It's a funny world. Who would have thought? Saudia giving women the vote, you'd think the oil, and therefore the money, is running out and the kingdom is expecting it's own 'Arab spring' in the near future? Having more of your population 'on board' as were, may divert some of the bitterness heading their way.
NASA manages to loose a satellite, variously measured as being the size of a bus, 6 tons/tonnes, or something. Now would that be a Leyland double decker, a Bendybus or one of those little things that are not much bigger than a Minibus? Not that I would want any one of them to fall on my head, though I suspect a bendybus would fall to pieces long before it got to ground. Thinking about that, I suspect it would have fallen to pieces before launch.
It has always bugged me when the meeja make comparisons; it's the size of a football pitch they say. Well, all I know about football is; that a bunch of cretins that are given way much too money for their worth kick a ball about, or if its American football throw about. Neither pitch size do I have a clue about. One other thing. How can anything be 10 times smaller? Or 1000 times smaller? Surely it would be one tenth or one thousandth the size?
And finally did CERN break the ' light barrier' ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/life-and-physics/2011/sep/24/1?newsfeed=true ) with neutrinos? Actually, two things come out of this, one is the obvious one; things that shouldn't travel in excess of 'C' can, but more importantly, if the timing part of the experiment had worked as expected, would it have been scrutinised so much. I wonder how many other experiments ought to have shown anomalous results but haven't?
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