Thursday, 2 April 2026

Absolute Best And Worst Of Us

Within a couple of hours last night we saw the absolute best and the absolute worst of us.
The best was the Artemis II Mission which saw a rocket lift off to spend the next 10 days in space circling the Moon and NASA and the Astronauts and NASA telling us that they were doing it for humanity and that is a concept which i wholeheartedly agree with because when it comes to the various Global Space Agencies, whether it is America's NASA, the European ESA, Chinese CNSA, Russian Roscosmos,  (Russia), India's ISRO or the Japanese JAXA, they are progressing human kind with every launch and every lesson learnt.
Then, hours later the absolute worst when Donald Trump, the man who chose to start a war while in the midst of negotiating to prevent it, said that he wanted to bomb a country: 'Back to the Stone Ages, where they belong'.
The War, conducted alongside a nation already complicit in War Crimes and a genocide against its neighbour, has so far seen 1,900 people killed in Iran, 1,320 on Lebanon, 30 in various Gulf States, 19 in Israel and 13 U.S. service members as well as the economic turmoil it has unleashed, rather than seek to try and end the war he started, spoke of causing further harm to 90 million people and is speaking of destroying the very infrastructure they need to live.
Those few hours summed up for me that us Human's are capable of creating things of immense beauty and making brilliant innovations and discovery's which drive us forward while at the same time also being capable of horrific, depraved and unbelievable cruelty to each other.