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Surprise surprise! The new space station will be named Vladimir's Death Star.

A new crop of poems appears on the London Underground. The scheme has been going since 1986, to soothe the minds of commuters and tourists. One new poem is Ozymandias by Shelley, inspired by his visit to see the Egyptian artefacts in the British Museum.

Blast off for a baby boom .....

I did not know that already! Do the female crew members not wear protective suits?

Windex (R) spray? For glass???

Space 101: Meteor showers

The dust lost from a comet disperses into space. The Earth and other planets are continually sweeping up this dust. When a dust particle enters our atmosphere, it burns up due to friction, producing a streak of light known as a meteor.

Individual meteors occur all the time, but occasionally the Earth crosses the orbit of a comet and encounters a group of particles, producing a meteor shower. Then dozens of meteors per hour can be seen, all appearing to come from a particular point in the sky.

A meteor shower is named after the constellation it emanates from, e.g. the Perseids after the constellation Perseus.

The Leonid shower, after Leo, can be particularly prolific, producing as many as 100 thousand meteors per hour. As this happens around 17 November each year, it presents a spectacular sight. Truly one writer calls them "celestial snowflakes" .

I hope those health experts are right .....

Yes, authors of dystopias will have to work hard to make fiction more dreadful than reality.

First Constable, now Botticelli ... where will it end?

Indeed. Though some authorities believe that there are malevolent aliens also.

Perhaps. It is difficult to evaluate. There have been periods of history that looked very bleak, like the Black Death, and the Hundred Years War, but the world survived them. But of course this offers no guarantees for the future. Perhaps some aliens will arrive, saying (through their translation device) "Calm down humans! We will fix things for you, so that your world is filled with peace and love, and cheap petrol."

Turmoil indeed. Could this be the beginning of the end?

The Data Song

Data, data, everywhere,
Give me more data,
Megabytes,
Gigabytes,
I'll take the lot.
But how much will I need,
To stop the rot?

Yes, a very long time, but hopefully it will be worth it. If not, there is always Cameron Diaz for Ben.

So Jennifer is now J Lo-Affleck?

Ireland again??? The Celtic Tiger is roaring into a sporting ascendancy. Of course, in music, Ireland has an impeccable record, with luminaries such as U2, Van Morrison, and Dana.

England get rugby win against Australia.

Yes, the Irish deserve credit for their development.

Improved England defeat India in ODI.

For Bastille Day, a poem by Wordsworth about the revolution (no daffodils involved)

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