Clyde Cheerman | Bottle of Water

Clyde Cheerman the cheer up Robot approached Alan and said "Alan, Why did you give me the name Clyde"? 

Alan : "Well, I used the wrong batteries, so when I first turned you on it took a long time for you to come out of your box and that reminded me of another robot I used to play with in a game of cat and mouse called Pacman. 

Clyde : "Oh, Ok... What is a borall of woraa"?

Alan :  "borall of woraa"? 

Clyde: "I went to the hospital to cheer everyone up and this man shouted ~ Oi, give me a borall of woraa". 

Alan :  "I think he meant, excuse me, can I have a bottle of water". 

Clyde: "Why didn't he just say that?" 

Alan :  "He's a Londoner Clyde, they talk like that". 

Clyde : "Ok, I see". 

Alan : "Maybe it would be easier for you to cheer people up in Newcastle or Birmingham"?

Spring tension

It is spring and there is quite a lot of international tention at the moment, excuse the pun. President Biden and Putin were arguing about moral fabric and murder. 

My view is that they are both Human and probably doing what they think is the right thing; we all live on the same planet so we need to cooperate and live in peace, that is the right thing. 

I imagined it would be more difficult to cooperate and be in harmony if we met aliens from another planet. Everything we say and do could be misinterpreted as a threatening gesture. 

We could look at the face of and alien and smile at them but a smile may not have a meaning to them because they can't smile so it is just a movement that makes no sense in their view. Perhaps you could give them flowers and they would think that you are giving them dead plants so you are warning them that you will use violence. Even a hand shake or a wave could be seen as a threat. Or perhaps the aliens get in your space and growl at you as way of showing respect and peace not knowing that humans would see that as a threat. 

They may think that our maps are upside down. They may see the south pole as the top of the planet and see everything differently. Different views can cause mistrust. 

They would not trust us, we would not trust them. The only way they would trust us is if we were both telepathic; in my view music gives us simple telepathy because our mind set is similar when we listen to music, but that is not enough. We would need true telepathy.

Spring and DNA

It is true Spring now. I think of metal springs when I think of Spring, this is because they are both spelt the same. When I think of Springs, I think of DNA because they both have a helix shape. Then I try to imagine how the nano protein machines that read the DNA work but I fail. I know roughly what they do though. I know that a nano protein machine pulls the DNA strand in half down the middle like zip, then a nano protein machine reads one side of the DNA molecule. The DNA reading machine makes a mirror of the DNA called RNA. The RNA strand resembles the half of the DNA except the Thymine Molecules are replaced with Uracil. 

Uracil doesn't work with DNA and Thymine doesn't work with RNA, I don't know why. That is another question I will leave for Aged Alan to answer. I imagined that one chromosome of DNA contains thousands of Gene sequences so every time it is read, it rains RNA strands inside the cell from the middle outwards in all directions. The RNA strands are instructions that tell other protein machines what to do, like how to make more protein machines out of Amino acids or what speed to run at and how to make cell membranes, things like that. 

Two Thirds of March

It is two thirds the way through March and we are in true spring. Next week the clocks go forward. 

The landmark events that occured this month is the interview with Meghan Markle and Oprah Winfrey. 

Oprah observed that the British press was publishing a lot of negative stories about the wife of Prince Harry and wanted to bring that to the surface, Oprah is an excellent journalist in my view. Meghan claimed that being in the Royal family is very depressing and lonely so they left. Every person I know of had a different opinion about the topic and there is endless debates on the internet. 

The other thing that was happening was all the devices on the Perseverance Mars probe were turning on and protective panels were coming off, the probe had already done quite a lot of work. I also learned that the Rover is about the size of my car. I thought it was a small thing that can be picked up by one person. 

I was also thinking about DNA quite a lot because it is shaped like a spring and it is Spring season now. DNA is an amazing molecule. 

Mr Cheerman

I dreamed up a friendly robot in my head called Mr Cheerman. 

He talks very kindly and gives people paper flowers with stems that have coffee sachets in them and jokes. He greets everyone and tells them to have a nice day. Mr Cheerman waves and tells everyone to be happy. Mr Cheerman would help me expose the English problem. I'm English so I can say it. 

I could spray him with a chemical that reacts to saliva after he spent a whole day outside. He would look like fluorescent leopard. I would put him up on a stage and shout "Look everyone Mr Cheerman is covered in spit!!! He walked through a pigsty, was that pigsty Russia? No, was that Pigsty Saudi Arabia? No! , Was that pigsty China? No. It was England!!!! I would say "look at what they did to Mr Cheerman! Why are we criticizing other countries? Our behaviour is embarrassing to pigs, Mr Cheerman would have used chewing gum stuck on him and Spit, and rubber scuff marks where people kicked his legs. I would shout loudly, "Stop criticizing other countries, look at yourself"!!!! 

Ancient Aliens | An Alan thing

One thing I often do is stream a TV video about things I don't agree with. I watch them and find them interesting but when they finish I don't believe what they are saying. 

One such program is ancient aliens on Netflix. The ancient alien theory is the idea that the gods of ancient civilizations are actually extra terrestrials from other planets that helped them develop and gave them technology. 

I watch them talk about ancient stories and ancient depictions of their gods and claiming that they were actually alien beings from other planets. It is interesting but I don't actually believe it. I try to imagine aliens visiting earth centuries ago and influencing human history but I just think to myself that it didn't happen, humans created the gods in their minds most the time I think. I still enjoy watching it though, it is a good show. I think I have seen the whole box set at least 3 times. 

Why do I watch a documentary video that I don't believe? It's an Alan thing. It's just the way I am. I do the same thing with David Ike, I respectfully disagree with what he is claiming but I watch his conferences anyway. 

Bizzare connection to 64

64 is a special number and there is a very bizzare connection between that number, computing and DNA. 64 bit processors are common at the moment and using 64 bits on a motherboard bus allows computers to have more that 4 gigabytes of rapid memory. 

Protein machines inside our cells that read the DNA read 3 base codes at a time. Each base code has 4 possible values, 4³ (cubed) is 64. This means each coden has 64 possible values. Just enough to represent every type of amino acid and have some characters left over for starting and stopping a gene sequence. 

DNA amazes me because it is so clever. It is pulled in half down the middle without breaking the long chains. Then the DNA is read only on one side, the other side is a copy in reverse and is used to duplicate the DNA molecule. Then the two half DNA strands are zipped back together again. 

DNA and the proteins that manipulate it are machines. Every cell on Earth interacts with DNA the same way and follows the same rules. They read the same side of the DNA molecule and in the same direction and the codes to start and end a gene sequence are the same for all cells as far as I know.