Unfolding outcome

It is the last bit of 2021, we are a day away from the new year. The theme this month is the unfolding of the new space telescope called 'James Webb'.  We also received the verdict for the Ghislaine Maxwell Sex trafficking court trial, she was found guilty by the Jury. They had access to all the facts so I will accept their verdict. Televised court proceedings is very much the theme for 2021. 

No doubt people will have their minds set on improving their diet for 2022. I wouldn't be much help to them, I used to swallow the olive seed whole to get extra fiber, not sure it would work with an Avocado though, unless you wanted to turn your bum into a cannon. Someone said I should be a dietitian once, I don't think so 🧐.  

I lot of stuff is happening. It turns out the new Omicron variant of Covid19 is very mild, it is more like a flu than a pneumonia. I try to stay optimistic. 

Three Golf games

From time to time I will watch people play golf in virtual reality. There are 3 virtual reality golf games that I think are very nice. 

Golf + with Top golf  vid

Walkabout mini Golf vid

Golf 5 vid

When I eventually get my Occulus quest VR headset, I will get all three of those games first. There are other golf games on Occulus that have other quirks like realistic graphics and things like that. Those three will come first because I have been watching other people play them. 

The main quirks of playing golf in virtual reality is you can teleport to the ball. The weather is always good and you can play with your friends where ever they are in the world. Plus it costs nothing once you have purchased the game. 

Last Bit of December

It is the last bit of December, the last bit of 2021; the second half of the Pandemic. The world bought itself a new space telescope called 'James Webb'. It is more powerful than the Hubble one but it is heading out for deep space in a place that is out of reach for repair crews, it has to work well from day one. They want to look further back in time and see stars that existed billions of years ago. I also think they want to see exo planets directly. I will keep an eye on the NASA blogs and see what they have discovered. Nasa.gov Is one of my favourite sites. 

I can never get my head around any creation story in this world, they all seem hard to believe, both the scientific ones and the religious ones. 

What water was earmarked to fall as snow is falling as rain. There has been hardly any frost in the mornings. It is dark and damp and we are all dancing with inflation, we keep our chin up and stay hopeful that things will improve, at least the air is fresh, that is something to smile about. 

I am hopeful that my son will be happy in the 20s. That is all that matters now. I just want Jacob to be happy and make good friends and have many happy memories. Soon I will be able to have extended conversations with him and learn more about what he thinks. I will listen as much as possible. 

I watch videos of people playing golf in virtual reality and imagine doing the same in the near future. That is what I am like, I'm just a big kid. I remember happy times when I used to play roller coaster Tycoon on my desktop computer. I love playing games where you build things or try solve a puzzle. 

Be Happy. 

Telescope for Christmas

It was during Christmas 2021 that NASA had launched the James Webb Telescope in Space. The Telescope is a lot bigger than the Hubble Telescope and it can sample a bigger part of the spectrum. 

This Telescope will unfold when it is very far from Earth, about half way between the Earth and the moon. It can't be fixed by astronauts if it stops working because it will be outside the Earth's magnetic field so there is nothing to shield the astronauts from solar flare particles and radiation. When people went to the moon in the 70s, they didn't know about the danger of deep space radiation and the vital protection of the Earth's magnetic field; they didn't know they could have died in less than an hour if they were hit by a solar flare.

The reason they want to put a another telepscope in space is because the Earth's atmosphere blocks many parts of the light spectrum so we can't see most of the infra red light and ultra violet light from distant stars and galaxies. 

I wonder what they will see. 

Merry Christmas

It is Christmas now, about 8 hours from now I will have my Christmas drink and reflect on the life of Jesus Christ.  There is a Christmas for everyone.

You don't have to be a Christian to celebrate Christmas because it is about cheering yourself up when the days are the coldest and darkest. 

Jesus wasn't killed by Jews, He was killed by Roman soldiers and it was his mission to be killed and resurrected after 3 days so it doesn't matter who killed him. Jesus was a Jew himself. That is the sign of Jonah, to die for 3 days and then to be restored. 

One thing I often wonder is if previous angelic encounters in the Bible were a pre-carnate Jesus, Jesus before he was born as a man. Isaac's son Jacob was wrestling with an angel because he thought it was his estranged brother that had come to kill him. Perhaps that angel was actually Jesus. I don't know. 

