Techno-Tortoise
Seems so long since I updated anything here, I thought I might change the name of the blog: Techno-tortoise! I went looking for a picture of a tortoise and found this one, looking...
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Former Royal Ordnance Factory 16: Elstow
The Royal Ordnance Factory at Elstow was a World War 2 ammunition factory, producing a seventh of the total tonnage of bombs dropped on Germany. The site is now being demolished to build a new town, Wixams that is being developed south...
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Drivers distracted 18% of the time
Re-blogged from Transport Research Laboratory news hub Motorists spend 18 per cent of their time behind the wheel not concentrating on the road, according to a study into driver behaviour. The research, which...
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RIP: Gerry Anderson, creator of Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds and Stingray
Gerry Anderson famed during the 1960′s for a string of successful children’s television science fiction programmes has died. Famed most of all perhaps for Thunderbirds, he also created Fireball XL5, Joe 90, Stingray...
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SI humour
One day, Einstein, Newton, and Pascal meet up and decide to play a game of hide and seek. Einstein volunteered to be “It.” As Einstein counted, eyes closed, to 100, Pascal ran away...
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Scientific science fiction – from Alastair Reynolds
“I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.” This quote from scientist and...
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Is This the Biggest Black Hole Ever?
Reblogged from National Geographic A monstrous black hole—17 billion times the mass of the Sun and possibly the largest ever detected—appears to be too big for its galactic home, leaving astronomers scratching their...
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NORAD Tracks Santa
I know it’s nearly Xmas when I start taking an interest in the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). NORAD was set up in 1957 at the height of the Cold War to track Soviet nuclear...
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This is too good to miss. The technology behind is mind-boggling. Each yellow dot is an aircraft, with the whole thing taken by satellites and spliced together over a 24 hour period. I...
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Digital Computers: Old and New
My favourite computer museum, at Bletchley Park, has now restored an old digital computer, originally from the Harwell Atomic Energy Establishment. It was built between 1949 and 1951 and weighed in at a...
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