History, Politics And Current Affairs

Royal Mail Ltd is all about parcel delivery these days. They just don’t care about letter post!

The problem isn’t that 34- 35 C is hot. Plenty (many, most) Brits going on their summer holidays tend to go to hot & sunny places. The problem is that 34- 35 C in the UK is also usually really humid and wind-less for days on end, and that tends to be endured in houses designed to maximise heat c...

Huh? How vulnerable to weather is your power infrastructure? Given that the UK routinely gets lots of nasty winter weather, your infrastructure should be pretty robust against storms bringing down power lines. Thunderstorms generally don’t cause massive blackouts from lightning strikes if you’re pr...

Chapter 6: Genesis Shadow The bridge of the Enterprise no longer resembled the crippled command center that had staggered out of the Mutara Nebula. Most of the primary lighting had been restored, replacing the harsh red emergency illumination that had dominated the ship for days, and several major a...

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2026 10:09 am I think a couple of those guys were still working at the Wurtsmith dental clinic when I got there.


Mike

At least one of those was still working in Norfolk ten years ago when my wife needed urgent work going!

Chapter 4: Observer The path through the field remained available only so long as the shuttle conformed to it with a precision none of them could define in advance. Kirk kept the vessel moving at minimal forward velocity, not out of caution alone but because motion itself had become conditional. The...

Has anything useful been released?

This should really be the next series. If we had a time machine and could take this back to 1989 as Star Trek V.bis, then I concur completely. Unfortunately we don’t, and so all of the roles would have to be recast. That gets tricky because you have to find actors who look like Shatner, Nimoy, Kell...

This should really be the next series.

The mystery ship.

jemhouston wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2026 7:57 pm Reacting like a living being?

How could it possibly be that?!

Chapter 3: Threshold The shuttle advanced by degrees rather than distance, its motion defined less by measurable space than by the consistency of its own response to control. The outer distortion had given way to something more structured, though not stable in any conventional sense. What lay ahead ...

Some Chinese company, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited, announced a battery that gets to 90% charge in 7 minutes. LFP chemistry. CATL is as far as I recall the biggest and most dominating manufacturer of EV batteries. They presented a number of new product updates this week. Greater den...

Chapter 2: Broken Chain of Command The route from the bridge to the aft sections of the Enterprise imposed its own discipline on anyone who took it, particularly now, when the ship still bore the internal consequences of the engagement with Reliant. Kirk descended through maintenance access rather t...

First - I like it. I want more. When do I get more? Is there anything I can do to make more happen sooner? Second - A few nitpicks - under urgency rather than ideal conditions. Perhaps "urgent" rather than urgency? If the Enterprise had just been through a battle that beat the hell out of...

Chapter 1: Resurgence The USS Enterprise no longer moved through space with the quiet authority she had once carried as a matter of course. She endured it. From a distance, she still looked the part—a Constitution-class starship, elegant in proportion, balanced in design, a symbol of Federation inte...

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2026 9:30 pm ...You have my attention, sir.

Mike

Oh well, in that case…

Prologue Space. The final reckoning. The USS Enterprise, battered and bruised from the encounter with Khan Noonien Singh and the Genesis Device, moved sluggishly through the black void of space. Auxiliary power hummed softly, a lifeline keeping the ship barely operational. Every corridor echoed with...

We will soon be back on the moon, we will likely make it to Mars in my lifetime, hell maybe we will actually see The Expanse for real...(not sure if that's a good thing or not...but will definitely be interesting.) Awesome, until the belters acquire the proto-molecule anyway. Just remember that the...

And it’s a doozy!

https://youtu.be/sN_QaFrgRN4?si=xCjlX8sk9vH4mOki