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At some point people will realize that this is a terminal solar system and need to move. Going to the moon was a good story for the development of ballistic missiles to be used to blow Russia off the face of the earth, but you couldn't just say that. The generation of greed gained power and here we are..they don't look much past themselves.

Can anyone identify these craft on NASA's STS88 pics ?
ftp://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ISD_highres_STS088_STS088-724-66_3.JPG
ftp://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ISD_highres_STS088_STS088-724-67_3.JPG
ftp://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ISD_highres_STS088_STS088-724-68_3.JPG
ftp://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ISD_highres_STS088_STS088-724-69_3.JPG
ftp://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ISD_highres_STS088_STS088-724-70_3.JPG

Despite the threats of global warming, nucleur annihilation, over-population and food/water scarcity, limited energy resources, being hit by a comet or asteroid, I think the human race has a few more billion years to decide whether to go elsewhere in the galaxy :-)

These other factors may push us in the right direction along the way.

Hypothetically - if a limitless energy supply was found on the dark side of the moon, or in Mount Olympus on Mars, and could be beamed to us via some technical process yet to be invented, I don't think it would take much convincing to kick start a programme.
We can conjure money out of thin air based on future returns these days you know.

Hello JTheFun,
I hope I can help you.
The first, third and fourth pictures seem to be of Kradox freighters and commercial transports. They are just going about normal business in the area. The second picture is of Kradox fighter probably on a routine patrol. The final picture is particularly worrying it is of a Manov warship which should not have entered this sector at all. This ship has been caught not only where is should not have been but using a primary weapon (if you study the photograph carefully you will notice the begging of trillium beam coming from the ships starboard side).
My advice is to get on to NASA and warn them of the grave danger that being in position of such a photo puts us in. If we are caught with spy photographs like this life on earth would be immediately and irrevocably wiped out.
Over to you Evan.

I've just heard back from a friend on Zylon. Evan Davis is in fact a Manov undercover agent on earth. He has already detailed back to the Manov people and a planetary annihilation weapon has been launched. This is travelling at 100 times the speed of light and is due to reach earth on the 21st December 2012.

Evacuate the planet!

Giant Steps Are What You Take...........
Hello, Evan. I have just stopped laughing at the excerpt of your interview with 50 cents. Financial advice? For a Few half Dollars - jaw? Right!
I will plead old age when allegedly accused of being disrepectful to the gentleman but I always say now one doesn't NEED to hit the school bully. I learnt that much in my time on this planet let alone whatever moon of Jupiter I currently inhabit on occasion.
Warren Buffett and now 50 cent. Bankers, Ex PMs, celebrities - yes I AM jealous. Your two most recent interviewees though - I do not plan to listen fully to either recording - as it seems that is all that is needed to get the Beebs real attention. Conspicious Wealth. Ok.
But when we all come down to Earth - give me a bell and I will tell you effectively the price of most things worthwhile. Many a mickle make a muckle, look after the pennies and some such!
50 Cent? lol Ah me! Or rather - still not - me!

To JTheFun : the objects on the NASA images do look like spatial debris. A friend of mine has collected all these images into a single animation.

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July 18th? Come on Evan. Get with the program! So here we are again. That other guy at Evan Davis blog. Good news Evan about the 500,000 upsurge in listeners to the prog since you got onboard. Shame about the DM having a go at you for your biker attire. But there you go. The small price of a life in public!

Anyway I'm sure you'll be delighted to know that the amazing Lincoln City have now posted their wonderful debut set at myspace. The usual address plus /lincolncityband

No specific comments about the piece above other than it is not exactly up there on the interest scale with the Coen Brothers interview on TTP. Apparently they popped into the Ivy Club while they were in town. Funny how quickly news travels from The Smoke - even to the frozen wastes of Edinburgh!

Back to the thread topic. (Mods where are you?)

Getting humans out of low earth orbit needs a very good reason, it is so expensive. Such good reasons will probably come about in their time.

If it becomes possible to build a viable nuclear fusion reactor, then the moon is covered in Helium-3, an isotope of helium that would be an ideal fusion fuel. Mining the moon might then be a good enough reason and make economic sense.

I subscribe to the view that the first space age was an anomaly. Apollo should not have happened when it did, they were many years ahead of their time powered by an existential threat which no longer exists.

We have to recognise that still today the major motivation for deep space travel is a rather formless desire to 'just get off this rock'. Its hard to justify 4% of GDP for a whim like this when we can put robot craft in orbit around the moons of Saturn and oerform experiments in places where it could never be practical to put a human.

It would make more sense for the US government to invest 4% of their GNP in a new 'Apollo' or 'Manhattan Project' to build a viable fusion reactor. Bring the greatest minds in the world in one place and challenge them to make a commercially viable reactor in 10 years. Hang it, get all the worlds governments to invest 4% of global GNP in this and get it done, everyone would benefit.

This would solve the worlds energy problems, help with CO2 reduction... and create an economic rationale for spaceflight that currently simply does not exist.

Lets solve the big problem. Once we have that cracked, space flight will look easy and affordable.

That's all very interesting Paul. But, heh, still no sign of Evan. It'll be Christmas before you know it. In fact, it may even be fashionable again to be a Mod by the time that Evan gets back with the program!

