Cyrano's Space Race

Cyrano de Bergerac was famed for his duelling skills as well as his prose.  It appears that his scientific theories deserve equal praise.

Writing in 1657, we see him devising several methods that would hopefully enable a human to reach the moon - something that was not actually managed until 1969.   Clearly a progressive thinker with big ideas, let's have a look at his seven potential methods:

BONE MARROW METHOD

0/10

 VIALS OF DEW METHOD

  0/10

 IRON PLATE & MAGNET METHOD

 0/10

HOT AIR CONTAINER METHOD

 1/10

 SMOKE FILLED GLOBE METHOD

0/10

 MECHANICAL STEEL GRASSHOPPER METHOD



0/10

10/10

Some of Cyrano's ideas are so preposterous that 0/10 is being too generous (practically every occasion).    However the overall mark has to be 10/10.  He worked hard on his ideas and wasn't afraid to think laterally. Getting to the moon isn't easy at the best of times and he fully deserves it. Ultimately got there in the end.

 

2001 theme v Elephant nursery

care share

super nice minimal file sharing app... https://www.wetransfer.com/
(via @jackbmurphy )
All web apps should be this clean.

A film about my sister's current work...

Memories Of Old Awake from Cambridge University on Vimeo.

My sister has a blog - Saga-Steads an account of her year long trip around Iceland.

This is a short film about some of her time there.

Calm down dears, it's just a Tudor Pop Song.

Sometimes Youtube comments are more entertaining than the clip itself.  Not in this case because the sheer brilliance of this clip is brighter than a million suns.  However some of these comments need to be shared nonetheless... 

These comments belong to an old post  from 2009 which features a medieval piece of music written by Henry VIII.  I revisited this post recently to discover that the comments were getting a touch out of hand in some instances.

 

Seriously?  You do remember that before you started acting all tough on youtube.com

you were getting down to a  Tudor smash-hit right?

 

:Le Rave:

Sometimes you are forced to dance in order to get alchohol.  In a recent roadside night-spot/club in Dijon we had to participate to precipitate wine and beer...  All those nights dancing in London, Berlin and Ibiza actually paid off in the end - we were sold three crates and 12 bottles of Rose...

SVEN the TERRIBLE

This is for anyone that has queued up to get turned away by the most iconic bouncer the world has ever seen. Berghain's  Sven 'the Terrible' Marquardt
New York Times interview  <------

He owns the door to the best club in the world and probably won't let you in. Unless you're with me.

He is also famous fetish photographer. I don't know that much about fetish photogpraphy but something tells me he's got the hang of it...

                                                                   

ϟϟ THE CROW ϟϟ

next level vibes here from @slugtownzboys ...

Abbey Road studio 3 desk.

Heavenly Creatures

A Some of photographs of good looking things found in the Spiti Valley - Himachal, India. Bigger images can be found if the pictures are clicked on.

This girl and grandmother were on the way up to their home, the village of Ki, 4,200m above sea level in the Spiti Valley.

This mewling sprog was milling around in a roadside dhaba with her brother.

The 1000+ year old Dhankar Monastary is home to some very lovely animals and humans.

This lost lamb found a temporary mother got very attached to Jess

This little kid didn't know anything apart from bleating a lot and looking totally pathetic.

Hitching from village to village and often sharing cars with whole families who seemed to quite enjoy having us there. This mute girl had fairly frost bitten cheeks from the harsh winter just passed.