Perhaps one of the angels that told 'Lot' to flee Sodom was Jesus, I may never know. 

The question is there. Perhaps Jesus walks amoungst us and talks to us to see what we would do. 

Christmas Egg

A few days ago, some guys discovered a fossilized Dinosaur egg with the 'chick' still inside preparing to hatch. I don't know how the creature died but they claimed the creature was in a posture that birds make when they are about to hatch from an egg. It won't be shelling out this Christmas, dry joke.  I forgot what the species of dinosaur it was. After all those millions of years it was waiting to hatch but will never be able to, it will just sit there in a display cupboard somewhere. 

I was thinking that one day the sun will become bloated and drag down the earth, the Earth will tumble into bloated Sun and no longer exist. There will be a time when the Earth doesn't exist; Everything we do now will be for nothing because our world will be no more. There will just be a dying bloated Sun and very little proof the Earth was ever there. 

Christmas Playlist top 5

These are my top 5 favourite Christmas music tracks for Christmas 2021. 

1) Felis Navidad (José Feliciano) 

2) Stay Another Day (East 17) 

3) Mistletoe and Wine (Cliff Richard) 

4) Mary's Boy Child( Boney M) 

5) From a distance/Christmas version (Bette Middler) 

I also like the Michael Bublé version of Feliz Navidad. The louder they are, the better they sound.

I think most people drink wine at Christmas because brandy is actually wine that has been boiled to remove some of the water and make the alcohol content stronger. 

Darkest Day

Today is the shortest day of the year or the longest day of the year depending on what side of the equator you are on. If you live near the equator, you probably won't notice anything. For me living on the north side of the earth it is the shortest day and longest night. Every day until the 21st of June will get longer. I think that is what Christmas was originally about. The 25th of December is the earliest time when ancient people could tell the days were getting longer so they realised the worst was over. 

The coldness and darkness can really mess with your head so we need a party to cheer ourselves up. I just window shop online stores and look at the products and look forward to my Christmas Drink. I still haven't decided whether I will drink a whiskey or Taquilla. Christmas is for everyone, the Christians are celebrating a belated birthday of Jesus, the Pagans are celebrating the winter solstice. The atheists are just cheering themselves up. Everyone else on this side of the planet is just celebrating because it is cold and dark and we don't want to be miserable. If you're an Emo than this weather must be perfect for you, dark and gloomy. 

I don't even want to think right now. I just want to chill out and think nothing for a short time. Just think about reading and watching interesting things for a while. 

Christmas Week

I was thinking a good way to use empty Amazon boxes would be to put an old broken appliance you don't want anymore in them and leave them on your door step for porch pirates to take away.. "Shiver mi broken printer mi hearties" 😂. If you stacked 4 or 5 of them up then it would get their attention. 

I was thinking about Omicron a bit, I have the impression from the South African medical experts that it is very mild, the virus spreads very quickly but it is less harmful than the Delta Strain. It is a mild nuisance and not much of a killer. I think the many leaders around the world are responding too much and making too many restrictions. 

I had quite a few random thoughts, I was debating in my head whether I should drink whiskey or Taquilla for my Christmas drink. I only drink alcohol twice a year. On my birthday in the middle of Summer and on Christmas in the middle of winter. The rest of the time I drink water and black coffee with no sugar.  

Christmas for everyone

There is a Christmas for everyone. Christmas was originally a party that Europeans would throw every year to cope with the cold dark winter days. They knew that the days were starting to get longer again on the 25th of December. The week before that, they days were getting shorter and nights were getting longer. It wasn't called Christmas in those days. Later on, the Christians decided to celebrate Jesus's birthday on the pagan festival, they renamed it Christmas. Christmas is about cheering yourself up when it is a cold and dark time of the year and if you want to have a belated celebration of Jesus' birthday than that is fine. I think he was actually born in spring. 

Christmas right now is like if Santa Claus flew down a large chimney and ended up in a nuclear reactor of a power station and said "Ho ho no no no". Then they get him out and he doesn't feel like delivering presents, they would say what has got in to you? He would say "Uranium 235". 

