Tim Fryer, technology editor

Sun-reflecting chemicals could be ‘remarkably inexpensive’ way to reduce global warming

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Everything about this story oozes a disaster waiting to happen. Not the sort of disaster that involves the emergence of a new sort of skin condition or the extinction of Amazonian frogs. I mean real disaster. Plants stop growing, for example.

The thing is, changing the Earth’s atmosphere using stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) isn’t something that can be done in stages. We can’t do a little bit over the mid-Atlantic and see if the Earth has an allergy to it. Once it’s up there we will all experience the consequences, good or bad.

I’m certainly not against looking for innovative solutions to any problem, least of all global warming as it appears to be the biggest threat to human life as we know it. Humankind’s ingenuity has a history of doing amazing things and we shouldn’t back away from doing the big stuff just because of its scale. But the idea of changing the atmosphere does seem too big for my conservative tastes and the unknown consequences potentially too damaging – final even – to experiment with.

What worries me is that the sulphates used in the creation of this global filter might not behave exactly as we predict they might. What if the combination of aircraft fumes and ozone and whatever else exists up in the stratosphere (which is the second layer of the atmosphere), changes the chemistry of these sulphates – alters their optical properties, perhaps, or their stability – and their properties change accordingly? Maybe they become heavier, drop to the troposphere (the bit of the atmosphere just above the ground) and we find rain becoming more acidic.

Or perhaps organisms that have been happily photosynthesising for two or three billion years find the new filtered sunlight unpalatable. That would be the big one. Instantly imposing a new environment on all living things that have evolved alongside an atmosphere that has evolved in tandem with us.

The long-term effects on the environment of pesticides, fertilisers, medicines like antibiotics and of course plastics have only relatively recently started to become apparent, but they are all, in terms of how they enter the environment, on a very localised basis. To treat the world with an instant and all-encompassing spray tan is on a whole different scale.

I know this story is about the development of a clever delivery method and not about SAI itself, but this was the first I have heard of SAI, hence the reaction to the bigger theme.

Incidentally, it’s inevitable with such technology available that ‘madman-holding-the-world-to-ransom’ scenarios would emerge, keeping James Bond in gainful occupation for years to come.

Lorna Sharpe, sub-editor

Rail sector ‘needs to focus on positives’ ahead of Brexit

I went to the Railway Industry Association’s (RIA) parliamentary reception this week – and believe me, the warnings about long security queues are genuine, though luckily I was safely under cover before the drizzle turned to a downpour. Unsurprisingly, there was a generally upbeat tone to the event and a clear message that rail is a business that’s important to the economy, not just a means of getting about.

At one point during the speeches, when business minister Richard Harrington had just invited us to imagine a test track in this country with a business park and a cluster of rail-connected business around it, the senior RIA manager standing next to me whispered “It’s going to be in Wales. The Welsh government is giving it a lot of support.” I made a note, thinking he had given me a tip-off for an exclusive news story, but when I checked the next day I found that it had actually been announced in June. I’d seen the story at the time, under the description ‘global centre of excellence,’ but had visualised some laboratory-style buildings, not a full-scale test track. That goes to show how easy it is to miss some of the exciting things that are happening, even in areas we’re interested in – though I should point out that it’s still a proposal which needs to be fleshed out and justified. The diggers aren’t moving in just yet.

In case you’re wondering, the original British Rail test track at Old Dalby hasn’t closed down. It survived all the vicissitudes of the post-privatisation era, passed through various owners and is now part of Network Rail’s Melton Rail Innovation & Development Centre. Failures hit the headlines, but plenty of good things are bubbling away underneath.

Siobhan Doyle, assistant technology editor

InSight spacecraft begins life on Mars

Exciting news for all you Nasa/space fans out there (pretty chuffed about this myself). On Monday, the space agency’s InSight lander successfully touched down on the surface of Mars and even captured a selfie of itself on the Red Planet.

Six years after Mars was visited by Nasa’s Curiosity Rover, InSight will be the first mission dedicated to the Red Planet’s deep interior and will use its trio of instruments (seismometer, heat probe and radio science experiment) to enable scientists to understand how different its crust, mantle and core are from their counterparts on Earth.

