Betelgeuse Detonation

 The giant Star Betelgeuse  is at the end of its life and is about to detonate into a supernova?  I was wondering what would happen to the companion star when it does. They recently discovered there is a smaller star about the size of the sun orbiting it. I wonder if the debris from the star detonation would add to the mass of the companion star. I also wonder if it could go from being a red dwarf star to being an orange or yellow dwarf one. Do companion stars do that when they're near a supernova? It's also possible that Betelgeuse has already detonated but the light hasn't reached earth yet. 

On the NASA Website, they mentioned that the Japanese space agency were using the international Space station to launch a satellite, it will last for 4 months and then burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. They left hollow spaces inside the satellite to add trash to the satellite so when it burns up, it burns up the rubbish from the space station, empty food containers and things like that. The same bay was also used to bring supplies. They said they used a robot arm called the Canada arm to launch the satellite. 

Chain Reaction

Everything in this world is a very very long chain reaction. The term people often coin is the word butterfly  effect, the theory that something as small as flap of butterflies wings could trigger a hurricane elsewhere. 

An example I would give is you read a book and it talks about a place that is nice to go on holiday. You got the book from a charity shop because a coloured glass was placed in the window and it caught your attention, you decide to get the mystery book instead of the glass. 

You go on holiday to the place mentioned in the book and you see a bakery that sells quiche as an extra line and think it is a good idea and that causes you to set up your own bakery. Then two customers meet in your bakery and they start a relationship and have a family and children. 

The question would be, if the charity shop keeper decided not to put the coloured glass in the shop window, would all the other events not happen, do they hinge on that one event? 

Reaching Out

I learnt recently that the James Webb Space telescope has discovered a new moon going around the planet Uranus, it is about the size of an average sized city : 11km across, they haven't given it an official name yet. I was given the impression it is like seeing a 5p coin from 5 kilometres away, it is very small compared to the distance. Amid all the chaos going on in the world these days, there is a small parcel of peace and insight, an innocent search for discovery that is ongoing. 

There was a set back with NASA's new Orion Space Rocket, the most powerful vehicle on earth, they sent it back to the hanger to do repairs. They're reaching out to the moon again just like they did with the Apollo space missions but now the missions are called Artemis, the vehicle can lift more weight because it has 4 rs 25 thrusters and external boosters. It is like a hybrid of the space shuttle and Saturn 5. To me it is what a space ship would look like if those two rockets were merged together. You could say it has the best of both. B.O.B. 

I noticed gaming companies are reaching out to other companies to collaborate. Bethesda were working with zen studios to make themed tables for their iconic first person shooters, half life, doom and Skyrim. They are also collaborating with Blase entertainment to release a classic edition of doom for the evercade. 

I think there is a collaborate or die ethos in today's world. The commercial winners reach out and collaborate with separate companies when they can to get a burst of revenue. 

What an amazing world we live in. Reach out. 

AI Encyclopedia

Recently I learnt that X-ai had produced an online  encyclopedia that was produced and edited by Artificial intelligence. They called it Grokipedia. 

https://grokipedia.com/. The advantage of using an ai generated encyclopedia is the machine doesn't have opinions or bias, it just looks for the truth and the facts and presents them the way they should be shown. It's not infallible but it strives for the truth and factual parity. 

I have been on Wikipedia and it would label politicians and activists they didn't like as far right, a label for Natzis and people like that. It would remove some of the information about the person that shows them in a good light. People editing some of the articles on there would allow their opinions to effect the way they prepare the article. This bias would make the online encyclopedia unreliable, I would go to Britannica to compare articles so check for accuracy. 

In my world, it has become normal to talk to machines. I ask my smart speaker at home to tell me the news, it recognises my voice and adds my name to its greeting. I ask my phone to increase the brightness level if the sun's rays smears the screen. I ask both devices  to set an alarm depending on where I am. Every day I'm talking to a machine, to me that is amazing. When I was a kid I would see people talking to the ship's computer on the star Trek show; it's not sci-fi anymore, it is reality. 

