Apologies. It was 35 years ago. My memory isn't what it was.

I can remember when it was launched, and the name Hubble became synonymous for being a bit rubbish. Eveything went wrong. It was launched into the wrong orbit, the lens was scratched (The lens was scratched!), it shuddered when the solar panels expanded and contracted when entering and leaving sunlight. And here with are 35 years later, with all its many, major initial failings forgotten. Its almost the american dream of failing till you make it.

In Europe in the 1860s, revolutions were taking place everywhere. Karl Marx thought the workers revolution would start in the UK. Turns out it didn't. Britain in the 1800s was pretty much the only country that didn't have a civil war, cos everyone new their place guvnor. The satanic mills of the industrial revolution was run by shovelling widows and orphans into the furnaces. So the wealth rose to the top, and was then converted into overseas expansion and ever more mills.

GB News and the Reform Party thunder constantly about the folly of Net Zero. And yet, it works. Guess they'll still keep taking brown envelopes from Russia.

It just requires a bit of patience.

True. At my factory, we've just had to spend a small fortune now making sure our equipment in UK certified, as well as the old CE certified. The safety standards are exactly the same, but we've got to be certified twice. Utterly stupid. If Europe changes some of its requirements, the UK will have to follow otherwise it will either appear as 1) Insufficiently safe or 2) Overly bureaucratic. At least we changed the colour of our passports :(

In the video, Hogan isn't.... wrestling. Thats just something your parents told you when you wondered unannounced into their bedroom.

Labour's vote share is up all of 1.7%; this landslide result is because the Conservatives have fallen 20%. Labour's total votes are 9.6 million, less than the dreaded Corbyn election in 2019 when they were clobbered with 'only' 10.2 million votes. Democracy is a funny old game. The worst form of government, except for all the others.

Yahoo was everything outside of Compuserve and AOL, and then it controversially increased its front page to 100K. No way was I downloading that bloatware.

The IPad is stuffed into the closed crusher, and then the feet slowly separate and the creative objects burst into existence. Theres a few examples on Youtube already. It looks really impressive, and gets the intended message across in a much better way.

Once ad blockers only properly run on Firefox, we'll all go back.

There really are Nazis in space.

Man leave cave. Man discover fire, maths, physics, rockets. Man go to moon. Man live in cave.

So just as the US government is being force to admit to hoarding UFO technology, 'researchers' discover room-temperature superconductors and now a fifth force of nature within days of each other. Coincidence? I think not.

The article in the Independent just references itself. I've not been able to find the original research on the internet. What 'bots' are being used? If they are a university level research grid, then thats not normally going to be used by the average script kiddy hacker to break a capcha. If a python script trawls the internet and has to break a capcha, then processing time above 10 seconds is going to make the enterprise unfeasible. If an anti-bot measure does require a research grid to defeat it, then that probably still a success.