ISRO Chandrayaan 3 mission

Recently, the Indian space agency ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) sent a probe to the moon's south pole at a cost of only £90 million. Less than the budget of some recent Hollywood movies. They could make that money back in a few weeks just from selling offical ISRO merch, t shirts and models. They're a very logical bunch at ISRO. 

I think they created a highly elliptical orbit to get the lander close to the moon's surface and rockets to land when it was at the closest approach. That is very clever. 

The ISRO website is more colourful than the other sites I read. I found the chandrayaan 3 Blog it is isro.gov.in/chandrayaan3.html. I'm very curious to see what they have discovered. All I know right now is that the rover has left the lander and is moving on the moon's south pole. 

The Main website is ISRO.gov.in, Indian Space Research Organisation. 

Chandrayaan 3 gets to work

I looked at the moon in the sky, then I looked at the bottom of the moon and wondered what the new robot explorer had discovered so far.  I think India are the 4th nation to send a probe to the moon, this time they're exploring the south pole. No nation has explored the south pole of the moon before so they may find something very interesting. 

The rocket vehicle that took the probe to the moon works a lot like the NASA  SLS rocket for the Artemis missions. It has two booster rockets that detach when they're empty and a central main rocket in the middle. The lower parts for the spaceship also come off to remove dead weight when they're depleted. 

I wonder what they will discover out there. 

Peaceful Day

Jacob, my son. 

We went to Southend on sea a few days ago for a short break. You always learn something new when you go on a short break. It is nice to go to the coast and relax. Southend is now a city, you went there when it was still a town and it was the first coastal place you went to in your life. 

I learned that it is better to take the c2c train from Barking train station than west ham because the east bound trains share a platform and the station has ticket machines. The west bound c2c trains also share a platform at barking so when you get off a c2c train you can get on an 'underground' train and they put the contact card readers on the platform so you can tap in without leaving the platform. 

I also learned that in the Jurassic park movie they knew the human sized raptor dinosaurs were not called  velociraptor they were actually called Dinonychus "de non e kus" , the director liked the name so he switched them around, velociraptors were very small, about the size of turkey. I learned that from an aquarium of all places, they had a small dinosaur section in there. Those creatures chasing the kids in the kitchen are actually Dinonychus, not velociraptors. 

I smell something

There are many fires breaking out around the world but I see through the flames. They're not wild fires, they're ruthless property developers trying to drive poor people off the land and increase their property portfolio. When the wilderness is destroyed, they will bid for the land to develop properties and farms. 

I believe global warming is real but there isn't that much lightning in the world to start all those fires and most lightning strikes through the rain. I know that people are going into the forests during a dry spell and dropping burning plastic or shooting lasers from drones to get the bush land burning. 

They need to put live cameras in the forest when there is a dry spell and catch arsenists red handed and take council leaders to court if they evict people that still have a home to catch them taking a bribe. 

No one listens to me now but people in the future will read this and know that I know bull shit when I see it. I can smell bull shit a mile away. 

They should make a law that you can't bit for land that is burnt. They will say the forest is gone, let me buy the land. Then they can say no, let the woods grow back again. 

Bike Fix

The town I live in is not bike friendly. I avoid cycling in my home town because there are hardly any bike roads and many motorists don't respect the rules, they drive close to 50 mph or sometimes 60; there are flowers on some of the roads where cyclists have been knocked of their bikes and killed.  I figured out a way to make High Wycombe bike friendly without being a nuisance to motorists. 

I would convert kingsmead road into a one way single lane road, the other lane that is lost would become a two lane bike road for bikes going east or west. It would then link up with bassets lane over the foot bridge and then join the existing bike lane at the back of rye park. Rye Park is close to the town centre and there are many pavements there that don't get used much and they could become the last stretch of the bike road. Kingsmead road goes all the way to the retail park at naives beech(the tree). 

Kingsmead road is already a nuisance to motorists because there are crossing islands that force cars to give way. It would better if it was a single car lane going in one direction with two bike lines next to it. That way, motorists wouldn't need to worry about pulling over at the crossing islands. 

There would be signs on London road that point to the bike bypass road so cyclists and get to a safer bike road. 

Thank Yeshua

Christians around the world are being persecuted, their churches are being destroyed and their possessions are being ruined. It is the same thing that happens every time; a lie spreads about Christians and then a community has a hateful knee jerk reaction against them. 

I'm grateful that Jesus was placed in the body of man and steered the body into a sinless lifestyle that was pleasing to the father. Then he lay down his life for us so we may have eternal life if we repent and embrace God's law. He was resurrected after 3 days and made a way where there was no way. Let's replace our fear and hate with peace. 

Forgive, repent and embrace the 10 commandments given to Moses. Trust in Yeshua, Jesus. 

In this world people are shallow, they won't even return a greeting but Jesus loves every last person, even the people that persecute Christians. 

Launcher set

According to the NASA blogs, the new launch tower for the Artemis missions is in place. A few days ago the launch tower was all set up. It solves problems I never knew existed. They have to pump lots of liquid hydrogen into the space launch system but the hydrogen starts to boil when it is injected into the rocket. When the hydrogen boils, the gas hangs around for a while and could cause an explosion when the rocket starts up so the tower pumps the excess gas away. The tower also has clamps that hold the rocket up in the wind but they have to pull away as soon as the rocket turns on, I think the whole tower leans away from the rocket during launch. The tower injects large amounts of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen into the rocket; when the rocket is loaded onto the launch tower, it is empty. It is filled up while it is mounted on the tower. 

The Space Launch system for the Artemis missions works like the space shuttle system and resembles it in some way. Large tanks filled with liquid hydrogen and oxygen are burnt and two smaller booster rockets on either side help to lift the Orion space ship at the top out into deep space. 

Very soon, people will go to the moon to keep a constant human presence there, I'm guessing they will build a space village on the moon.