What February 2026 Means To Me

The Significant events for February was the release of the Epstine files and the Iran people's war. 

When the American government made documents from their investigation of the Epstine scandal public, the plot thickend. We learnt more about people's involvement and relationship with the disgraced financier. He set himself up as a middle man for the rich and famous, he would bring people together, he would coordinate collaborations but he would also pimp children for sex and abuse young girls. 

Prince Andrew was arrested for misconduct in office for sharing state secrets with Epstine as was Peter Mandleson. There was consequences for their actions. 

Sometimes its wonderful being a nobody, no one can wonder if I'm involved because I never knew him. Isn't that wonderful, the clarity never being involved in any way, not even through innocent business. 

The American and Israelis attacked Iran, I'm not sure if it was because they wanted to detonate a nuclear bomb on Israel or because civilians were being murdered for protesting, perhaps it was a bit of both. 

It's sad that any nation in this world can make nukes. How long will our luck last before someone finally detonates one. 

End of February

Spring came early during the middle of February onwards; I saw daisies sprouting out of the grass verges on the road. 

The Epstine files dominated the news. Everyone wanted to know what was happening on Epstine Island and what involvement each person had. The more I learn about the Epstine files the more low my view of humanity goes. The plot thickens every day. 

I saw that someone had defaced the Winston Churchill statue again. I didn't like Winston Churchill myself because he bullied the disgruntled workers that were going on strike because their pay didn't increase with inflation but I respected him. He was very brave and chose the difficult route during world war II. He was a hero to the nation and stood up to the Natzi onslaught. I don't get it when people do stuff like this. 

Finally at the last part of the month Ayatollah Ali Khomeini passed away because he was caught up in the air strikes on Iran. The Iranian people seemed to be happy with his death. They were celebrating his end. 

I often wondered what it would be like to make a bar table in a man cave that was glass and had a trainset inside it; wouldn't that be so cool. You could build all the little model buildings around the train set and collect different trains with the same gauge. 

Clock Tower Projector

It's not easy being a man; the other day I sat down next to an old lady on a small bench and she was terrified of my presence, it made me feel awkward. I don't know if women know this but a lot of men have considerable depth to them. They have lots of deeper thoughts about things and they're plassid, simply heading out to their duties or heading home. My head was filled with useless thoughts about things that are interesting to me. 

A dominant thought that lingered in my head was a projecter clock tower. If I had a man cave I would build a 2 meter tall clock tower to be the housing for a projector of a mini cinema. 

The man cave would be L shaped with a small area that is dressed up as a cinema with an array of recliners as seats. The projector clock tower would have a small hole in the side of it for the projector beam to exit it. The cinema area would be partially partitioned from the rest of the man cave by display cabinets and the projector clock. The projector clock would also be a housing for games consoles and a TV player. 

I think the reason the thought lingered so long is because I feel like I can build it myself. I would screw wooden panels together and attach a clock face to the top part of it. One side of the clock tower would have a panel with hinges attached to it so it can be opened like a door. Then I can add detailing, fake slate stickers to make it look like a tower, gold trim and artwork. 

The whole man cave would be a happy place, you walk in and forget about the world outside for a while and play with all the toys. Arcade machines and things like that. 

Thoughts don't have to be useful, if only useful thoughts were in our heads, we would be robots instead of people. 

Prince Arrested

I learnt a few days ago that prince Andrew was arrested on his birthday for the suspicion of misconduct in office. He suspected of giving out sensitive information about Britain's trade plans to his friends. 

He wasn't arrested for raping an under age girl. I'm guessing because she didn't press charges and the alleged crime happened overseas where they are responsible for their own laws. 

He is known to stay in contact with Jeffrey Epstine after he was exposed as a pedophile so he has been on the public radar for a few years. He claims he met up with him for honerable closure or something  like that. 

