Monthly Archives: September 2022

Cyphers & Monograms

The difference is that with a cypher you can take away part of it and it can still stand as information and not fall apart, whereas in a monogram the letters quite often form part of another letters structure.

The Development of Green Plants

I’ve never been a fan of things ‘just happening.’ Green plants are not really the best way to absorb the available light we currently have and utilise it in the most efficient way. The sun currently gives off more light in the yellow and green spectrum than in the red area that give green plants […]

The Dart Mission and Deflecting Asteroids

The recent Dart mission to send a craft to impact the Didymus B asteroid to deflect it seems to be a success, but the true results before the effects of doing this are known. Before the congratulations and hailing the success of the mission guaranteeing the people of earth a safe passage, we may need […]

Are Western Governments Ideas About Electric Cars a Pipedream?

Electric cars have a lot of advantages. Overall, they are more efficient at providing power and because electricity generation can be done on a large scale using power stations of various types they will be cleaner overall.  The problem comes with how to provide that mobile power on the road. This is done mainly with […]

How Theory Led Results Differ from Result Led Theory

Recently in science, especially big, monetary return-based, or status-based science we seem to have had a change in the way that the ‘scientific method’ operates. In the past, because there was a lesser level of knowledge, theory always followed the facts. There were many experiments to see what was going on, and then, when the […]

Expiration Rates of Creatures

Below is a rough estimation of the expiration rates, carbon content, weight and yearly production of CO2 by various creatures on earth: Estimated Expiration of Creatures Approximate %weight Total Weight Respiration C02 CO2 per day CO2 per year Notes Carbon Tonnes Tonnes per day Kg Fungi 12,000,000,000 0.25 3,000,000,000 0 0 0 Unknown Bacteria 70,000,000,000 […]