Minor update pt.6
I watched some good TV today. There was Stephen Hawking’s new programme (I forget the name) which this week was about time travel. It turns out that travel into the past is impossible, due to radioactive feedback destroying any wormhole that might be big enough for a person to walk through. Travel into the future, though, is a theoretical possibility, if we can travel fast enough. There was a decent animation of a trainline running around the entire circumference of the earth, with a train travelling at close to the speed of light (this involved it going round the earth seven times a second), and also footage of a spaceship circling a super-massive black hole. The most likely option, though, is the creation of a giant spaceship which would travel for hundreds of years in one direction away from the earth, then coming back. The passengers would only have been travelling several weeks (I think) from their perspective.
Also, there was Wonders of the Solar System, Brian Cox’s new programme. This had some startling information about Saturn’s rings, which apparently have largely been created by ice-volcanoes erupting from the surface of Saturn’s moons. Apparently, also, the beginning of our solar system was a series of rings much like Saturn’s, but around the sun. Gravitational shove from Saturn itself caused many of our planets to shoot out from the sun’s orbit, where they hit astroids and the suchlike, resulting in the crators that we see today.
I have just finished watching Isolation, and Irish horror film about genetically engineered cows. The GE-ing goes slightly wrong, creating these mad creatures which then roam around a farm biting people. It was kind of a cross between Alien and Some Other Film Set On A Farm.
Abi’s been away this weekend. I’ve been a bit miserable about that.
I have also run out of bird food. Earlier today, one of my wood pigeons sat on top of the feeder and looked at me as if to say, ‘What the fuck is going on here?’ Then it flew away.
