12noon News Desk.

Well, we aren’t the centre of the universe, we aren’t the centre of this galaxy and we aren’t even the centre of our own solar system. We just aren’t that special. Around 300 planets have been found so far, most orbiting other stars and in all likely hood other planets will be found. Some of these other planets should be the right distance away from their star and have water and be able to sustain life. Life will find a way to survive and life has been found in the most inhospitable places on earth, so I’m guessing that with water, a tolerant temperature and some sort of land (soil) life will spring up on other worlds. The next faze then would be intelligent life. I’m guessing that we aren’t the most intelligent life in the universe. We are only young on a universal timescale and any other intelligent life would most likely be way ahead of us. Well, that’s if they don’t do what we’ve done and created global warming, atom bombs and used up most of their natural fuel resources.

I think the distances between stars could mean that we will never find anyone to have a face to face conversation with. It’s not going to be a startrek future, but the chance of finding another planet like our own is a real possibility. If we can survive as a living planet long enough, we should be able to develop the technology to escape our planet and head out into the depths of space. The moon was just a short step away and mars isn’t that far, but heading out to another star will be a real accomplishment and challenge. … I’ll add more to this later.

The Lazar superskin helmet could be the future for motorcycle helmets. The idea is that just as your skin moves when you bump into something and you have to bump into something hard to cause a bruise and even harder to break the flesh. Well if you apply the same thing to motorbike helmets it should make you safer on the road.

I find the video above to be most interesting and would much rather have a skinned helmet than the normal hard crash helmet.

I was just looking for information about the new Honda CBF125 year 2009 model and noticed that the bike doesn’t have a kick start. So how do you start the bike if the battery fails ? Also the bike has one of those black exhaust systems. I once owned a scooter with a black exhaust and it didn’t stay black for long. The heat burnt the paint off and within a few month the exhaust started to rust. The things i like about the bike though are the acceleration, top end speed of almost 80MPH and the 135 miles per gallon that it is capable of. I should imagine that with a new chrome exhaust fitted that this motorcycle would be fantastic for new motorbike riders at the cost. As far as i know it will sell for £1,700.

I bought Animal Crossing for the Nintendo Wii just before Christmas and thought i’d let you know what i think to this video game. 

Well, for me this is the best game i’ve bought to date. I also own Mario Kart, PES 2008, Wii Fit, Wii Music and others, but this game just has me hooked. You start the game by naming your town and choosing a house. Your house isn’t the biggest house in the world though and so you take out a mortgage. Your aim then is to find a way to pay your mortgage, pay for upgrades to your house and put furniture into your house. Easy…

Here’s a few picture of how my game has gone so far.

lots of fruit.

I had to plant fruit tree’s and pick the fruit to sell on, to make money… Bells.

A tuna fish.

I also had to go fishing to make money to help pay for my house.

My Animal Crossing house.

I’ve now got the inside of my house looking good.

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Where in our solar system do you think we could find life ?

It might only be tiny microbial life and not anything that resembles people, but I’m guessing our best possible hope to find other life in our solar system is probably on either Saturn’s moon Enceladus or Jupiter’s moon Europa.

I was looking for Mediterranean cruises the other day and wanted to find a nice yet not too expensive cruise ship that would sail around the Med in 7 days and have one of the ports of call as Naples in Italy. Anyway one of the boats i was looking at was Thomson Destiny and the name of the cruise was Jewels of the Mediterranean. 

I wanted to stop off for a day in Naples because one of the places i most want to go to in my life is Pompeii. I want to see and photograph something very special and something that i will never forget and Pompeii is one of the top things on my list of most wanted places to visit.

Back to the cruise part of this message, I’ve looked at P&O, Island Cruises, Ocean Village and one or two other cruise opperators and for cost, destination and the fact that i wouldn’t have to get dressed up for dinner every day, i though Thomson cruises might be better for me and my first ever cruise. 

What i need to know and find out is where abouts on the ship would be the cheapest yet best place to stay. I know i don’t want to end up in a room next to the engines or a room under the disco because I’d never be able to sleep, but i also want to keep the cost down and know that it would be pointless paying for a room that’s fantastic but only get used to sleep in. Also i need to find out what i would need to take with me on a cruise.

So, if anyone has got any advice on cruising or knows the answers to my questions, i would love it if you could reply to this message. Oh and has anyone else done a Mediterranean cruise before or been to Pompeii ?

Yes I’m one of those people who has wires like spaghetti hidden behind every desk and cupboard in the house. My HD TV a 28 inch Acoustic Solutions cheapo television is sat above a Virgin V+ cable box, a Lite-On DVD re-writer and a Nintendo Wii games console. I also own a Wii Fit board. Over in another corner of my living room sits an 8 inch digital photo frame and directly underneath in a cupboard sits a Advent 4211 netbook and usually this (I’m typing on it now) Dell Inspiron laptop. 

My Internet broadband comes wirelessly via a D-Link DIR-655 wireless N router hooked up to a Virgin cable modem. Even my mobile phone can connect via wi-fi and run at a good rate online via that.

Upstairs we have two Apple computers. We’ve got a mini mac and a macbook. A few years ago i ran a cat5 cable upstairs to give access to the Internet upstairs, but for some reason the cable got broken and now the computers upstairs just work via wi-fi.

Anyway i think that’s just about it at the moment, but i love innovation and gadgets and will add and change things as and when i feel the urge.

Oh and i forgot about the digital cameras, mobile phones and sat-navs.

2009 is almost here. Out with the old and in with the new.

At the moment i’m playing “Animal Crssing - lets go to the city” on the Nintendo Wii and the town folk are all talking about the big count down to 2009. As far as i know fireworks will light the sky at midnight and all the animals will be popping party poppers.

I think i’ll be staying home and having the odd can of lager to see in the new year. I’ll be watching events unfold on TV. How sad is that. I don’t enjoy spending the new year drinking in a pub though.It’s much better at home.

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