Prince Philip asks factory worker on ‘stripping’
Prince Philip was back to his devilish best as he joked with an 83-year-old factory worker about her talent for ‘stripping’. The Queen’s 91-year-old husband proved he still has a twinkle in his eye as he indulged in a string of double entendres with Audrey Cook, who has worked at the at the Mars factory … [Read the full story]
Russia is to send an unmanned probe to the moon
Russia are planning to send an unmanned probe to the moon in 2015. The craft, called Luna-Glob, or Moon-Globe, will be carried by the first rocket to blast off from a new facility that Russia is building in its far eastern Amur region. It will consist of an orbital module and a probe that would … [Read the full story]
Governments rely too much on donations
Like me, I expect you get mail most days asking for your help in selling raffle tickets or donating money to worthy causes. Add to this the TV adverts showing the under-privileged in Africa or Asia requesting our monetary assistance, from fresh water, starvation and of course disease. Often I find myself saying, why the … [Read the full story]
Do aliens listen to our broadcasts?
Since the invention of radio more than a century ago, man has been broadcasting into space in the hope that any listening aliens could learn of our presence. Yet, despite waves travelling a distance of 200 light years in all directions, they still have 118,800 light years to go until the entire Milky Way has … [Read the full story]
There is a building on Mars…what aren’t governments telling us?
An American armchair astronomer claims he has found evidence of, well, something on Mars. David Martines has uploaded a flyby of Google Earth’s Mars explorer zooming in on a white, cylindrical shaped object. The object, according to Mr Martines, is “about 700 feet long and 150 feet wide”. He’s calling it “Bio Station Alpha, because I’m … [Read the full story]
How much money is the Earth actually worth?
It might seem astronomical, but buying the Earth would cost around five thousand trillion dollars, scientists have calculated. Even the richest man on the planet, $50 billion Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu, would have to round up over 100,000 similarly wealthy pals to afford it. The world by far the most expensive planet in out … [Read the full story]
