Artemis and Armchair

I was reading through some of the NASA blogs and noticed that they had more or less finished building the most powerful vehicle ever made by mankind, the Orion Space Rocket. This spring will be the beginning of the Artemis Space missions. I was given the impression by the NASA blogs that the first mission will be a flyby, the astronauts will go around the far side of the moon and back to earth without landing; they are brave souls. They know how dangerous it is but they are going ahead with it. The radiation in deep space is unpredictable and very dangerous. They sit on a rocket that could malfunction and explode. I think the moon flyby will be on the first week of March. 

I need a new armchair and I think about it every time I see the word Artemis. My recliner is worn out, I've had it for 7 years and I do most of the reading and work on it. They sell reclining armchairs with all the trimmings, heating messages and electric extending foot rest on those budget sites. The trouble is you don't get to try it until you get it in the post. You just have to trust the customer ratings. If 300 people say the product is very comfortable then it probably is. 

Country Thoughts

One thing that annoys me is when people criticise my country too much, especially when they say things that aren't true. They will claim we invented slavery and the nations we occupied were perfect and all happy sitting by a fire singing together and things like that. They claim that Britain = Villain. 

I have a response to those people, I ask if I would be called racist if I criticised another country. Then I ask if there is anything good that Britain did for the world. Usually those people would say no, we gave nothing useful to the world. 

My response would be, Isaac Newton was English, before his time people thought gravity was a universal force throughout the whole universe, that you would fall even if you were half way between Mars and Earth. Isaac worked out that gravity as an effect of mass and the planets are falling constantly in a loop because of gravity. He gave the world many other things, like calculus and things like that. 

We raised the life expectancy of my nations because we pioneered vaccines and antibiotics. Small pox is irradiated from earth because of Britain. When penecilin was invented, it worked on syphilis. 

We invented trains and cylinder engines and countless other useful things. Anyway, my point is God allowed my nation to bring many gifts to this world and I hope we can bring many more. I hope that God would allow me to turn Britain into a paradise, flower baring cladding, swampy islands in the sea made of the ashes of burnt sewage with beautiful trees on top. Street lights full of beautiful fiber optic petrustions. Loads of cheap food. 

That is what I look for, I search of excellence, with everything I do. Starting with my 3 active blogs. 

What January 2026 Means To Me

January was the best winter we ever had. Almost no frost at all and mild days. I went on lots of outings. It would be nice to go to some museums on my own one day just so I can take my time and read all the exhibit signs. I'm a very boring person and I like to inspect lots of information very closely. In a way, I have museums in my pocket; my smart phone has access to Wikipedia and the britianica encyclopedia. Plus I have bookmarks to numerous scientific blogs. 

While I was visiting different places, there was an ongoing genocide taking place in Iran, Nigeria and Sudan. All those people that were accusing Israel of Genocide were silent. The silence of their selective outrage was very revealing, it shows that there are many people embracing dogma and an irrational hatred of the Jews. When real human disasters occur, they don't care or they deny it is happening.

I care, I'm not controlled by dogma. I want all people on Earth to live in peace. I can't do much really. I hate it when parents are burying their children. I hate seeing lots of bodies laying on the ground, all people that had hobbies and dreams and quirks to their personality. People that didn't know it was their last day. It makes me feel angry when people shoot someone dead and they think they're doing the right thing.

I will say no more about January 2026. Nothing. 

The Fig Tree

I recall a story in the Gospel of Mathew, there was a fig tree by the side of the road but it wasn't the season when figs are produced. Fig trees make small bumps on their bark called taqsh(tash) , I think they're the plant tissue used to make a flower to produce the fig fruits. People would break them off and chew them in their mouth to settle their hunger urges. 

Jesus reached out to grab some taqsh from the tree but there was none, not even on the higher branches that were out of reach. This means the fig tree was barren, people would know this but they didn't get around to chopping it down or they thought they should leave it there for the shade or for some other reason. 

When Jesus saw that it wasn't making taqsh baby figs, he said may you never bear fruit again to the tree. The tree instantly started to die and fall apart. 

He showed everyone that we have free will but our essence doesn't, if Jesus says burst into flames, you'll burst into flames, if Jesus tells a storm to stop it stops, if he tells a fig tree to die, it dies. That's probably why demons are so afraid of him. He even told some people to come back to life after they had died. 

I think that is what they were trying to tell us when they wrote that passage. 

Perspective Shift

Last night I learnt that the 32bit  graphics cartridges on the evercade work ok the super pocket. I was convinced the super pocket would have limited support for Evercade games and only play the 8bit and 16bit side scrolling games. I was wrong because I saw a Scottish guy on youtube playing tomb raider 1, 2 and 3 on the system. 

Here is is video, hopefully the link still works your present time. 

https://youtu.be/FA9-aGyX-kw?si=vF7XkRLovNhH1LzM

To me it is amazing because I thought the super pocket is just a generic pocket emulator for playing side scrolling retro games. I didn't know it can handle the first generation 3d games that were played on the original playstation and Nintendo 64. It's amazing to me because it handles the games without overheating, there is no vent or fan to cool it down; they figured out a way to handle lots of 3d polygons without using too much power and heat. 

What I am trying  to say is they have made a pocket PlayStation with no moving parts, no fan, no vent for the processors, just a heat sync panel. 

I get it though, they have designed processors and graphics controller chips that can do quite a lot of work without using too much power and spurting out too much heat; even my current phone, the Motorola g85 has the snap dragon 600 and adrino 600 graphics chips, and my phone wasn't sold as top graphics pocket system like the new Samsung galaxy phones or I-phone 14. 

It's amazing to me. Not to the previous generations that take it for granted, it is amazing to me and people a like me that have some perspective. 

We all have super computers in our pockets, computers that would trump the best computers in the oldern days. 

Evercade Thoughts

I was looking through the evercade website https://evercade.co.uk/ and was thinking it would be a good idea to start with the super pocket system first and then get the alpha bar top player when the pocket system is worn out. Both the Evercade alpha and the super pocket take the same cartridges. 

I also found it amusing that they have cartridge collections from handheld devices that were discontinued. I can play the Atari lynx collection as if I were playing the original hand held system. I never had a game gear or Atari lynx so in a way I could get both of them. I didn't even know neo geo made a hand held game system when I was a kid. 

A retro world waiting to be discovered... 

Raised Inverted head chute

I was trying to fall asleep earlier and let my imagination assist me a bit. I imagined creating an art exhibit where there is some raised inverted boxes perched on stilts. You stick you head in them and you find yourself in a museum about perspective. The boxes are dressed up like dolls houses with a hole in the floor for your neck. The idea would be to create a Kind of analogue virtual reality. I don't think ai is ready to draw this thought of mine so I drew it myself.

The problem with the rig itself would be that people have different heights. There would need to be a rig underneath that allows people of different heights to be level. 

The goal of the art installation would be to make people aware of how small and insignificant we are. Even if you were the king or Queen of the whole planet and you lived for 700 years you would find you are insignificant, the whole earth is just a speck in the cosmos and our whole life is fleeting moment in time. Even the materials that make up your body are made almost entirely of empty space. 

The mini museum would show you visually how even the entire galaxy is tiny compared to the universe and 85 years is short compared to the 13 plus billion years of the universe's existence. 

You would be standing in a fake museum; only your head would be there. The fake mini museum shows you how grand everything is yet it is small and nested inside an art gallery. If it is the Tate modern then it would be the tubine hall. 

The thought is nice and unlikely to become true but the main purpose of the thought was to make it easier for me to fall asleep, to make me stop thinking about things that make me worried so at that time it was totally constructive.