Drought in England

I was listening to the news on the radio and they said they will declare there is a drought very soon, possibly as soon as tomorrow in some districts. I thought to myself that it is obvious, we have had just a few hours of rain in the last three months, all the grass verges and lawns are dried up and dead. There is wild fires breaking out everywhere. Parts of Britain had temperatures above 40°c for the first time in History that we know of. It's not just the weather that is unstable, global leadership seems to be in a bad place. 

In 2016, David Cameron resigned as Prime Minister of the UK because the referendum was in favour of Brexit. That same year Theresa May took over but she resigned in 2019 because her team couldn't break the Brexit deadlock. Now Boris Johnson is resigning because he can't hold down working team. It was during the hot dry summers of the recent years that I noticed staff throughout government was changing very often, not just the leaders but the cabinet staff as well. Nothing seems to be normal anymore. It is like no one trusts anyone anymore and everyone is cold hearted. They love themselves but hate others. 

I was thinking that there shouldn't be one prime minister. There should be at least five of them because ego should never be a motive to make progress. It should always be down to care and passion. It shouldn't be we are better than you because we get quick results, it should be we are doing things now for people that are not even born yet. I don't know. There are so many things I don't know. 

Toy Train

I imagined what would happen if I owned a city railway. The first thing people would think is "is this a toy train?" Because the trains are very small and they have a face on the front of them. The face on the front of the train would be lighting shaped like a face to show kindness to the passengers and light up the space in front of the train for safety. 

The trains would be so small that there is only one row of seats on one side of the train, there is also doors only on one side of the train, opposite the seats. The reason is because there would be more trains and they would run parallel on separate tracks, as soon as one train leaves a station, another train is directly behind it. The trains would weigh less so they wouldn't put much stress on the tracks and sleeper blocks. The wheel bearings on the train would also have less weight pressing on them. The passengers on the train would have a lot of space and a bike rack next to their seats. Each train would only go to one station from the platform, there would be a train stopping for every station over time and they would skip stations until they get to the one station they are heading for. 

When there are very few commuters, perhaps at 22:00, there would be less trains running and they would use less power because the electric motor would have less mass to overcome. But when it is busy, the work load is spread out evenly across the whole line so it would be quicker and more efficient than normal metro systems. 

Perhaps this thought only makes sense to me. 

Butterfly Effect thought

The butterfly effect is small things causing chain reactions that effect very big things; a butterfly can flap its wings and the air flowing away from its wing tips affects the surrounding air and that causes a chain reaction that eventually triggers a hurricane on the other side of the world. That is what the butterfly effect theory is. 

My example is I can write the word pin on this blog post, someone on the other side of the planet reads the word and remembers they left a box of pins in their car, they walk outside to get the box of pins and a virus goes into their nose and they catch the flu, they then take two days off work because of fever. While they are off work they watch TV and see an advert for an exhibition for a franchise. They book a ticket and eventually buy a franchise for a café. The café is a big success. Two years later, a customer in the café sees a picture on the wall in the café, the picture inspires them to book a vacation. While they are on vacation, they meet someone and fall in love, they later get married and have a kid called John. His whole existence and everything he does in his life hinged on the word pin in this blog. If I didn't write that word then all the events that causes him to exist wouldn't happen. Everything he does in his life also hinges on the word and even all the thousands of his descendants in the distant future. People living 5000 years in the future exist because someone went on vacation, the person went on vacation because of a picture hanging in a café, the café is there because someone caught a virus while they walked to their car, they walked to their car because my blog post reminded them they left a box of pins in their car. If they caught the virus one day later, they would have missed the advertisement and all those events wouldn't happen. 

I have a good imagination. 

Dry Day

Jacob, my son. 

You are 3 years old. This summer has been extraordinary, we had temperatures above 40°c in the UK for the first time since they started taking records. Right now we are going through a drought, it has hardly rained at all for nearly 2 months, just a few brief spurts of rain. The grass verges and lawns everywhere have dried up and turned yellow; water is like life in a glass. It is so nice to drink a cool glass of water after a very hot day. If you are very thirsty, plain water tastes the best.