Nasa’s mission control room at California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had been anxiously anticipating its safe land earlier this week, considering it had a seven-minute window in which to decelerate from 13,000mph to just 5mph. Talk about coming to a sudden halt. However, when confirmation came through that it has landed safely, there was enthusiastic applause from engineers and other members working on the project.

The agency’s chief administrator, James Bridenstine, celebrated what he called “an amazing day” and the director of JPL, Mike Watkins, said the success should remind everyone that “to do science we have to be bold and we have to be explorers”.

After many unsuccessful attempts to land other spacecraft on the distant planet, Nasa’s InSight team “can rest a little easier,” as the lander’s project manager, Tom Hoffman, put it. Furthermore, this probe will allow to explore and discover more about the Red Planet in depth, literally.

Rebecca Northfield, assistant features editor

Neural networks blaze through wild animal identification and animation tasks

Researchers have made a deep-learning model that can identify images of wild animals from camera-trap photographs in North America at great speed and with near-perfect accuracy.

Have you ever had yourself caught out by some sort of candid camera moment? Evidence of you mid-sneeze? Or picking your nose? How’s about laughing like an absolute crazy person and having that beautiful, gurning moment captured forever?

I don’t think the animals would like having their vulnerable, unplanned moments snapped on film. If a deer was able to have a mosey through their moments, they’d probably be thinking, “Eurgh, is that what I really look like?! I’m so fat!”

In the university’s latest study, the researchers trained a deep neural network on Mount Moran, UW’s high-performance computer cluster, to classify wildlife species using 3.37 million camera-trap images of 27 species of animals from five US states.

Vitali Vitaliev, features editor

Rail sector ‘needs to focus on positives’ ahead of Brexit

Positive thinking is always a good thing, even at the moment of crisis, yet the beleaguered British railway industry seems to be thinking that positivity can be limited to bragging about its relatively modest (if compared to failures) achievements, like, for example, celebrating the fact that the South East franchise (of which I happen to be a permanently dissatisfied customer) alone moves 450,000 passengers a day. At times, to brighten up the very bleak picture, it goes way too far in its unadulterated positivity.

“Did you know that our British railways are the safest in the world and the envy of the whole of Europe?” my wife asked me recently, at about 9:30pm when she had just arrived home after being stuck for two-and-a-half hours on her commuter train from London. She then showed me an article from that new compact and bouncy i newspaper – all that is left from the former Independent daily. “We are a hugely successful railway”, ran the headline. Underneath it, there were numerous quotes from Robert Nisbet, a “regional director of the industry body for UK railways” (whatever that means), asserting (among other things, by which I mean 43 per cent of all ‘services’ running late and up to 500 train cancellations every day) that the British rail network was indeed the “envy” of Europe.

The article also quoted an anonymous “senior industry source” talking about British Rail’s “very high standard of safety”, second only to that of… Luxembourg! I do understand why the quoted source chose to remain anonymous. Not to be identified and garrotted by angry commuters, whose “recent experience”, as Mr Nisbet himself admitted, might not be “reflected” in his comments. CFL, Luxembourg’s main (and only) train operator, may indeed have great safety records due to the relatively small number of trains (comparable to the size of that mini-state) it operates. As for the British trains, they may be safe for another reason – because they normally do not move.

Indeed, the safest railway scenario is to keep trains stationary – something that the British rail network has been doing very successfully this year. But they wouldn’t be willing to “focus” on that, I am sure.

‘Pint-sized’ Scottish satellites launched into orbit

As someone who lived and worked in Scotland for a number of years and hence has the right to consider himself partially Scottish, I – like all other Scotsmen (including the partial ones) – can get seriously offended by the derogatory simile, coined by Graham Turnock, chief executive of the UK Space Agency, who, according to this story, dared to describe the Scottish-made satellites as “pint-sized”. He must have never tasted a good ‘iron dram’ from a proper Speyside or Glencairn whisky dram glass – and that was what the properly Scottish satellite sizes should have been compared to and expressed in!

Perhaps before the headline is spotted all over Scotland and leads to another independence referendum, it should be changed to ‘Dram-glass sized Scottish satellites launched into orbit’. And if someone decides that the dram glass isn’t big enough, the satellites could be safely described as ‘whisky-bottle-sized’. Why not?

As they say in Scotland, “Slainte”!

