Krioma.net

I am not sure how I am going to merge the two togther but from now onwards the front page of my site will no longer be updated in the same manner.

I am intending to update this as much as possible but we will have to see.

Well it looks like Beagle 2 may have been lost, 6 attempts from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter have revealed no communications, however what it has found it a crater, 1 km wide just in the landing zone of Beagle 2. If Beagle 2 has landed there then I think it is time to say bye bye to yet another spacecraft going to Mars. At least we have ignorance on our side, a 1 km wide crater is just too small to have been noticed until the recent high resolution images have been taken by Odyssey.

Image: http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/marsexpress/images/031229craterclose.jpg

Credit: Malin Space Science Systems

Mars is a plagued planet for our probes, I can't believe people are speculating about sending people there when we can not even land a toy car!

Quite frequently I find that some of the sites that link back to mind are adult joke sites, this must be due to some of the cruder nature of my junk section, http://www.krioma.net/junk.htm, but sometimes I find that I have been linked to by someone who is doing something scientific and has read my work. I really like to find that my work has come in useful to anyone, its a great felling knowing that you were able to solve a gap in someone's knowledge. Maybe I should become a teacher? Maybe not, I did that for two weeks during work experience and also during my A-levels in sixth form I saw the other side of teaching. It was hideous - not for me. I am glad there are people out there who do this for a living, just don't think I could. I would like to eventually get in to teaching children about Astronomy, I think this will have to wait till I have left University. I get my fill of teaching by running AstroSoc but I really enjoy this.

Oh yes back to the point, I found that I have been linked to on:
http://temblor-ball.sourceforge.net/offtopic.php - it is a slightly old link of my document but is still my work.
http://paganastronomy.net/eric.htm - used in an article called "Emergence"

Cool eh!

The poor homeless dogs in Birmingham will not be having a happy new year this year, guess why? Because Birmingham City Council decided to move the cities new year celebration from the traditional centenary square to Millennium point, just down the road from Birmingham City Dogs home! Now I normally have nothing bad to say about Birmingham as I think it is a fantastic place, but sometimes (quite often even) the city council make some very stupid decision that don't make any logical sense - the nature of politics I guess!

My thoughts go to the staff at the dogs home, I hope they enjoy the new year celebration as they are trying to keep these poor dogs calm. I think it is time for me to write to the city council.
For more info see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/features/2003/12/new_year.shtml

New Street is to close its doors!

Now this is shocking, Birmingham has yet again been done over by lack of investment from our London only government. If it is not in London then it is not worth investment. How about building a new tunnel to cope with the increased traffic or is Birmingham just not worth it. New Street could do with it. You have to remember that New Street Station is the most complicated train junction in the UK - lack of investment is not an option, unless you want everyone to be complaining about Network Rail and the crap late trains.