One Pound Of Uranium Is Worth About

We'd Never Have Got A Chance To Go Outside And Look At The Earth If It Hadn't Been For Space Exploration And Nasa.

The Apologists For Space Science Always Seem Over-impressed By Engineering Trivia And Make Far Too Much Of Non-stick Frying Pans And Perfect Ball-bearings. To My Mind, The Outstanding Spin-off From Space Research Is Not New Technology. The Real Bonus Has Been That For The First Time In Human History We Have Had A Chance To Look At The Earth From Space, And The Information Gained From Seeing From The Outside Our Azure-green Planet In All Its Global Beauty Has Given Rise To A Whole New Set Of Questions And Answers.

What We Have Lived Through, The 20th Century, Has Been Like A Great Party. Adults Now Have Had The Best Time Humanity Has Ever Had. Now The Party Is Over And The Earth Is Reckoning Up.

Our Planet Consists Largely Of Lumps Of Fall-out From A Star-sized Hydrogen Bomb. Within Our Bodies, No Less Than Three Million Atoms Rendered Unstable In That Event Still Erupt Every Minute, Releasing A Tiny Fraction Of The Energy Stored From That Fierce Fire Of Long Ago.

We Need A More Authoritative World...what's The Alternative To Democracy? There Isn't One. But Even The Best Democracies Agree That When A Major War Approaches, Democracy Must Be Put On Hold For The Time Being. I Have A Feeling That Climate Change May Be An Issue As Severe As War. It May Be Necessary To Put Democracy On Hold For A While.