We are in the tail end of a Pandemic and dancing with inflation. Perhaps my Christmas drink this year should be a Taquilla. I really need some cheering up. 🍹🎅

Captain Boring

I tried out the Oculus Quest version 1 and a few other Virtual reality headsets not too long ago and was drawn to the Golf games. I must be very boring to most people. I wasn't interested in dancing with a robot and I don't want to have a boxing match with cyborg zombies on a distant moon Scape, I don't want to explore a scary house. I just want to play golf in virtual reality. People will ask me in the future why I have 10 golf games on my virtual reality headset and little else. I would say, one of them allows a panel to slide out and play neflix while you play golf. The other is adventure golf. I would say to cut a long story short, they are all different and have different quirks. They would then say, why don't you want to ride a roller coaster? I would say I am happy with the golf for now. The weather in VR golf is always nice, you can teleport to where the ball is straight away and the golf course is always available on tap.

Now the Oculus Quest 2 is available for £300. It would be nice if it comes with a walker thing, if my Facebook-ologist is reading this, could you plug an add for VR walking accessories or something like that? thanks. I would love to have a VR headset and walk on some kind of treadmill thing so I can walk freely in VR. I could use the teleport to ball function when I am tired and don't feel like walking. It would be nice to play golf and walk on the golf course in VR. 

Happy thoughts. 

Mid December

We are in the middle of December, A few weeks away from 2022. 

Google recently released Android 12. They didn't name it after a sweet food this time. The menus have a slight smooth animation and inherit the theme of the system; Android is more like Apple iPhone. I also think you have more control of the hardware on the phone. I think most of the improvements are invisible. The system uses the phones memory and micro processor more efficiently. I think it also runs apps better. Unfortunately I can't get android 12 with my current phone; it doesn't have enough storage memory. 

I am at a stage where I talk to machines every day. I talk to a smart speaker, I ask it to tell me the news and things like that or to turn things on. 

I think Omicron strain of Covid19 is mild compared to the other variants, it spreads more quickly but causes less harm. I thought to myself that it may act like a natural vaccine, like when people didn't get sick with small pox if they already caught cow pox. Who knows? It is our first winter with the Delta and Omicron strains. They both spread very quickly. Even flu does a lot of damage in winter. 

I keep my chin up for this Christmas. Last Christmas we were in lockdown and the previous Christmas we were caught up in a snap election with endless rain. I called the 2019 Christmas the damp political Christmas and Christmas 2020, the lockdown Christmas. Every Christmas I have my Christmas drink and forget about the long dark nights. 

Sci-Fi moon thought

One thing I often think about is if we could terraform the moon, make it like the Earth. At first it sounds silly, the moon is small and has almost no atmosphere. But then there is Titan, the Largest Moon of Saturn. It is a bit bigger than our moon but it has a very thick atmosphere, thicker than the Earth's. 

Titan sits inside Saturn's magnetic field so it is protected from the Sun's solar wind; high speed particles that strip away gass molecules. If the Earth's magnetic field stopped, the Earth would resemble the moon because the Sun's solar wind particles would strip away the atmosphere, then the ocean would boil at low temperatures like 10°c and the water vapour would also be stripped away by the Sun's solar wind. All that would be left is dry rocks and sand. They would be bleached by all the radiation and turn a charcoal grey colour. 

I often wonder if there was a way to cause the solar wind particles to crash into the moon instead of shooting over the surface and knocking off gass molecules. Perhaps the solar wind could become part of the moon's atmosphere. If the moon had protection from the high speed particles, it would grow an atmosphere very quickly because the gravity is very weak so the atmosphere would spread out more. Here on earth most of the atmosphere is crushed down close to the surface. The atmosphere of the moon would cause more meteors to colide with it because the bloated atmosphere would reach out very far above the surface like a giant fishing net. I'm not saying my thought is right, but it is just a thought. 

Just a harmless thought to keep my mind in a happy place. 🙂

Calm Down Britain

My fellow Brits are looking for Sleaze and Omicron's danger info.  

Recently Sleazy reports about government staff has been leaking out, it started with Dominic commings the government adviser that broke the lockdown rules and took his son to a relative's house during lockdown. Then we had the health secretary cheating on his wife in the office, he was doing the opposite the social distancing. Later we found out that an MP was lobbying for a company while he was in office and working for the company as director at the same time. The latest is a Christmas party when gatherings were banned.  Many Brits that I know of are frothing like an angry kettle, they are looking eagerly for a Sleaze report to emerge. 