In the meantime I think I'll just pen a poem or two until Evan gets back, so as to keep his blog warm, so to speak, while he is away, no doubt on other urgent 大象传媒 business.

This one is called Out and About In Paris and London. Some find this hard to believe but every now and then I get mistaken for Paul McCartney. Even Paul's late wife Linda did a double take when I was in the audience at a taping of The Last Resort with Jonathon Ross many moons ago. (back to the thread, clever eh?!)

Anyway the poem opens in the Cafe de Flore on the Boulevard St Germain...

She slipped into French cafe
Iconic
Known to all
Then stopped and stared mouth open
'It's you'
'My God, it's Paul'
Twas only precious seconds
A lifetime it was not
But Yoko made that Paris trip
And so her name I drop

The poem then changes location to Jermyn Street in London's St James, and chancing upon Stephen Fry in quite extraordinary circumstance. But to hear that episode followers of thatotherguy at Evan Davis blog will have to come along to the Royal Oak in Edinburgh where singer Ian Robertson and poet A A Reid start a seven week Tuesday night run on November 17th. Joining Robertson and Reid on stage that evening will be Sainsbury's favourite shelf stacker Gordon Parker for a new act known as Robertson and Reid. Plus Gordon! It should be a hoot. A bit like Clarkson, Hammond and May. But with talent!

It is fascinating who you run across on the streets of London Evan, is it not. This one is called London Standard 1985

Margaret Duchess of Argyle
and Douglas Fairbanks Junior
Caught the eye
Styled to deny
Their era gone forever.

You're far too young to remember the world before coffee culture and convenience eating Evan; we baby boomers didn't have it all easy - the family table could be quite a monotonous place!

Sticking with the thread, I wonder if the astronauts had printed menus when meal times rolled round in outer space. Exactly what was in their straw and pouch?

This one is called Life Before Lattes

Monday night was always mince
Tuesday night was stew
Wednesday night was gammon and chips
Thursday night, who knew?
Friday night was cod in crumb
Saturday tea, and a steak took its turn
Sunday roast came with peas and roast tatties
Those were the days,that life before lattes

remember that famous remark Evan. Whatever love is? Well some may recognise some of its more tortured elements from this. The poem is called Sussed:

When love looms deep, unspoken
Its thought rules all of life
Love looms and fears the token
The agony sits twice
Full soul in search of sustenance
Doth swell at dead of night
Resistance
Where's that option?
The Gods sit on each side

When loves finger points at wooden heart
And skelfs,
why who can say
Love's hand has formed a trigger
And fatal blast it may
What then?
Retreat to virtue?
Descend to madness?
Lust!
When love's door opens just ajar
Its slam all fingers crush

What stays inside for keeping
Makes hard to exorcise
Fired thoughts
Desires
The keening
Why me?
A sacrifice
As life turns into torture
And yes, reports it must
All thoughts of lust may wither
But this time
Love's been sussed.

I don't know if you ever had an imaginary friend when you were growing up Evan. This is something of an adult version. The poem is called New Best Friend

I don't know if I should mention this but,
he is a very good listener is old Rembrandt
True, there's always that rather supercillious stare to contend with
And the slightly mocking look in his eyes
But time after time he draws me back for a brief and confidential chat
My confessor
Whose parting shot to me is always reassuringly the same
Loser.

It was Goethe, was it not Evan, who said that a good poet needed to be a good hater. I particularly dislike shallow authors who develop plot lines that invariably take them out of their own psychological shallows. This one is called Empty Vessel

When I told 'Big Ian' to his face
that his little book lacked grace
He looked quite shocked
But went on to admit
He had cut out the bit
where rotter
interfered with daughter
Both characters and author
swept away that day
by strong current
running
from other side of
life's painted veil
and on to chesiled beach.

Heh ho, still no Evan, so more evian of life avec thatotherguy at Evan Davis blog. Come back soon mate as I'm running out of poems! This one is called: Brief Encounter

I never actually saw Princess Di
on the school run to Wetherby
But perhaps she saw me
She'd obviously had good lunch at Belfry
and as her car drew near
she plugged me into the national grid I fear
with just one smile
Tapping driver on the shoulder to slow down as she did,
he almost stalled the car
Had it been a plane that he'd been flying
it would have crashed back down to earth
As that angel did
But not then
Not that precious time
Later.

If you are looking for literary allusions to Dante or Donne in your poetry Evan, then you need to look elsewhere. Will P G Woodhouse do? This one is called Room At The Top

Christopher Sinclair Stevenson was famous for his dos
And Savile Club at author launch was where I met guess who
My favourite book and favourite film and all rolled into one
John couldn't get enough of me, two holes in one then some
It felt as if we'd talked all night but minutes it was only
Young man on top, old man below, sharp eyes now tired and lonely
Connected up we got on great. Oh fate! Thou spread fine table
But then like Edward 'Biffy' Biffen, dear God I lost my Mabel
"There's someone here that you must meet, come quickly don't delay"
Braine wandered off into the night, again I had no say
I never heard from John again, and he heard nought from me
But fate had still one hand to play, before me now I see:
First Edition
Signed 'John'
Held precious to this day.

Evan

You are listed on the 大象传媒 blogs under "Today" but you don't even bother to start any threads relating to the Today programme. Why is this?

The Today programme is a flagship radio 4 programme and listeners deserve more that the sorry efforts you are providing on your blog.