90's Alan Chat

Just imagined another conversation with 90's Alan. 

Servant Alan :  "Hi 90's Alan, how are you?" 

90's Alan : "I'm fine how are you?"

Servant Alan :  " fine."

90's Alan :  "Do you still watch knight rider?" 

Servant Alan : "No, But I talk to machines every day?" 

90's Alan : "really, how?" 

Servant Alan : "Not too long ago my DAB radio broke, but I realized that smart speakers cost the same price at the time so I replaced it with smart speaker". 

90's Alan : "What is a DAB radio?" 

Servant Alan : "It is like a transistor FM radio, but  the signal turns off and on in pulses to encode characters that describe how to assemble the sound perfectly"

90's Alan :  "Like Morse code?" 

Servant Alan :  "A bit like that, but a microprocessor interprets the code and spurts out crystal clear sound, it is a computer that pretends to be a transistor radio."

90's Alan : "What do you say to the smart speaker?"

Servant Alan :  "I ask it for the news, I ask it logical questions like what the date will be in 97 days and 8 hours, I also ask it to turn on gadgets. Sometimes I just ask it to play the radio and it plays it through the internet". 

90's Alan : "Wow.... Why do you call yourself servant Alan?" 

Servant Alan : "I am like millennium Alan but I don't think global warming is a mild problem that will fix itself when the fossil fuels run out and I realized that everything I do in this world creates a never ending chain reaction that goes around the whole planet and eventually effects every person in the future so I try to be a good servant to all people of the future, that is what they call the 'butterfly effect'. 

90's Alan : "What is the butterfly effect?" 

Servant Alan : "Look it up, not with your internet speeds though, ha ha ha ha. Better start now, ha ha ha, see ya". 

Bad dream finally stops

I think we were all given a gift of premonition but we don't listen to our unconscious minds; a machine like side of us that persistently looks for answers. 

I had a dream that repeated about six times on six nights. It was a deluge of rain causing a large object to dislodge and fall down, the object was very much like a hill. The hill caused other problems when it dropped that was a danger to many people in the world. I saw stuff being push sideways and thrown outward. The amount of rain falling in this place was very unusual, it behaved like a lubricant because the object was stuck in place and couldn't move. When it rained constantly for a long time, it broke free and triggered a deadly chain reaction. 

We are worried about war and disease but we are not worried about what the Earth can itself can do to us. We are just little specks compared to the world around us. Just Specks... We are almost nothing. Why do we look down at other people when our lives are so short.  

The good thing is the dream has stopped now, I don't want to think about the dangers that surround us. If nothing happens then I will be pleased because my sleeping dream was horrible. 

July 2022

At the start of July 2022 Boris Johnson was unable to hold down a working team in government because they were all spontaneously resigning from cabinet duty. The reason was because they thought Boris' government were unlawful and unethical. He had no option but to resign as leader and start the 3rd conservative Leadership race. By the end of the month we were aware that one of two people would get the job; we now know it will be Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss. 

By the middle of the month we had record high temperatures and from the 19th onwards, Britain recorded temperatures of 40°C for the first time that we know of. Throughout the world vegetation dried up and burned up because of dry weather and careless human behaviour. 

The new space telescope called 'James Webb' was working well and we saw things we never saw before, we saw light that was transmitted 10 billion years ago, 5 billon years before the earth and sun formed. We learned that Galaxies flatten themselves into a disk shape as soon as they form and many other things like that. There is so much insight coming from their web site jwst.nasa.gov right now. 

On my birthday I was given a smart watch as a gift, to me it was amazing because I could see my blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen level and steps taken any time I wanted. It is like having a computer on your wrist. I never knew my average resting heart rate was 75 beats per minute, now I know. I never knew that my blood pressure was normally 112 over 72, now I know. I never knew my blood oxygen level was 98% in the day time and 99% when I sleep. I could take a reading from my phone without touching my watch and look at my health data without touching the watch because my phone and watch are both connected. 

During the last week of July we learned that the ports were not prepared for Brexit because they didn't have enough passport inspectors to keep up with the flow of people going on holiday so many people were held up by hours and days before their holidays started, ouch.