I always thought King Charles was the nicer of the two brothers, he is focused on his hobbies and his duties and doesn't seem to get involved in things like that. I was also given the impression that the former prince Andrew was often quite rude and arrogant around people. It's a good job Charles is the older one. 

Be a Patriot

There's nothing wrong with caring about your country and nation in my view. There is a list of things you can do to be a patriot. 

1) Don't be a litter bug. I believe there is a negative butterfly effect caused when people drop litter on the floor. If someone was a tourist and saw a small pile of rubbish on the floor they could return to their homeland and tell their friends that England is a dirty disorderly place and that would put off other tourists from visiting. The other problem would be rats, you could help to cause outbreaks of a disease and things like that. 

2) Visit Piers from time to time. One thing that makes the Island of Great Britain special is we have a very high concentration of piers for our size. If you go on a day trip to the coast, visit the pier knowing the toll they charge or the money from a cup of tea will go towards maintaining and improving the pier. Have a coffee or Tea sitting on a Pier. 

3) Buy British:  If you can, buy things that are made in Britain. Buy tomatoes that are grown on British farms, buy t-shirts that are made in British factories. 

4) Be Nice: it will cause a ripple of goodness that will spread through the country. You don't have to do favours for people, you can just return a greeting or not have an angry outburst when someone making you feel impatient. 

5) Know our good history. We did bad things in the past but we also did good things that should merit some pride. Some people only want to talk about the bad things Brits did in the past. There are countless  innovations and medical breakthroughs that occurred right here in Britain. The world condems slavery because of Britain and we pioneered democracy. 

Random Thoughts

I was laying down in my bed the other day thinking what is the point of everything, we are here for now then we are gone. I guess the answer is not to think about it because you'll never get the full answer, you'll have to wait until God tells you or you may never get an answer.

There's always some depth to a person, you can lay down and think about life for a little while and ask questions that can never be answered and be alone in your thoughts. In that place you're alone but that's fine. 

I was wondering what trains would be like if I was in control of their design; I especially think about pier trains because they don't need to be fast. I would make the train look very beautiful with thin marquees that detach from the body of the train so it can look as good as new on a regular basis.  

I was looking at the evercade alpha the other day, I think it would be a good idea if it had a riser so it could be played without being set down on a desk or table. Playing computer games is my thing. 

Perapsid

Many people know there was three dinosaur periods or they know there was a dinosaur era, they think of Tyrannosaurus Rex and Sauropods. They think of the mountain sized astroid that toppled the food chain and killed off the dinosaurs. 

I was wondering why people don't know there were beasts that roamed before the dinosaurs, they were called the Permian Synapsids. They were reptiles that had mammal like attributes, they had jaw bones that had mussle fibers that link inside the skull through an opening behind the eye socket, they had squared off heads and were good at controlling their body temperature, some off them had thrills on  their back to help heat up their bodies when they were cold. A lot of them were able to lift their bodies away from the floor so they could run more efficiently. Perhaps they even had four chambered hearts, who knows. 

I think they should abbreviate the name, call them Perapsids (Permian Synapsids). The Perapsids went extinct because many strong volcanoes erupted in tandom for a long time and made it hard for plant life to live, the whole earth turned into a wet dessert. The food chain collapsed and by the end of the Permian period 90% of all species were extinct. 

If the name Perapsid sticks, you read it hear first. 

Pride in England

One thing I proud of in England is our piers, we have many of them, I think just about every significant coastal town in this nation has a pier. They are a labour of love, the salty sea arosole spray from the waves is very corrosive. The coast is very windy and some of them have been restored after burning  down. I think one of the most patriotic things a Brit can do is visit a pier, they usually charge you for going on them and use the money to maintain it and improve it. That is what it is about, seeing how far it can be improved and maintained. 

