This
amazes me - it's not enough that fossil fuels cause no end of pollution and
global warming. Now there's evidence that drilling them out causes earthquakes
too. Surely the sooner that electric cars become de rigeur, the better.
Meanwhile no end of personal data has been obtained by "socialbots" - computers
pretending to be real people, and asking for people to be their friends on
Facebook. There’s a lesson to be learned there.
I know who’s on my Facebook list. But does
everyone? Somehow, I doubt it.
On a more personal note, I see the government
has made some concessions with regard to proposed changes to public sector
pensions. A shame that they are only giving grace to those within ten years
of retiring. I miss out by three years. Or that is I miss out by three years if
I stay with the NHS. If I manage top organise myself another job, I suspect I
shall be working until I’m nearly seventy. But they say that a change is as
good as a rest. I wouldn’t say that I’d go at the first opportunity, but I’m
seriously looking at what else is available at the moment.
And if you look up into the night
sky it’s just possible you might see the unmanned Shenzhou 8 craft, (launched earlier this week), docked with
the Tiangong-1 space lab. The Chinese have succeeded in carrying off an orbital
docking.
They will be on the Moon soon – you mark my
words…
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