While space insurance executives can be an all too serious bunch, every now and again one of them turns up on TV to amuse us all. Long-time space insurance broker Roger Bathurst, who recently left Willis Towers Watson and the business, appeared on the television...
There are still some in the world who hold onto stupid beliefs in spite of all of the evidence. No – we do not mean climate change or moon landing deniers, or even certain religious creationists…although we do have our doubts about all of them, but rather those Flat...
Hurricane Ophelia and its remnant storm may have tragically killed three as it caused extensive damage in the Republic of Ireland, however, as it tracked northwards (as imaged by NOAA’s and NASA’s spacecraft) it caused relatively little damage to mainland Britain....
While we all know that SpaceX has managed to land its Falcon 9 first stages successfully, the firm has, for a bit of fun, released footage of its failed attempts…and some are jolly amusing (see the drunkenly sliding rocket especially). Mind you, they put the...
The danger of accusing those against a generally accepted wisdom as being heretics is that sometimes the heretics are actually right! The comedian, actor and director, Woody Allen’s early 1970s film comedies (the best things he ever did by the way)...
Those of us thinking about moving house in the UK have long used the UK flood risk map supplied by the Department of the Environment to make sure we are not buying a house too close to a flooding river. Witness how the town of Staines was renamed to make it sound...
