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Saturday, 24 January 2026

Movie Facts

In the book that the movie 'The thing 1982' is based on titled 'who goes there' by John Campbell. There are some key attributes of the alien creature that was not revealed in the movie.

Firstly, the organism doesn't need to eat or breathe because it can harness cold fusion in its cells, they split water molecules and merge the two hydrogen atoms together to make helium and lots of energy.

Secondly, Dr Blair believed it has a default form and was likely artificially created to spread an alien civilization around the universe. When they found the creature it had three red eyes and tendrils in its head and Dr Blair came to the conclusion that when it had finish assimilating all the life forms it would return to its default form, unless it needed adaptations to survive.

Thirdly, the creature is telepathic and as it thawed out in the book, it would mess with the minds of the crew and it knew what they were all going to do. They couldn't hide anything from it.

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Monday, 19 January 2026

James Webb's New Friend

When they Launched the James Webb Space telescope it had a priority problem. It can only look at a very tiny fraction of the sky at a time and it is difficult to choose what places are more important than others.

For this reason they sent up the Pandora Space Telescope, it will mostly look at stars when one of their planets transitions between the star and us. The probe will try to separate the light from the planets atmosphere and the star and detect if there is something interesting there like clouds or oxygen. If the probe finds something interesting then the James Webb space telescope will take over and have a closer look.

The pandora probe is very small, about the size of a washing machine and the rocket bay that took it up had extra space so they added two other small cube satellites, sparks and balckcat, they're about the size of a serial box and would fit in a shopping bag.

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Sunday, 11 January 2026

What Trees Are Made of

Almost all of a tree's mass comes from the air. The tree will take carbon dioxide from the air and water; it will use solar energy to split the water molecules and combine them to the carbon atoms freed from the carbon dioxide and release the oxygen as a waste product.

The root of a tree doesn't use anything in the soil except some nitrate compounds but they are almost nothing. Using air water and sunlight, a tree self assembles into a giant wooden structure that towers over all the animals.

Wednesday, 17 December 2025

AI Cribbage

If you ask chat GPT to play Cribbage with you, it will cooperate and set up a virtual game of Cribbage.

It will start dealing text based playing cards and hide its own hand and ask you what cards you want to remove. It will even do all the pegging for you virtually.

The same is true of snakes and ladders. It will create a text based version of the game with a virtual dice and place ladders and snakes at different points on the board.

Monday, 24 November 2025

Moon Fact

In diagrams, the moon looks like it is quite close to the Earth, it looks like it is within the diameter of the earth. The truth is the moon is approximately 380,400 kilometres away.

The distance between the earth and the moon is so vast that every planet would fit in the space between them.

Sunday, 23 November 2025

Dehumidifier Credit

If you buy a good Dehumidifier that can remove more than 12 liters of Water per day, it will pay for itself in less than a year. During winter months it will reduce your heating bill because dry air is better at storing heat than damp air and feels warmer so you feel compelled to turn down your thermostat.

It could also reduce the amount of time your sick from off work because dry air carries less microbes and viruses.

It can also stop damage to walls and furniture cased by condensation.

Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Chromosome 2

In humans, Chromosome 2 is actually two chromosomes fuzed together. Most chromosomes are X shaped but they're only like that when the cell is about to split into two. Normally they are just a single thread of DNA. For some reason we have one Chromosome that is two fused together.

There are telomere sequences in the middle of the Chromosome, they usually appear at the ends of the Chromosome.