• Atomic puns & jokes no.21

    Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows more ‘atomic’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! ____________________________________________________________________ You are aware, of course, that all protons have mass. Mass?! I didn’t even know they were Catholic. _________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and…

  • Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 4 – 10 December (no.15)

    Follow for a weekly list of forthcoming astronaut* birthdays. Maybe you share a birthday?! If not, perhaps it will be you who adds your name to the list?! If you do share a birthday, what does it mean to you? Do you feel a connection, pride? They take to the skies (on controlled explosions) to…

  • “As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”

    ― Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 1 (http://www.literaturepage.com/read/mobydick-16.html) “For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal,…

  • Atomic puns & jokes no.20

    Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows more ‘atomic’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! ____________________________________________________________________ My friends tried to convince me I was a chemical element with the atomic number 82.Thankfully, I’m not so easily lead. ____________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date…

  • Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 27 November – 3 December (no.14)

    Follow for a weekly list of forthcoming astronaut* birthdays. Maybe you share a birthday?! If not, perhaps it will be you who adds your name to the list?! If you do share a birthday, what does it mean to you? Do you feel a connection, pride? They take to the skies (on controlled explosions) to…

  • “Sometimes we focus too much on our differences, but when we all look up into space, we see the same stars and we see the same sun. It really can be unifying.”

    – Anne Charlotte McClain, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, engineer and a NASA astronaut During an interview with We Are The Mighty, McClain said, “You get this overview effect where you realize how small we are and how fragile our planet is and how we’re really all in it together,” she said. “You…