Yes, expensive error.
I wonder if It was a suck it and see thing or it was a risk they simply didn’t think could happen?
Still, it’s returned its value since I suppose.
10,000 times over.
Saw Brian Cox tonight at the Opera House. Brilliant stuff!
I saw him in 1988 in the support act for Jimmy Page. It’s funny how people’s careers can change.
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I wonder 
For the better
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Geminids meteor shower tonight. Cloudy here unfortunately 
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I can’t get my head round this at all. One teaspoonful of matter from this star would weigh 10 million tons. 
How is that possible…
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Relatively, the space between the individual particles that make up an atom is enormous. And the space between individual atoms is also huge comparatively speaking.
It starts with that.
Ask my former mother in law. Most of her cooking was similarly weighty.
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Then, you get into sub-atomic particles and that’s where it gets complicated.
Really, we are all just vibrations 
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Number One has recently started asking questions about space…he asked about how big the stars are etc…
I have now seen this video about 50 times…
The Observable Universe…93 billion light years across…
Or for us dullards…93,000,000,000 x 9,460,730,777,119.56km…
All that space and we had to end up on the same planet as Manchester United…
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That’s 879,847,962,272,119,080,000,000km btw…
My Volvo will do that on a single tank of fuel.
I’m convinced Fernandes is an alien and Maguire hasn’t evolved yet.
Deep but very very fascinating.
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Could have put this in the Billionaire Baloney thread, but I’ll leave it here:
A really thought-provoking read.
this is the future of communications as we know it, once it can be easily replicated.
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