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It’s not a picture of me, but of my son... I swore I would never do it on here. But My wife who is with my son visiting her parents in Naples took this picture of my boy (Gennaro) today and I thought it was so telling and descriptive in the manner I love... That I would share it with you guys.

Lost In Space... Old and New

Lol, like two peas in a pod and look-alikes, your son and our wee grandson Kaiden 5+

Nasa's New Horizons probe on course for a historic flyby By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent 2 hours ago The American space agency's New Horizons probe remains on course for its daring flyby of Ultima Thule. When the mission sweeps past the 30km wide object on New Year's Day, it will be making the most distant ever visit to a Solar System body - at some 6.5 billion km from Earth. Mission planners decided at the weekend to forego a possible trajectory change. It means the probe will get to fly 3,500km from icy Ultima's surface to take a series of photos and other data. There had been some concern that the object might be surrounded by large debris particles which could destroy the probe if it were to run into them. But nothing of the sort has been detected and so a wider, safer pass will not be needed. Voyager 2 probe 'leaves Solar System' Saturn probe Cassini is incinerated Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto

You will need a licence to do that, I believe you get all kind of fish, perch, bream, pike, carp, roach, eel, rudd, mullet, Zander from the canals and also the rivers like the amstel and IJ in Amsterdam.

Bad times

That's quite an understatement

Should watch the new one then mate... bit of a twist in that area.. He was a right drama queen in the original, causing all the trouble and then running off blaming others..

Yellow vests in Britain is at the moment largely far right sort of stuff. A fashion for the Tommy Robinson street protesters who have a history of taking to the streets anyway. It's a long way off becoming more but never say never.

Good to see the Robot's still as sexy as he was in the original!

@SirBalon, photos re-sized and cropped.

Nice picture! Obviously following his dad's fashion advice

Most probably May won't be remembered fondly, but hey! it's not like she has good cards. The foolishness on Brexit is all on Cameron and his will to turn petty party politics into geopolitical earthquakes leaving his country at the mercy of foreign third parties and native scalpers. In the context of decomposition of socialdemocracy in Europe, I don't think Labour is doing "that" bad. Not bad at all, actually. But as much as Corbyn is a convinced brexiteer, his party must assess scenarios comparing the crude reality of Brexit and the virtues of the limited, but still very relevant, extra manoeuvrability of the UK inside the EU club and the prospects of change... but under a left-wing approach, instead of under those lazy blairite-tinted -lasses many labour remainers have in mind.

Nice picture mate, the background looks a lot like the south here, never would have thought it was Naples.

Lovely picture.

Looks like he’s about to drop a paragraph or two #chipofftheoldblock

In Egypt last I heard.

Untouched 4,400-year-old tomb discovered at Saqqara, Egypt A. R. Williams 1 day ago During Egypt’s pyramid age, a well-connected man named Wahtye died and was laid to rest in the vast royal cemetery that now occupies the desert west of modern Cairo. His colourfully decorated tomb, apparently intact, has recently come to light some 16 feet (five meters) beneath the sand at the archaeological site known as Saqqara. © Getty The Egyptian Archaeological Mission working at the Sacred Animal Necropolis in Saqqara archaeological site succeeded to uncover the tomb This burial is “one of a kind in the last decades,” said Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, at a press conference that announced the discovery earlier today. "The colour is almost intact even though the tomb is almost 4,400 years old."

ESA's and Roscosmos' ExoMars mission is arguably more important and promising in terms of searching for traces of life as it's been specifically designed for that and is explicitly focused on searching for biosignatures. Nasa's Mars 2020 rover can detect potential organic compounds in rock samples by taking images and acquiring spectra at various scales, but it doesn't have the tools to perform any sort of biological analysis, so it will be basically collecting and storing interesting rock samples from the best possible sites for eventual sample return to Earth to be examined here (if such sample return mission ever happens). Also, its drill can only dig 6-10 centimeters deep (same as the current Opportunity rover), so it's just scratching the surface which is a very harsh environment for organic molecules to survive due to intense radiation and oxidants. Meanwhile, ExoMars rover has a completely different approach - it has been equipped with a drill that can go as deep as 2 meters (!) so the chances of finding preserved organic compounds are better; and it also has a diverse suite of instruments designed specifically for that, including the most advanced mass spectrometer to be sent to space ever and an analytic instrument called MOMA (Mars Organics Molecule Analyzer) that is able to detect organic molecules at extremely low concentrations and will directly target biomarkers and conduct sample analysis on site.

Found an old family pic. I´m the boy.