Twentieth post (updated)

“I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it” - Albert Einstein

It’s been a whole month since my last blog post, so I felt that one was due. But what to talk about? Water was found on the moon, which was a pretty big revelation. Does this mean the possibility of life on the moon? Probably not, as there is only about 32 ounces of it. But this, of course, assumes that life cannot exist in conditions any different to Earth.

Which is pretty ignorant.

There may be aliens monitoring us right now who laugh when they hear us say that life can only exist in Earth’s conditions. Then humans will nonchalantly voyage to other planets, safe in the knowledge that ET will not spring up behind them and bite their heads off, because of the toxic atmosphere or uninhabitable heat conditions… When suddenly, ET springs up behind them and bites their heads off!

Aghast, Scientists will have to re-think all their assumptions, while they suffer their embarrassing defeat at the hands of their conclusions. Humans will become the laughing stock of the Galaxy and the scourge of civilisations.

Tut tut, humanity.

Update: It appears that now, even more water has been found on the moon. The LCROSS satellite has discovered 100kg of H₂0, which would keep the average human alive for about 40 days.

Sixteenth post

"We can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way." - Buzz Aldrin

Hello there. What should I discuss today to use up some time in my epically large seven-week holiday.

I went to the National Space Station in Leicester on Thursday, which was interesting, although slightly annoying when I found out that there was an Apollo exhibition the day after.

Still, I saw a space toilet (pictured).

It disgusts me that some people still think that the Apollo moon landings were hoaxes. Tsk, tsk. How ignorant of people to disregard the program that brought us the fuel cell and the integrated circuit, as a fraud.

Still, being reasonable, the Apollo missions were partly a medium for the USA to spite Russia for winning the space-race in the Cold War.

But it is still silly to believe that the Apollo missions were staged. Look at the overwhelming evidence.

So I will settle this:

Please do not be swayed by negative suggestion.

Update:  So far the results stand at 50/ 50. I really hope that only two people voted.