I visited Southend pier recently, I noticed their new electric pier trains have been set aside because they're considered to be unsafe and they brought back the older diesel powered trains. They're investigating why the trains are faulty. 

I guess sometimes things are so messed up it is easier just to rebuild it from scratch. Sometimes the complexity of a fix can lead to all sorts of problems. 

It would also be nice if there was more stuff do do at the end of the pier, a small amusement park or an arcade or two. 

Epstine Effect

I was wondering earlier if the name Geoffrey would be out of use in 50 years from now, if it were, would people wonder why? They would say it is an old name and nothing else because they have forgotten about the Epstine scandal. I don't think most people would give their new born baby the name Geoffrey these days because Geoffrey Epstein was exposed as a pedophile and child pimp. He used his wealth to buy an island and turned it into a brothel for under aged sex slaves. It was a big disgrace, it is still relevant today because he set himself up as a supreme middle-man and money expert, he would look after rich and famous people's assets and help them to increase their wealth. He was connected to everyone so people would approach him to reach out to other famous people, for example, a music band may want to collaborate with another music band at a concert and they know they can reach them through him. 

Many prestigious people were connected to him, some of them innocently through trade, others may have been involved with his scandals. The test they use is if they cut him off when he was exposed as a pedophile. They Coined the term Epstine files. The authorities want to know what kind of relationship each person had with Geoffrey Epstein, were they innocent aquatences or part of his dirty lifestyle? 

I'm not even sure if I'll still be alive in 50 years time. If I am still alive, I wonder if coin pushers are still around in arcades. They are my favourite toy in those places. This is how they work; you drop coins down a chute, the coin lands on a tray and is pushed into other coins by an oscillating pusher, if your timing is right and with some luck you dislodge some of the coins and they fall into a lower tray. Then a second pusher pushes the dislodged coins into more coins, if they fall then they go down another chute to an exit tray for you to take them or use them again They like to keep little prizes nested on top of the coins on the lower tray.  I like the ones that also give you prize tickets when the coins land in certain places or at random times just for inserting the coins. You can redeem the prize tickets for prizes at the prize counter desk. 

I can already see the it evolving, I see pushers that use balls and things like that. 

The effect of playing a coin pusher is similar to playing Tetris or a puzzle game, you forget about your ego, you forget who you are and what is important to you and you just focus on what you are doing. You go into a blissful trance like state. 

Iron and Lead thought

I learnt not to long ago that when the Earth formed, all the iron sank down deep into the interior of the planet out of our reach. All the iron that is with us on the surface fell down to earth after planets collided and were obliterated. The iron in your blood and on the knife and fork on your table would have come from the core of a planet that was demolished in a collision with another planet. When it fell to earth the surface of the planet had hardened.

 

Everything that has the mass of Iron or more like copper and lead was created or freed in an extremely energetic event. Lead is mostly created when radioactive materials decayed, they slowly decayed until they reached a stable configuration as lead. 

I think of home and my world all the time but it was made possible by big events. 

Dirty thought

I had a dirty thought earlier today, I thought about an alternative way to deal with sewage. It is a thought I often have. In an alternative Alan-world, sewage would flow into evaporation chambers that have a partial vacuum that is low enough to lower the boiling point of water to 10°c. The lower the air pressure is, the lower the boiling point is. The water would just boil away until all the water vapour is pumped out and the sewage is dry. I drew a simplified diagram of what happens. 

The dry sewage would then pour out into an incinerator. The incinerator would burn up all the dry sewage. The heat from the burning dry sewage would power the pump that lowers the air pressure of the evaporation chamber and all the other parts of the area. The ashes of the burnt sewage would then be sent to a sorting area to separate the different grains. Some of the grains would be hard and dense like limestone deposits, others would be soft and soluble like carbon powder. There would even be minerals that are turned to a glass like substance because of the heat from the incinerator. 

