EXCITING NEW RELEASE OF THE ‘LOOKING FOR LIFE’ AUDIOBOOK
‘LOOKING FOR LIFE’ AUDIOBOOK RELEASE I am delighted and excited to announce that the Audio book of multi-award-winning short story collection ‘Looking for Life’ has now become available on several audiobook distributors. Excellently read by Susan Marlowe of Findaway Voices, the audio version does full justice to the novel’s text and will magically transport you…
Continue readingA VISITOR FROM OUTER SPACE
Oumuamua. What was the large strangely shaped object that recently visited our solar system from outer space? On October 19, 2017, interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua—a Hawaiian term that translates to scout—was discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey. Astronomers first spotted the object as it passed through the inner solar system on a slingshot trajectory around the sun…
Continue readingTHE KAIKOURA LIGHTS MYSTERY
Introduction On a New Years Day in 1979 strange lights were spotted by six people on a plane off the coast of New Zealand’s South Island. These have been catalogued as the Kaikoura Lights Mystery. Skeptics said it was Venus, it was squid boats, it was radar returns from a field of cabbages. Or just…
Continue readingDOES TIME REALLY EXIST?
Introduction Like every human being on Earth, I tend to run my life by the clock. Even if that clock is only a rising or a setting sun. But what is Time? In mathematics, time is usually defined as an ongoing and continuous sequence of events that occur in succession. This means linearly going from…
Continue readingLARGE HOT AIR BALLOONS
Large air balloons have been in the news a lot recently so I thought it might be interesting to have a look at these specific types of aircraft and their history. They go back further than you may think. The first air balloon with a human payload In November 1783, the first free flight carrying…
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