Jonathan Wilson, online managing editor

US must lead world in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, says Bill Gates

Say what you like about Bill Gates, but he’s certainly putting his money where his mouth is. Diseases? Let’s cure ’em. Carbon emissions? Let’s reduce ’em. The answers to these problems aren’t all that difficult (relatively speaking). It just takes commitment, a willingness to do what’s required and, of course, money. It’s a sad state of affairs when it takes a team of philanthropic billionaires to address the real issues facing the world, but this only serves to underline the irrelevance of politics and governments in this day and age. Most politicians go into the job to make money for themselves; not to do what’s best for the planet and the people living on it. The sooner people stop looking to the likes of Donald Trump or Jacob Rees-Mogg for selfless, humanitarian leadership and instead set about righting the world’s wrongs for themselves, the sooner we might stand a chance of preserving this planet and surviving on it for many future generations. People power is the only power that matters.

$29 trillion in climate cash potentially available to emerging cities

A related environmental future story, about a heckin’ large pile of World Bank ‘climate cash’ (love that phrase) potentially available to emerging cities in emerging countries. If it means these places starting out on the right path, with a cleaner and greener future in sight, it seems like it would be money well spent.

Google staff protest against Chinese censored search engine project

Just when you thought Google couldn’t get any stupider, it got stupider. Big pay-offs for executives sacked over sexual harassment at work claims? Check. Secret projects working on military drones for the US Army? Check. Collaborating with the Chinese government to create a heavily censored version of its search engine? Check. No wonder its own employees are becoming increasingly vocal – and public – about their dissatisfaction with the company whose own corporate culture motto used to be ‘Don’t be evil’. That was until the need to make money became sufficiently pressing that maybe a little bit of evil was necessary and OK, so it quietly dropped that concept and went off to talk to the US military and the Chinese government, while groping and fondling women in its workplace. NB: other search engines are available.

Dominic Lenton, managing editor

Movember charity rolls out contactless donation badges

The ability to shift relatively small sums of money around without having to dip into your pocket for some loose change or even a banknote must be a boon to the charity sector. Whether you’re sponsoring someone to run a marathon or just contributing to a collection on the spur of the moment, it takes the hassle out of both giving and receiving.

Now the Movember Foundation, the organisation that encourages moustache growing at this time of year, is taking things a step further with the launch in the USA and Australia of smart badges which, when touched with a suitable device, allow a donation to be made.

There are so many other situations where this application of NFC technology would make life a little easier. The only danger, I suppose, is that it’ll become hard to negotiate an office corridor or city street without being assailed by a succession of badge-wearers encouraging you to tap them with your phone.

What we’ll need before long is another badge that responds to the charity one by flashing to confirm that yes, you’ve already given to that particular good cause and no, you’re not just ignoring the eager person approaching you.

Or, more constructively, a solution to self-service supermarket checkouts always pumping out a pocketful of shrapnel in change. Surely it’s feasible, rather than weighing down shoppers with change, to give you the option of just sticking it in a virtual charity collection box instead?

Mark Ballard, associate editor

US must lead world in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, says Bill Gates

Bill Gates is without doubt, the richest man in the world. But it wasn’t so many years ago, he was the one they all loved to hate.

A gnarly old hack once said to me, as though it was a cause for derision; that Bill (if I can call him that) was autistic, and that made him different.

Wassat, I said? Autistic, he reckoned: it means he can’t give a toss. He turned his lips up and came in close. Yeah, its inherent; he can’t help it; he’s gross.

Bill was there at the time, up above us on a screen. It was a press do: him waxing live from state side. Wah waah waa wah waah wah. Wah waah waa wah waah wah. Wa wah Windows waah wah waah wah.

Old gnarly wanted my confidence. To get it he was offering to trade: my trust, for my self respect; with his on both counts a charade.

Picture this, is how he put it. Bill in the boardroom in slacks. Incapable of normal dealings with people. He talks in machine and whines like a cat. His colleagues and suffering wife, flit round him, telling gags, being live. He just talks to his laptop. And he wears jumpers, all the same type.

Oh I said. Ah ha hah. And tried a smile. But a grimace rose like I’d been offered, help with my arm up my back, by a gorilla who wore a cravat, at a picnic where polite haw haw ha was the mode, ah hah hah hah haah hah agh ha haah.

Now it’s bout 30 years later, old gnarly is long gone, gone long and flat. While Bill has half saved the world. And he’s smiling at that.