As far as I know, the Omicron strain of Covid19 is mild, it spreads more quickly but causes less harm, perhaps it could act like a natural vaccine, like when people caught cow pox and didn't get sick with small pox. Who knows? The South Africans seem optimistic about it, they have less old people and it is summer over there, it is winter here, shorter days with less UV radiation from the Sun to kill virus particles. 

I wonder what will happen now.

Omicron and Sleaze

Right now, a topic that is very relevant is Hypocrisy, Sleaze and Omicron. We have been carefully observing the Omicron variant of Covid19 and have learnt that it is quicker than the Delata one. We have also learned that the vaccines still work on it. We don't know if Omicron is more deadly than Delta but we think it will be the dominant strain of Covid19 in the UK very soon. It is our first winter with both variants so it could be very challenging, we don't know. I don't look at viruses as evil things, I know that other viruses kill microbes that produce toxic chemicals; Those viruses are helping us to live. All viruses that I know of can't move, they are transmitted by the infected person. Once they have been ejected from our body, they just drift in the air and water like bits of dust.   

It was while we were learning about Omicron that we learned that the Government was accused of breaking their own lock down rules. They were accused of throwing a Christmas party when mixing in large groups was banned. The only evidence I saw was the Prime Minister (President) Boris Johnson having a Zoom video call with two colleagues that he works with every day, I was not convinced he was breaking his own rules. Some government staff from both parties were caught breaking the rules earlier in the year, all I will say is they were having escapades in their office and they were married. 

I can see why some people were angry, some people were fined thousands of £s for hosting Christmas parties. Others were treated like a nuisance and spend a short time in reprimand. Those people would definitely be watching the outcome of the investigation and feeling angry. 

The Brits are looking for more proof of Sleaze, will they find it? I don't know. 

Coffee Day

Jacob, My Son. 

You were born in Spring 2019, the theme at the time was the Brexit Deadlock. For 4 years after  Britain voted to leave the EU, Parliament couldn't decide how they will exit the European Union, some politicians wanted a clean break, others wanted us to stay in the common market, some politicians wanted us to cancel Brexit. Others wanted a trade deal before leaving. Every time 'Therasa May' got an exit deal from the EU, it was rejected in parliament. When you were born, she thought she wasn't making progress and quit soon after. 

In your first summer, Boris Johnson took over as Prime Minister (President) of the UK. He got a deal and fired all the MPs in his party that didn't accept it and appointed new Candidates that did accept it. Then he talked parliament into having a snap election in Christmas. In Christmas 2019 everyone in the country knew that all the Conservative candidates would accept the exit deal so the 'Conservative' Party won most of the seats in Parliament. In the start of 2020 there was a Corona virus outbreak in China, they called it Covid19. By Spring 2020 it had become a Pandemic infection. Despite the world being sick, Parliament signed the exit deal and the UK was no longer a part of the EU trading block. 

5 Strange Years

In 2016 a lot of strange things were happening, firstly many celebrities started dying; George Michael, David Bowie, David Guest and Prince to name a few. Then we had a referendum in the UK to choose if we leave the EU. The United Kingdom as a whole voted to leave. Later that year, Donald Trump was elected in America, he was also against trading blocks, political unions, and soft borders.  

I got Married in November 2016. 

For five years the UK couldn't decide how they will leave, some leaders wanted a second referendum. Others wanted to cancel Brexit, some wanted us to be part of the common market and leave the political union, some of them wanted a clean break with a follow up deal later. Parliament was pulling itself in different directions for 4 years. It got particularly bad in 2019, they were rejecting all the exit deals and amendments and no party had full control of the house of commons. The Conservatives were in a coalition with the DUP (Democratic Unionist Party) to keep control of Parliament, a big compromise in my view. Then a New group of conservative leaders stepped up with a very clear agenda and gained a majority in parliament with a snap election in Christmas 2019. 

Then a Pandemic came along and caused chaos to the whole world. Supply chains were disrupted during that time and many people couldn't work or trade. Inflation and civil unrest became the norm during that time. Many people were killed by the virus itself. 

What will happen now? I don't know. 

