Well the weather continues to mess us about with the wettest July since 1977, and we've still got a week to go with a rubbish forecast to boot.
Elsewhere in the golfing world, further debates and disturbances in the world of Men's professional golf as the blood money on offer seems to be winning over (who would have thought it, in this capitalist age, cash is King, or Sultan. I suppose) - frankly though, the whole debate is getting tiresome, and it will no doubt end up woth the top players and execs getting significantly fatter wallets, and empty promises to "promote the game". I'm getting too cynical in my old age.
In other, far nicer news, there was the story of the 1500 metre runner winning the world championships being commentated on by his father - the some commented that he just tends to tune his dad out (he commentates on lots of his races apparently), which one can only assume is the result of various unwanted exhortations from a father desperate to maintaion professional neutrality versus the understandable desire to see their progeny triumph. Presumambly any winnings go towards Dad's therapy.
On the scientific front, 2 dead stars (neutron stars) collided this week - I say this week, of course I mean millions of years ago, but we're only just getting the news now via a gravitiational wave and a subsequent flash in the night sky which is being hunted for in the hope of gaining new insights into the workings of the universe. All pretty amazing stuff, but the fact that really blew my mind related to the density of a neutron star.
If I have this right, a neutron star is a giant star that has collapsed under the weight of it's own gravity, compressing in on itself, shrinking in size but not weight, to the extent that, and here I quote, "a small teaspoonful weighs (wait for it), 4 billion tonnes"
4 billion tonnes
4,000,000,000,000 kilograms
A "small teaspoonful"
I'm not sure how a small teaspoonful compares to a large teaspoonful, I thought the that a teaspoonful was a teaspoonful, but that's the pedant in me, either way, that is very, very, very dense - neutron stars are clearly related to some of the top golfers on our known little planet
Stay safe, stay well, and stay dry
Steve
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