Iraq's National Museum Reopens

Iraq reopened it's National Museum today after being ransacked
by a US led invasion in 2003 under the command of George W Bush.




50,000 artifacts of antiquity disappeared in one of the worlds worst,
and concerted cases of erasing 7000 years of human history.

And it was done in 48 hours of unparalleled 'looting'.

Only 15,000 artifacts have been returned.

Archaeologically rich topsoil of Mesopotamia was used to fill sandbags as well.

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For everyone and everything that has survived dark times....

It falls to us to prevent tyrants from destroying our human history.

History is everyone's story. Every heritage is woven into our human history.

At what point will we evolve to the point of preventing history from repeating itself?

More Scat

1 year ago I began leaving, some little and some lengthy, deposits for passerby's to stare at, as they strolled and scrolled around the web.

I recall promising to be regular...but have experienced some....lulls.

I find it strange to see that one year ago blogging seemed to help me get through the winter, whereas silence - peace and quiet is what has been required to get through this winter.

But it is my hope that I continue to leave the odd and unexpected steaming little meadow muffin for you.

Space Scat

Had to share this image and info from the BBC today.

So....an American and a Russian satellite collided over Siberia sending space debris everywhere.

But as the BBC also pointed out, there are approximately 17,000 man-made objects above 10cm in size that orbit Earth - and the number is constantly increasing. This in turn raises the risk of collisions between objects.

Nevertheless, experts say the incident was extremely unusual. The vastness of space means the probability of two spacecraft colliding is very low indeed.

But there are still major capability gaps in current systems set up for this task.

Intact satellites share Earth's orbit with everything from spent rocket stages, spacecraft wreckage to stuff as small as paint flakes and dust.

And that's just in the first 51 years of flinging things into space.

Sweet lord what a messy, self serving species we evidently are.