From the BBC (as usual):
President Bush to announce plans to send astronauts to Mars and the Moon. No surprise there – this has been flagged up for some time. Not sure that Congress will stomach the cost of these projects though.
Steve Fossett unveils aircraft for round-the-world solo attempt.
Month: January 2004
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Science news
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Not sorry?
Apparently, Nicholas van Hoogstraten is not sorry about the death of Mohamed Raja, for which he was tried for manslaughter.
Draw your own conclusions. -
Her Britannic Majesty requests…
BBC News – UK passport holders will need visas to enter US. Whatever happened to being granted passage without let or hindrance?
Aside: isn’t English a strange language? The verb to let can mean either "to allow" or "to hinder".
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Robert Kilroy-Pillock
Oh no! I feel another rant coming on over this news. Kilroy is clearly a fool for writing such an ill-conceived and prejudiced article, and the editors of the Express are even more stupid for being foolish enough to print it.
Interestingly, in the Express’s own reporting of this news, they only refer to the peice as a "newspaper article" and don’t mention that it appeared in their own publication. How curious! -
Beer with…
…Greg, wherein I bored the hair off him by talking incessantly about the wedding. Sorreeeee!
In other observations, why do the police in Chichester (or anywhere else for that matter) consider themselves exempt from the speed limit? -
Ortekker
I forgot to say thank you to my Secret Santa for Amber by Autechre – it’s brilliant, the best Autechre album I’ve heard yet. I may have to add the others to my wishlist.
Related: Warp Records. -
Mars
Mars news:
Mars probe returns colour images. The BBC server has been struggling a bit lately with the Mars probe pages – you might find that the NASA pages are more reliable.
D-Day approaches for Beagle 2 – at least, the BBC would like you to think that. In truth, tomorrow is the first of several D-Days, although if there is no success tomorrow, it will be very disheartening.