The hard and dense grains would be gathered and placed into drones that fly over the coast, they would drop the hard dense ashes in coastal areas that are having problems with sea erosion. The deposits would build up until small islands appear and they would have gardens growing on them. When storms emerge, the little islands take most of the punishment. 

The softer grains would be used to make bricks and roads, they would be mixed with cement to make concrete slabs that can be exported. 

Someone said my ideas are crap once, I think they're onto something. 

Sewage Day Dream

For an ordinary man like myself a day dream about something I can't do is constructive. It can help me sleep when I'm worried about something. 

I imagined taking control of a sewage treatment centre and having a building assembled that causes a vacuum that make the sewage boil at ambient temperatures. The dry sewage would then be sent to an incinerator to be burnt. The ashes of the burnt dry sewage would be a mixture of things gypsum, lime stone fragments, carbon powder and things like that. 

The heavy insoluble fragments would be separated from the ashes and droped by the coast from drones. It would help small islands to form that could have wild gardens on them. The islands would help protect the coast during a storm. The rest of the burnt sewage would be mixed with sand and plastic to make bricks and concrete slabs. 

This is a common thought I often have in my mind and it causes a peace inside of me. 

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. 

Winter Lights

I went to Canary Wharf yesterday to see the winter lights. They call it a warf but it is no longer used as a dock and the whole river peninsula is developed but I guess the name stuck. Canary wharf is a river peninsula filled with tall office buildings. 

Canary Wharf is a bit like the Vatican in a way, it is like a city within a city. All the buildings on the peninsula are tower blocks filled with modern glass windows and offices. London is a city with little island cities embedded within it. The lights were nice and it was very crowded, I guess that helped break up the cold winter breeze.  Perhaps the whole country should put winter lights out for the last third of January. 

In the back of my mind is the sadness of knowing people in Iran were being murdered for protesting. They were doing nothing wrong, they were just tired of their dictator leader using all their oil wealth for their own agenda and being suppressed by the regime. Some of them were just children. When will it end? Will I still be writing out this struggle next month? Who knows? Imagine if a nation like Japan had the same oil reserves as Iran, they would have built some beautiful cities and all sorts of wonders. Perhaps they would have a moon base by now. 

See it Different

I think it is ok to look at the world differently to the way society presents it as long as you accept that society as chosen their verdict. When I was younger I always thought the world was upside down, they showed me a globe where the arctic ocean is the top of the world and the continent of Antarctica is at the bottom. The Earth's magnetic field spurts out of south pole and dives back down at the north pole so a compass is attracted to the south poll but the arrow head faces the north. If it was my choice the globe would be flipped over so the continent of Antarctica is the top of the Earth and the frozen arctic ocean is the bottom. It doesn't matter, society has made their verdict, I go with the flow. 

When I shave in the morning, I think of Cashew nuts because my skin is what I describe as cashew-biege in colour, but society says my skin is white like plain paper or toothpaste. That's fine. Society has made a verdict. I stick with it. 

Everything  would work differently if I was in control but I'm not so that is just fine. Life is too short to care. 

Noah Days

If I would label this time period I would call it the noah Days because the attitude of the people fits like a glove. There is widespread hate and wickedness throughout mankind and people are doing nasty things to others as a routine duty. 

I hear reports of ordinary people being shot in Iran for protesting and then being shot again in the head while they're in hospital. I see people here accusing a small nation of genocide then being silent when these atrocities are reported, why?  Because their hatred causes selective outrage. 

I can't do anything about it accept to report the truth as far as I know it. 

All the routines happen  as a normal despite evil deeds happening around the world.

I can only tell the truth and distract myself, play computer games, read science blogs and look at things on online shops without buying them, watches and things like that. 

Sometimes I just think about things that are beautiful to me like one day being able to dry out sewage burn it up and use the insoluble portion of the ashes to build defensive islands to stop  coastal erosion in Britain. Some of the particles in the sewage would be useful in other ways,  there could be metal fragments left behind in the burnt sewage ashes and they could be recycled.