Nearest Star

The Wikipedia online encyclopedia is my favourite website at the moment. It is a free to use service, I think they should try and sell merchandise to keep their funding secure. I have learnt a lot from it over the years. I was reading about the 'Alpha Centauri' star system. They are 3 stars that are all orbiting their common center of gravity, they are the closest stars to us, they are like a family. The Alpha Centauri star that is closest to us is called 'Proxima Centauri'. The two Centauri stars that are further away 'Centauri A' and 'Centauri B' are much bigger than Proxima Centauri. 

Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star and the star that is closest to us. It is the smallest star in the Centauri 3 star system. It is so dim that you need a telepscope to see it, even though it is the nearest star to us. 

When I read things like that, I get many thoughts in my head. If a star is so dim that a planet has to be  tidally locked to have a warm climate then what about planets that are much better a trapping heat. What would a Venus like planet be like orbiting Proxima? I thought that if a planet can trap more heat than it realeases then it could still be further away. 

What do you think of Proxima Centauri and it's two companion stars? This is the article... Proxima Centauri

Virus Irony

I thought it is ironic that viruses help us to breathe and keep us alive yet they kill us. Viruses kill most of the bacteria in the ocean that produce toxic gases like Ammonia and Methane. If all the viruses magically disappeared, the air would very quickly become toxic and breathing would be impossible. 

It is also ironic that the Covid19 virus can't move, breathe, or consume anything yet it spread to every part of the earth. It doesn't even have DNA, it uses RNA. RNA is like one unzipped half of the DNA molecule and uses the same code except the Thymine is replaced by Uracil, not sure why though. Our cells make RNA when it reads the DNA. The Covid19 virus is just RNA code. 

Covid19 viruses can't move, they are only alive when they are inside the cell so all the movement is done by the infected person. It is spread by our bodies and can't move, when the sun shines, the UV rays destroys most of the virus particles in the air so it spreads better in the winter when the days are shorter.

The virus particles can't even get into the cells on their own. The ends of their spike proteins look like sugar molecules so the cell pulls the virus in because it thinks it is sugar. 

Sugar Pretender

The simplest life form on Earth has brought so much chaos to our lives. Covid19 is even simple compared to other viruses, it is coded with RNA and not DNA. RNA is like a DNA molecule that has been pulled in half. It is a representation of one side of a DNA molecule. It is a fiber with instructions. 

I was wondering what the cell thinks the spike protein is on a Corona virus, I recently learned that the tip of the spike on Covid19 resembles sugar. The virus gets pulled into the cell because the cell thinks it is sugar. The Covid19 virus pretends to be sugar. 

The Pizza meal

A common thing that happens in this time period is pizza restaurants will post paper brochures of their meal offers through the door. 

I know that I can get change from a fiver for supermarket pizzas but I love to look at the offers anyway. They make the product look so good and appealing. Pizzas are full of salt and I love salty food when it is cold. I also like spicy food. I like pizzas with black olives and jalapenos. They come with sides and a drink. That is what I love, to watch a film on TV and each junk food.

What November 2021 means to me

I will remember November as the month when there were several high profile court cases and when Barbados removed the British Queen as head of state to became a Republic. It was also the time when we became aware of the Omicron variant of Covid19. 

There was several high profile court cases this month, the two that stood out were Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking charge and Kyle Rittenhouse gun murder trial. He was acquitted based on a self defence plea that was proven true according to the jury. I was in two minds about the verdict, I thought those two men didn't need to die, they didn't even have guns, however the video footage clearly shows him being attacked and then firing his gun. He made me feel old, while I was shocked by the 9 11 attacks and worried about the millennium bug, Kyle Rittenhouse was just and egg sitting in this mum's torso waiting to exist. Young people think they know everything and they don't, he probably thinks the police force are infallible and weapons can solve problems in the right hands and things like that, a one sided mind of a young man. 

The island nation of Barbados declared themselves a republic after they removed the British Queen as head of state, I understand they are still part of the commonwealth and we will be friends with the nation. I wish them all happy peaceful lives and good times. 

A new variant of Covid19 was detected and alarmed everyone because the spike protein on the virus mutated so it was more difficult for antibody proteins to latch onto it, so the current vaccines may not be very effective, we don't know just yet. They gave it the name Omicron, Covid19 - Omicron. 

December looked grim for family leisure this year so we tried to go on many day trips while we had time off from work. My thoughts were normal, trying to think of ways to make my family's life a bit better and simplify life. 

I keep my chin up for December and 2022.