by David Todd | May 19, 2015 | History
Those of us old enough will have fond memories of the puppet action television series “Thunderbirds” which was devised and filmed by the late Gerry Anderson and his team in the 1960s. It was so popular that it was continually shown right up until the 2000s. The plot...
by David Todd | Feb 28, 2015 | History, Seradata News
Leonard Nimoy, the actor who became famous for portraying the half human/half Vulcan (from the fictional planet) science officer, Mr Spock, in the science fiction television and film series Star Trek has died at the age of 83. He passed away after being rushed to...
by David Todd | Jan 12, 2015 | History
It is with sadness that we note that during the recent terrorist outrages by Islamic-extremists in Paris, several writers and cartoonists at the satirical magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’, policemen and women on duty, and even workers and customers in a...
by David Todd | Jan 9, 2015 | History
The Australian-born film and television actor, Rod Taylor, has passed away at the age of 84. Taylor had his first major film role in the movie adaptation of the H.G. Well’s science fiction classic “The Time Machine” in 1960. This excellent film...
by David Todd | Jan 2, 2015 | History, Seradata News, SpaceX
On a sadder note: We saluted these as they left us During 2014 we said goodbye to the four time Shuttle astronaut Steven Nagel, British planetary scientist and Beagle 2 originator, Colin Pillinger, and Grand Prix ace, Sir Jack Brabham. We also made a valedictory...
by David Todd | Dec 9, 2014 | History, Science
While Elon Musk warned of spam-destroying robots might decide to kill off the source of spam: human beings…probably in Nigeria first 🙂 …now honoured physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has made a similar warning about Artificial Intelligence (AI)....