Elizabeth Line Trip

Yesterday I rode on an Elizabeth line train for the first time. The line opened in 2022 but I never got around to trying it. That's partly because I don't live in London and partly because I didn't need to go to the destinations it stops at. 

It's nice to see a metro train in London that uses overhead AC power lines; most of the London mass transit lines were running before the Yugoslavian-American inventor called Nicola Tesla invented AC power transmission so they stuck with direct current. (Yugoslavia fragmented into several smaller countries in the '90s, Kosovo Serbia and places like that). In those days it was probably easy to be a news broacaster because there was always something happening. These days they have to talk about tap water privatisation for 2 hours or things like that. They can lul a professor to sleep sometimes. 

The train is very cool, it is open plan and spacious with lots of low hanging handles for those that can't find a seat. I was surprised the station platforms didn't have much benches, I thought it would be a good idea to put seating benches up against every stretch of wall in the station so people can sit down while they wait for a train. I also found it difficult to see the map of the line inside the train but that's no big deal. It was a bit too crowded for me, I never imagined it would be so popular. It certainly helps relieve crowding on the other lines. 

I learnt that the tfl charging cap goes up if you go from Heathrow airport on an Elizabeth line train because they have to use some of a private railway's tracks. 

Small and Useful

Yesterday I learnt that on the 11th of January they didn't just send the small Pandora Satellite into space, NASA also sent up two smaller cube satellites that are just 30cm across; they would literally fit into a shopping bag. 

Not only did they get the size of the space probes down, they got the transport costs down. They approached spaceX to build a reusable space rocket. SpaceX built the falcon space rockets, they go up to space, then the rocket parts land safely on docking stations to be reused again. NASA wisely approached private companies to make space vehicles so they can get the cost down. 

The pandora space probe is smaller than a person but it is capable of looking at stars when their planets transit between us and them and working out what light rays are from the planet's atmosphere and what parts are from the star. The point of pandora is to help make decisions for the James Webb space telescope because it is so busy, it is hard to decide what places to look into and what areas to neglect. If the chemicals in the planets atmosphere are interesting, they will get the very busy James Webb telescope to take a closer look. 

The two smaller cube satellites are Blackcat and sparks, they will look at black holes and also study solar flares of low mass stars. 

Pandora Box Iran

There is a lot of chaos going on in Iran right now, when a catastrophe like that happens in the world, some of the good news gets fogged out of sight. This is certainly true of the new NASA mission that just started called Pandora. 

The pandora space probe was launched last week on the falcon 9 spaceX rocket. That is the way they're heading these days, they like to contract private companies to make the space vehicles for them, they don't want to develop it themselves; I call it space privatisation. 

The pandora space probe has been fine tuned to look at the atmospheres of planets outside of our solar system to see if there are volatile gases present. Chemicals that don't persist without being renewed by an ongoing reaction. Here on earth we have oxygen in our atmosphere, life forms need to top it up all the time because it reacts with other chemicals so it won't persist in its form.  The same is true of ammonia and things like that. They don't persist, they need to be topped up by processes or life forms. It will be interesting to see what they find. 

I like the fact that a lot of the discoveries they make are open to the public. Ordinary people like myself can look at their findings for free and learn something new every day. 

Potatoes and Heat

Jacket potatoes taste better when they're roasted in the oven than in the microwave because the heat slowly roasts them from the outside. The microwave causes the potatoes to heat up from inside out. In winter I don't care too much about the oven being used because the heat is used twice, it cooks the food and helps to heat up the home. The thing I was wondering was. 

