Asparagus on Mars!

It's official! The phoenix science team has said that after the gas analysis on a soil sample lifted from the surface of Mars, It has all the right ingredients to successfully grow Asparagus! Yay - So we can live on Asparagus when we eventually colonise Mars. Might be a bit of a boring diet! Seriously though. The soil samples revealed that they would be hospitable but of course, the rest of the environment certainly isn't. Phoenix is such a magnificent achievement.

Finally - Someone sees through Carbon offsetting

A year or so ago I posted  saying that I would no longer recycle because the government really wasn't serious about Climate change and the need to recycle after the introduction of the stupid Carbon Offsetting program.

Now I see, at last, the Carbon Trust is no longer accepting carbon offsetting as an ethical way to operate. Corporate's will have to demonstrate real reductions in their own footprints to benefit from the scheme and be issued with the Carbon Trusts "seal of approval".

Now all we need is for the government to wake up and heavily subsidise renewable sources like Solar and I will start to take them a little more seriously.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7469083.stm

Work like someone possessed!

I've been a little busy lately on all fronts. Work has been hectic for some obscure reason. All the other pathetic stuff I have to do has caught up with me too but for the next two weeks, it's instant bliss :) I spent the day today just relaxing which is really the first time I've done that in a very long time. I still have assignments to complete, but I am slowly working through those and if the worse comes to the worse, I can ask for an extension. I pride myself on only ever having to do that once before (on the same course as it happens). I had a search through the books at the library today and for the longest time, I've been trying to find out what academic level this course is pitched at. AS level apparently. In some ways, I'm quite pleased about that as I never reached that in School. Eat my shorts maths teachers :)