Science round-up inspiration 15

I haven't produced a science round-up blog for some time.  It’s not that I haven’t been following events and news, it’s just that I’ve had other things to blog about.  Anyway, time to put that right.  As always these are in no particular order of importance or merit they are just an eclectic mix of items that have caught my eye.

Out of this world

Pluto fly-by

NASA have amalgamated more than 100 images from New Horizons to form a video fly-by of Pluto.  New Horizons, in July 2015, became the first spacecraft to fly by the dwarf planet which is more more than seven billion kilometres from Earth.  

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The future is - Rubbish?

As a science fiction writer I wonder about what we are doing to our future.  It seems there is endless scope for those post apocalypse visions. I also wonder if future generations will forgive us for our wasteful use of valuable resources and the mountains of rubbish we are happy to create. http://wp.me/p3ycbY-1ix