Tim Fryer, technology editor

Sun-reflecting chemicals could be ‘remarkably inexpensive’ way to reduce global warming

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Everything about this story oozes a disaster waiting to happen. Not the sort of disaster that involves the emergence of a new sort of skin condition or the extinction of Amazonian frogs. I mean real disaster. Plants stop growing, for example.

The thing is, changing the Earth’s atmosphere using stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) isn’t something that can be done in stages. We can’t do a little bit over the mid-Atlantic and see if the Earth has an allergy to it. Once it’s up there we will all experience the consequences, good or bad.

I’m certainly not against looking for innovative solutions to any problem, least of all global warming as it appears to be the biggest threat to human life as we know it. Humankind’s ingenuity has a history of doing amazing things and we shouldn’t back away from doing the big stuff just because of its scale. But the idea of changing the atmosphere does seem too big for my conservative tastes and the unknown consequences potentially too damaging – final even – to experiment with.

What worries me is that the sulphates used in the creation of this global filter might not behave exactly as we predict they might. What if the combination of aircraft fumes and ozone and whatever else exists up in the stratosphere (which is the second layer of the atmosphere), changes the chemistry of these sulphates – alters their optical properties, perhaps, or their stability – and their properties change accordingly? Maybe they become heavier, drop to the troposphere (the bit of the atmosphere just above the ground) and we find rain becoming more acidic.

Or perhaps organisms that have been happily photosynthesising for two or three billion years find the new filtered sunlight unpalatable. That would be the big one. Instantly imposing a new environment on all living things that have evolved alongside an atmosphere that has evolved in tandem with us.

The long-term effects on the environment of pesticides, fertilisers, medicines like antibiotics and of course plastics have only relatively recently started to become apparent, but they are all, in terms of how they enter the environment, on a very localised basis. To treat the world with an instant and all-encompassing spray tan is on a whole different scale.

I know this story is about the development of a clever delivery method and not about SAI itself, but this was the first I have heard of SAI, hence the reaction to the bigger theme.

Incidentally, it’s inevitable with such technology available that ‘madman-holding-the-world-to-ransom’ scenarios would emerge, keeping James Bond in gainful occupation for years to come.

Lorna Sharpe, sub-editor

Rail sector ‘needs to focus on positives’ ahead of Brexit

I went to the Railway Industry Association’s (RIA) parliamentary reception this week – and believe me, the warnings about long security queues are genuine, though luckily I was safely under cover before the drizzle turned to a downpour. Unsurprisingly, there was a generally upbeat tone to the event and a clear message that rail is a business that’s important to the economy, not just a means of getting about.

At one point during the speeches, when business minister Richard Harrington had just invited us to imagine a test track in this country with a business park and a cluster of rail-connected business around it, the senior RIA manager standing next to me whispered “It’s going to be in Wales. The Welsh government is giving it a lot of support.” I made a note, thinking he had given me a tip-off for an exclusive news story, but when I checked the next day I found that it had actually been announced in June. I’d seen the story at the time, under the description ‘global centre of excellence,’ but had visualised some laboratory-style buildings, not a full-scale test track. That goes to show how easy it is to miss some of the exciting things that are happening, even in areas we’re interested in – though I should point out that it’s still a proposal which needs to be fleshed out and justified. The diggers aren’t moving in just yet.

In case you’re wondering, the original British Rail test track at Old Dalby hasn’t closed down. It survived all the vicissitudes of the post-privatisation era, passed through various owners and is now part of Network Rail’s Melton Rail Innovation & Development Centre. Failures hit the headlines, but plenty of good things are bubbling away underneath.

Siobhan Doyle, assistant technology editor

InSight spacecraft begins life on Mars

Exciting news for all you Nasa/space fans out there (pretty chuffed about this myself). On Monday, the space agency’s InSight lander successfully touched down on the surface of Mars and even captured a selfie of itself on the Red Planet.

Six years after Mars was visited by Nasa’s Curiosity Rover, InSight will be the first mission dedicated to the Red Planet’s deep interior and will use its trio of instruments (seismometer, heat probe and radio science experiment) to enable scientists to understand how different its crust, mantle and core are from their counterparts on Earth.

