100 Days - 58

Day 58

"They sniff. There is a pronounced odour in the cabin. The moon dust they have brought back on their suits now smells like gunpowder to Aldrin, and like wet ashes to Armstrong.

The Moon has a smell."

-  from A Fire on the Moon, Norman Mailer


















03 September 2019
House of Commons returns from summer break. The Prime Minister loses his working majority after MP Phillip Lee defects to the Lib Dems during the EU (Withdrawal) Emergency Debate. Commons Speaker John Bercow grants MPs an emergency debate on whether they can take control of Parliament's agenda tomorrow. The vote for a motion and against No Deal-Brexit is still to come later tonight.
In a newspaper from July scientists are surprised that in an experiment chimpanzees bond over watching television together. Previously experts argued that the capacity to experience reality as shared is "uniquely human".
No bounds arrogance must be uniquely human trait ...