If ever an aircraft needed a flight engineer, it was the (twelve engine!) Dornier Do. X flying boat airliner of the early 1930s! A crew of 10-14 was needed to fly this giant (56 tonne!) machine. Three were built and they flew successful passenger services for several years.

New - British techies to advise on “devastating” global encryption power grab against Apple via @computerweekly @1Br0wn @e3i5 @duncan_2qq #TAB @homeoffice

“Dog,” “pig,” “frog,” and “hog” share a strange secret. These everyday words all appeared in English around 1000 years ago. But to this day, no one knows for sure where they came from. This is the puzzling story of the most mysterious words in the English language... 🧵

“It is true,” she says, “that you can view life as a comedy or a tragedy, but Socrates thought there’s a third possibility."

Interesting situation - if the probability remains this high then we will have to make a decision on preparing a deflection mission - which would be a good investment even if (as is most likely) we don’t need to use it this time. It’s as if the Universe has decided to do an experiment to see if Planet Earth is still capable of taking rational decisions!

Old Carr Stream could be among Norfolk's finest #chalkstreams if its course was restored along wiggly parish boundary thro Old Carr, instead of brutal dead straight diversion beside arable field, source of the silt problem downstream. Upstream of field blissfully silt free. 15/15

Episode 10 of Top Marks Music Podcast with @mark_aofficial & @I_be_MarkB is now available at 🎧