The View from Cullingworth

Cullingworth nestles in Yorkshire's wonderful South Pennines where I once was the local councillor. These are my views - on politics, food, beer and the stupidity of those who want to tell me what to think or do. And a little on mushrooms.

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Friday, 28 July 2017

Friday Fungus: The problem with mouldy spaceships

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ARTHUR DENT: Good grief! Is this really the interior of a flying saucer? FORD PREFECT: It certainly is. What do you think? ARTHUR DENT:...

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Friday, 13 November 2015

Friday Fungus: On the shocking absence of mushrooms in Neal Stephenson's 'Seveneves'

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I'm a lot of a fan of Neal Stephenson's writing - he is among the most creative and innovative of modern SF writers. And '...

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Sunday, 22 December 2013

Pioneers wanted! Capitalism, Marxism and living on the moon.

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"Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid...

Monday, 3 June 2013

Quote of the day...

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**** From the genius of P. J. O'Rourke : I don’t pretend to be wise enough to know what the lesson is. But let’s send our children...

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Saturday, 25 August 2012

Wink at the moon...

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**** I remember sitting on the floor of my primary school watching Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. In modern parlance is was, like, wow! ...

Sunday, 3 July 2011

The Space Age is Over...Long Live the Space Age!

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In one of those well-informed polemics that The Economist does so well, we are told that the ‘Space Age’ is over: Their dream was for man...

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