by David Todd | Oct 28, 2014 | On a Lighter Note, space station
While nuclear war or an Ebola-like virus remain the most significant threats to the human race, along with crashing comets and asteroids of course, there could be a significant other one. Or so space-rockets-to-electric-cars billionaire, Elon Musk, has identified....
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2014 | On a Lighter Note
The International Astronautical Congress remains a fascinating conference. One minute you can be talking to the head of NASA, the next you could be chatting to a pretty young Russian rocket scientist or a charming young Swiss one (don’t tell the wife :)). You could...
by David Todd | Sep 23, 2014 | On a Lighter Note, Science
With the West African outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus threatening to become an international epidemic, making the devastating medieval “Black Death” outbreak look like a “walk in the park”, British terrestrial television viewers may have...
by David Todd | Sep 19, 2014 | History, Military space, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News
While the Scottish referendum on its independence did have some reported intimidation and anti-English sentiment from the “yes” side, and scaremongering and economic threats from supporters of the “no” side, in the end the secret ballot was in...
by David Todd | Sep 5, 2014 | History, On a Lighter Note, Satellites
While NATO used DigitalGlobe’s commercially available high-resolution satellite imagery to prove that Russian columns of armoured vehicles and motorised artillery had entered Ukraine (since backed up by French satellite observations), Russian diplomats have...
by David Todd | Aug 23, 2014 | Apollo, History, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News, SpaceX
While the urban legend joke about the moonwalking Neil Armstrong congratulating his childhood next door neighbour Mr. Gorsky under his breath on the Moon is untrue (the apocryphal story is too rude to print here but here is a link 🙂 ), and while the Apollo 11...