How long does the heat stay there? The heat energy is transmitted from molecule to molecule but it doesn't move in a straight line, some of the heat energy would zig zag and even travel back into the oven from the edge of the room. The way I look at it is energy released in the core of the sun slowly moves from the core to the sun's surface, the journey can take millions of years because the photons don't go in the straight line, they bounce from molecule to molecule in a tangled random route, when the photon finally gets to the sun's surface, it takes just 8 Minutes to move across space to our planet. I thought similar things would happen with an oven, some of the heat released travels around the room for 2 or 3 years before finally leaving the room; most of the heat would escape in less than 2 hours but a tiny.portion of the heat energy would remain there, perhaps 0.00001 % would still be there a year later. 

Why Protest?

One thing that puzzles me is why people would continue to protest about the Nick Maduro detainment when so many Venezuelan people are celebrating his capture. The people they're calling victims of trump are throwing parties and celebrating the removal of a dictator. A guy that frames his political opponents and gets them sent to prison so he guarantees his victory, and a guy that tanked the venezualan economy so hard that half of them had to leave the country to stay alive. Well, a lot of things don't make sense to me, even in my little world. 

When cold air touches my skin, my taste pallet changes and I like the taste of sour and salty food, I also like spicy food. Even slightly bitter tasting fruits like cranberries and pickled gherkins taste better to me when it is cold. 

I also like to cook my jacket potatoes in the oven instead of microwave, when you cook jacket potatoes in the oven the heat goes through the potatoes from the outside and makes oils and butter you put on them turn crispy and tasty, you don't get that with a microwave because most of the heat appears inside the potato. When it is cold, I don't worry about heat being applied twice as long because it gets used twice, I can cook all my root vegetables in the oven knowing the heat used by the oven would be used twice because it would seep out of the oven and heat up the air in the kitchen and some of that heat would spread around the home. 

Pride in England

One of the things that makes feel proud of my country is we abolished global slavery. The forced slavery of people is illegal in most of the world because of Britain. 

People like William Wilberforce campaigned in parliament to make it illegal to buy and sell people as slaves and force them to work for free. We opened our mind and decided it is wrong to use people as slaves, all people should have the same rights. When we abolished the slave trade, all nations that were part of the empire inherited the law and automatically declared the trade of slaves as piracy. Then we used our huge navy to intercept slave boats from nations that weren't a part of the British Empire so we blocked slave ships from entering the ports of Brazil. 

In the 17th century, every nation on Earth had a significant slave population, it wasn't just the Portuguese dominated Atlantic slave trade, it was the middle east, Asia and many African nations had their own slave trade. Britain abolished all of that using democracy and our powerful navy. 

The most common payer in Britain is to ask God that his will be done. It looks like the prayer was answered because although there is still a lot of illegal slavery, the world at large condemns it. 

What December 2025 Means To Me

Throughout December there was very little frost in the mornings, the weather was strange for that time of the year in Britain. Some trees were confused and started to open their flowers as if it were spring because roughly in the middle of the month the temperature increased to 10°C during the day time. 

I saw some Iranian men protesting in London a few times. They were holding up the old Iranian flag with the golden lion holding a sword and partially eclipsing the sun on the horizon; it was the flag that identified the nation before the Iamist ayatollah regime took control of the country at the end of the '70s.  They were making their intentions very clear to everyone, they want the regime to end and the king to return. Later I saw the protests were widespread in that country. They were sick of the leader spending all the countries wealth arming militant groups and spreading hate about Israel, the infrastructure of the country has not improved since 1980 and they were now facing very high inflation and supply issues. 

There was also a lot of tension between USA and Venezuela, the USA were demanding suspicious boats identify themselves and then firing missiles at the boats when they didn't respond. They were trying to shut off the drugs entering the country I think. 

Just the other Day I learned that the Americans captured Nick Maduro himself and the venesualan people seemed happy about that. I was given the impression that he sends his opposition candidates to jail so he could fix his terms in power.  He also seized the large service companies like the internet and oil producers and ran them into the ground like a typical communist would. 

Let's keep our chins up for 2026. Happy times for a while? Who knows? Whatever will be, will be.