Nasa’s mission control room at California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had been anxiously anticipating its safe land earlier this week, considering it had a seven-minute window in which to decelerate from 13,000mph to just 5mph. Talk about coming to a sudden halt. However, when confirmation came through that it has landed safely, there was enthusiastic applause from engineers and other members working on the project.

The agency’s chief administrator, James Bridenstine, celebrated what he called “an amazing day” and the director of JPL, Mike Watkins, said the success should remind everyone that “to do science we have to be bold and we have to be explorers”.

After many unsuccessful attempts to land other spacecraft on the distant planet, Nasa’s InSight team “can rest a little easier,” as the lander’s project manager, Tom Hoffman, put it. Furthermore, this probe will allow to explore and discover more about the Red Planet in depth, literally.

Rebecca Northfield, assistant features editor

Neural networks blaze through wild animal identification and animation tasks

Researchers have made a deep-learning model that can identify images of wild animals from camera-trap photographs in North America at great speed and with near-perfect accuracy.

Have you ever had yourself caught out by some sort of candid camera moment? Evidence of you mid-sneeze? Or picking your nose? How’s about laughing like an absolute crazy person and having that beautiful, gurning moment captured forever?

I don’t think the animals would like having their vulnerable, unplanned moments snapped on film. If a deer was able to have a mosey through their moments, they’d probably be thinking, “Eurgh, is that what I really look like?! I’m so fat!”

In the university’s latest study, the researchers trained a deep neural network on Mount Moran, UW’s high-performance computer cluster, to classify wildlife species using 3.37 million camera-trap images of 27 species of animals from five US states.

Vitali Vitaliev, features editor

Rail sector ‘needs to focus on positives’ ahead of Brexit

Positive thinking is always a good thing, even at the moment of crisis, yet the beleaguered British railway industry seems to be thinking that positivity can be limited to bragging about its relatively modest (if compared to failures) achievements, like, for example, celebrating the fact that the South East franchise (of which I happen to be a permanently dissatisfied customer) alone moves 450,000 passengers a day. At times, to brighten up the very bleak picture, it goes way too far in its unadulterated positivity.

“Did you know that our British railways are the safest in the world and the envy of the whole of Europe?” my wife asked me recently, at about 9:30pm when she had just arrived home after being stuck for two-and-a-half hours on her commuter train from London. She then showed me an article from that new compact and bouncy i newspaper – all that is left from the former Independent daily. “We are a hugely successful railway”, ran the headline. Underneath it, there were numerous quotes from Robert Nisbet, a “regional director of the industry body for UK railways” (whatever that means), asserting (among other things, by which I mean 43 per cent of all ‘services’ running late and up to 500 train cancellations every day) that the British rail network was indeed the “envy” of Europe.

The article also quoted an anonymous “senior industry source” talking about British Rail’s “very high standard of safety”, second only to that of… Luxembourg! I do understand why the quoted source chose to remain anonymous. Not to be identified and garrotted by angry commuters, whose “recent experience”, as Mr Nisbet himself admitted, might not be “reflected” in his comments. CFL, Luxembourg’s main (and only) train operator, may indeed have great safety records due to the relatively small number of trains (comparable to the size of that mini-state) it operates. As for the British trains, they may be safe for another reason – because they normally do not move.

Indeed, the safest railway scenario is to keep trains stationary – something that the British rail network has been doing very successfully this year. But they wouldn’t be willing to “focus” on that, I am sure.

‘Pint-sized’ Scottish satellites launched into orbit

As someone who lived and worked in Scotland for a number of years and hence has the right to consider himself partially Scottish, I – like all other Scotsmen (including the partial ones) – can get seriously offended by the derogatory simile, coined by Graham Turnock, chief executive of the UK Space Agency, who, according to this story, dared to describe the Scottish-made satellites as “pint-sized”. He must have never tasted a good ‘iron dram’ from a proper Speyside or Glencairn whisky dram glass – and that was what the properly Scottish satellite sizes should have been compared to and expressed in!

Perhaps before the headline is spotted all over Scotland and leads to another independence referendum, it should be changed to ‘Dram-glass sized Scottish satellites launched into orbit’. And if someone decides that the dram glass isn’t big enough, the satellites could be safely described as ‘whisky-bottle-sized’. Why not?

As they say in Scotland, “Slainte”!

