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Atomic (and space) puns & jokes no. 28
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or a joke. Here follows more ‘atomic’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! __________________________________________________________________ What happens when you slap someone with a high frequency? It hertz! Credit: @explorecosmos_ __________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can In…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 22 – 28 January (no. 22)
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…
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“I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It’s fragile.”
– Alan Shepard (18 November 1923 – 21 July 1998) Alan Shepard was the second person and the first American in space. He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission and was the fifth person to walk on the moon. Now that’s what you call making a mark! He was recorded as saying: “I realized up…
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Atomic puns & jokes no. 27
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or a joke. Here follows more ‘atomic’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! __________________________________________________________________ What did the atom say when it kept losing electrons?I really need to keep an ion them. __________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 15 – 21 January (no. 21)
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…
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“93 percent stardust.”
– Nikita Gill, Your Soul Is A River Nikita Gill’s poem, from Your Soul is a River, speaks to me, unusually as I’m not a great fan of poetry. The poem goes: We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls. and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with…
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Atomic puns & jokes no.26
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or a joke. Here follows more ‘atomic’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! __________________________________________________________________ I told a dark joke to an atom today, but it didn’t really find it funny.Turns out it was no laughing matter. __________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 8 – 14 January (no. 20)
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…
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“As I take man’s last step from the surface, back home for some time to come – but we believe not too long into the future – I’d like to just (say) what I believe history will record.”
– Eugene Cernan (14 March 1934 – 16 January 2017) Eugene Cernan was the last man on the moon and as he stepped into the lunar module to return to the command module in lunar orbit he said these final words: “Bob, this is Gene, and I’m on the surface; and, as I take man’s…
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The Eagle has landed. Apollo 11 Landing from PDI to Touchdown
Just seen this and wanted to share it. A blow-by-blow account that follows Eagle descent to the lunar surface. You know they make it … but its still edge of the seat stuff! The Eagle has landed! ___________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can share it,…
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“Science Fiction Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.”
– Peter H. Diamandis, Metatrends substack, 17 July 2026 Why are people so pessimistic about the future – and view the past as some form of pastoral utopia? On these pages we promote hope – not cope or mope. Hope lives here. An interesting insight is from Peter H. Diamandis in his substack, where he…
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“I believe in evidence.”
– Isaac Asimov, The Roving Mind (1997), (2 January 2 1920 – 6 April 1992) Scientist and science fiction author Asimov’s output of novels and books popularising and explaining science was prodigious. As a rationalist he often railed against superstitious and pseudoscientific beliefs that tried to pass themselves off as genuine science and had this…
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What is a light-year?
A light-year is a measure of distance – not time (or anything to do with Disney’s Toy Story). It’s used to indicate the distance to stars and galaxies. It’s the distance light travels in one year in a vacuum, which is about: – 4.2465 light-years OR 5.88 trillion miles OR 9.46 trillion kilometres Light travels…
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How far is that star?
Basically, far! The Sun is the closest (and brightest) star. It is about: – 93 million miles – 150 million kilometres The next closest star (Proxima Centauri) is invisible to the unaided human eye and you need to be in the Southern Hemisphere to see it with a telescope (it’s too dim to see with…
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Death rates from disasters have fallen over the last century.
Good news. Recent data indicates that natural disasters are NOT going to kill us all. The global death rate from all natural disasters (drought, floods, storms, earthquakes, wildfires, extreme temperatures, etc.) has fallen by more than 90% over the last century. The total number of deaths has fallen substantially, despite there being four times as…
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“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
– Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie (Marie Curie) (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) She was a was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. The first woman to win a Nobel Prize. The first person to win a Nobel Prize twice. The only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.…
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