Robbie

Your Saturday Afternoon Weather

It is going to stay unseasonally cool going into next week.

@Wheelbarrow repair man Can you remember James Burke who worked on these marathon programmes of the Apollo missions? He worked on Tomorrow's World for many years. He's still going strong at 87. The 3 Astronauts that died in the fire that engulfed their Command Module were working on Apollo 1 at the time. When Apollo 13 had the explosion on the side of its Command Module, Astronaut Swigert contacted mission control and said , "Okay Houston, we've had a problem here"

Sad to read the news that William Anders was killed in a small plane crash yesterday. He was 90 years old. Anders, the Lunar module pilot, was one of the 3 Astronauts of Apollo 8, the other two being , Mission Commander Frank Borman & Command Module Pilot James Lovell, who were the first Astronauts to travel away from the Earth, orbit the Moon, see the far side of the moon, then come back safely to Earth. I can remember as a boy, watching the extended coverage of the journey on the BBC and being rivetted to the small telly we had over the Xmas of 1968. On Christmas Eve William Anders turned his camera toward Earth and captured the legendary Earthrise photo which has become iconic. Those three Astronauts paved the way for the following missions that landed on the moon. In a way, those three gentlemen were like the pioneers of old, such as Cook & Raleigh. The Nottingham Evening Post had a big pullout about the mission, and I kept it for years. It was a very special time and I can remember Patrick Moore, of the Sky at Night programme describing every stage of the mission. Here is a link about the Apollo 8 mission. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8

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At the end of the day, having artificial intelligence, such as fully automated Robots playing sport without emotion, motivation, passion, or without the ability to have a relationship with the fans, or without the ability to celebrate a goal or feel sad when they lose wouldn't be entertaining at all. AI should only be there to help and assist, the human race, not to be used to replace the human race or to attempt to entertain the human race.

Another defeat Notts 102 all out lose to the Falcons by 96 runs.