Jonathan Wilson, online managing editor

US must lead world in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, says Bill Gates

Say what you like about Bill Gates, but he’s certainly putting his money where his mouth is. Diseases? Let’s cure ’em. Carbon emissions? Let’s reduce ’em. The answers to these problems aren’t all that difficult (relatively speaking). It just takes commitment, a willingness to do what’s required and, of course, money. It’s a sad state of affairs when it takes a team of philanthropic billionaires to address the real issues facing the world, but this only serves to underline the irrelevance of politics and governments in this day and age. Most politicians go into the job to make money for themselves; not to do what’s best for the planet and the people living on it. The sooner people stop looking to the likes of Donald Trump or Jacob Rees-Mogg for selfless, humanitarian leadership and instead set about righting the world’s wrongs for themselves, the sooner we might stand a chance of preserving this planet and surviving on it for many future generations. People power is the only power that matters.

$29 trillion in climate cash potentially available to emerging cities

A related environmental future story, about a heckin’ large pile of World Bank ‘climate cash’ (love that phrase) potentially available to emerging cities in emerging countries. If it means these places starting out on the right path, with a cleaner and greener future in sight, it seems like it would be money well spent.

Google staff protest against Chinese censored search engine project

Just when you thought Google couldn’t get any stupider, it got stupider. Big pay-offs for executives sacked over sexual harassment at work claims? Check. Secret projects working on military drones for the US Army? Check. Collaborating with the Chinese government to create a heavily censored version of its search engine? Check. No wonder its own employees are becoming increasingly vocal – and public – about their dissatisfaction with the company whose own corporate culture motto used to be ‘Don’t be evil’. That was until the need to make money became sufficiently pressing that maybe a little bit of evil was necessary and OK, so it quietly dropped that concept and went off to talk to the US military and the Chinese government, while groping and fondling women in its workplace. NB: other search engines are available.

Dominic Lenton, managing editor

Movember charity rolls out contactless donation badges

The ability to shift relatively small sums of money around without having to dip into your pocket for some loose change or even a banknote must be a boon to the charity sector. Whether you’re sponsoring someone to run a marathon or just contributing to a collection on the spur of the moment, it takes the hassle out of both giving and receiving.

Now the Movember Foundation, the organisation that encourages moustache growing at this time of year, is taking things a step further with the launch in the USA and Australia of smart badges which, when touched with a suitable device, allow a donation to be made.

There are so many other situations where this application of NFC technology would make life a little easier. The only danger, I suppose, is that it’ll become hard to negotiate an office corridor or city street without being assailed by a succession of badge-wearers encouraging you to tap them with your phone.

What we’ll need before long is another badge that responds to the charity one by flashing to confirm that yes, you’ve already given to that particular good cause and no, you’re not just ignoring the eager person approaching you.

Or, more constructively, a solution to self-service supermarket checkouts always pumping out a pocketful of shrapnel in change. Surely it’s feasible, rather than weighing down shoppers with change, to give you the option of just sticking it in a virtual charity collection box instead?

Mark Ballard, associate editor

US must lead world in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, says Bill Gates

Bill Gates is without doubt, the richest man in the world. But it wasn’t so many years ago, he was the one they all loved to hate.

A gnarly old hack once said to me, as though it was a cause for derision; that Bill (if I can call him that) was autistic, and that made him different.

Wassat, I said? Autistic, he reckoned: it means he can’t give a toss. He turned his lips up and came in close. Yeah, its inherent; he can’t help it; he’s gross.

Bill was there at the time, up above us on a screen. It was a press do: him waxing live from state side. Wah waah waa wah waah wah. Wah waah waa wah waah wah. Wa wah Windows waah wah waah wah.

Old gnarly wanted my confidence. To get it he was offering to trade: my trust, for my self respect; with his on both counts a charade.

Picture this, is how he put it. Bill in the boardroom in slacks. Incapable of normal dealings with people. He talks in machine and whines like a cat. His colleagues and suffering wife, flit round him, telling gags, being live. He just talks to his laptop. And he wears jumpers, all the same type.

Oh I said. Ah ha hah. And tried a smile. But a grimace rose like I’d been offered, help with my arm up my back, by a gorilla who wore a cravat, at a picnic where polite haw haw ha was the mode, ah hah hah hah haah hah agh ha haah.

Now it’s bout 30 years later, old gnarly is long gone, gone long and flat. While Bill has half saved the world. And he’s smiling at that.

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