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. 

Nuclear doom

I looked on Twitter and the news the other day and noticed that President Trump was arguing with Kim Jong Un about who's nuclear attack button is more dangerous. Really? I thought. Is this real? Are these men going to blow up the planet? Why can't ordinary people be the world's leaders? If I wake up one day and everything is blowing up, I will not be surprised. It is not North Korea and America that worries me. It is the ability of any nation on this planet to make nuclear weapons. As more and more nations aquire nukes, the danger increases. You only need one fool to start a war. 

If you are reading this in the distant future and you are an alien or robot race that has destroyed mankind and you are studying our media records. I would ask you, why all that effort? If you waited a while mankind would have destroyed itself. We are fools, and if we don't change we have a grim future. How hard is it not to go to war or threaten other nations?

I am grateful world war 3 hasn't started and may never start and stay hopeful for a bright future, not too bright though.