to pass around the far side of the moon and then return to Earth.  At the time of writing this post, they were very close to the moon, just some hours away from a flyby. They won't land on this mission, it's just to test out the new hardware and make sure they can reach the moon safely. The last thing I saw on the live feed was the crew asking flight control if they could tilt the spaceship to get a better view of the moon's surface. 

We are going to see a close up shot of the moon with modern cameras, that will be interesting. I was wondering if they're getting flashing in their eyes from deep space radiation? Have they found a way to deal with deep space radiation yet? I don't know. 

Interesting times.

What March 2026 Means To Me

The main news for March was the ongoing war between Iran and the Israel USA alliance. Lots of missiles were flying all over the place. The strait of Hormuz was shut down; oil couldn't be shipped out of the Arabian peninsula freely, this caused a lot of inflation and high energy prices. 

Last time I checked, petrol was selling in Britain at £1.60 per litre, that is lame. 

When chaos is happening all around you, when you are wondering how many people have perished and when this will ever end, just remember the average person can't do much. I think about other things; that's what I do. I acknowledge what is happening and then I look away and hope for the best. 

I was looking at the daisies in the grass verges. It is a flower that looks very ordinary but it is clever, it sprouts from amongst the grass but doesn't expose itself too much, just enough to get the bees attention. It avoids getting eaten by rabbits because they can't see it, you need to be a flying insect to see it. 

I will say no more. 

Tin Soup Pasta Sabbath

As I get older, I understand why the Sabbath was made. We go through a cycle of 7 days. On one of those days we should do nothing. Our mind is saturated with hostile thoughts and restless worries. There needs to be a day to reset everything. I think that is one of the greatest gifts from the Jewish people, it is knowing we should do our best all week but one day we stop. Most Christians I know of have their Sabbath on Sunday because Jesus was resurrected on that day. One day a week I think of nothing, I play computer games and sit about. I think it is better to follow the Jewish version, rest on Saturday, think nothing, do nothing just pray and acknowledge God, get some fresh air and chill out with family and friends. 

I bought one of those 400 ml soup tins from the supermarket the other day and mixed it with some fusilli pasta. I have a clay pot with a glass lid, it can go in the microwave or the oven.  It came out very nice, like it was made in a restaurant. The vetables in the soup became part of the pasta and the spices in the soup merged with the it, the pasta absorbed all the water in the soup. There are so many different tinned soups, I tried the vegetable soup. Perhaps next time I can try the tomato one. 

Cook pasta slowly in tinned soups, it works. You make a high quality pasta dish without doing much. I recommend lowering the power of the microwave if that is what you use. You can set the power of the microwave to 60% so the soup and pasta doesn't boil over. The lid traps most of the heat anyway.