The Axion

What’s wrong with 3D films and TV?

What’s wrong with 3D films and TV? Hailed as the next big thing in entertainment, 3D films and TV will emerge over the next five years and result in most of us sitting in darkened rooms wearing strange glasses for fun. I visited a friend’s house this week and he proudly told me that he had been with his children to see Alice in Wonderland in 3D at the local cinema and how much he and his kids enjoyed it.  I promptly picked up the pair of the “Roy Orbison style glasses” he had been forced t...

Granny and Granddad Moron.

I am dismayed at the lack of progress at the Copenhagen climate change summit and at the chaotic demonstrations as well as the actions of the police in crowd control.  (more on policing in the 21st century in a later blog). It is showing up all that is bad about our understanding of the climate change threat and how much the world is divided. Unless we can all (and I mean the whole 7 billion of us) come to a common understanding on climate change and agreement on mutual support, there is littl...

TV Documentaries worth watching tonight

TV is often disappointing, full of soaps, game shows and repeats but tonight we have a treat.  Two documentaries deal with problems that every one of us will face and be impacted by.  The first is by the excellent Horizon team and hosted be the venerable Sir David Attenborough  - How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?  on Wednesday 9th december 2009 on BBC 2 at 9 pm. I have mentioned before about the potential crisis that over population will bring to our planet but there are ways to...

Copenhagen Climate Summit Begins

With the Copenhagen Climate Summit under way I will be following proceedings and commenting here. But already I feel that its is a waste of time.   The climate change deniers continue to put self interest or a misguided belief in some kind of conspiracy ahead of the future of human kind and without a global consensus it seems unlikely that any real and significant reduction in CO2 emissions will be made. For a moment imagine what daily life will be like in 2109 if the worst case scenarios ...

War? What Is It Good For? Nothing…

Four months on from my last post and war has not yet started but many things have happened and I feel confident that a major war will start by the end of the year. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the world and perhaps there were green shoots of an economic recovery the world has been hit by a pandemic 2009 H1N1 swine flu. This was one of the 20 or so potentially catastrophic world events that we know are overdue and could hit us at any time.  So far however, this pandemic is n...

Re-post from old blog to get this going

Posted by Theaxion Sat, March 28, 2009 17:20:32 Three months on and war has not started but the signs are still there. It's coming. Russia has decided to re-arm its forces with modern weapons and just today announced the commissioning of six new nuclear submarines and will also start patrolling the Arctic regions to protect its interests there. A report from America says that China is spending more and more on arms and its Military build up. Iran has reportedly enough enriched uranium to m...