GloucesterBoy

If you're curious about the naming of the Lunar craters, the first full English translation of the Almagestum Novum is being worked on here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1739314565?ref_=pe_3052080_3975148...

Astronomy was of course heavily linked to Politics through the majority of human history, particularly when leaders were advised by court astrologers

Keep in mind that despite Tycho's model having the consensus, there were still Ptolemaic Astronomers.

Galileo improved on Copernicus in the sense that he found evidence against the Ptolemaic model. But the Geocentric position had moved on by then.

It worked really well in London while it had Routemaster buses with the back door that was always open... it meant there was almost no delay when getting on a bus.

wow... what a grim approach!

I've met some elderly people who weren't happy they received free senior passes for travel and wanted to pay like everyone else

That's true - and then there's pregnant women... and sometimes having a seat can make managing young children that little bit easier!

A lot of the new hostile architecture does a great job at making ordinary people suffer.

There has recently been a big problem in London for the elderly - many bus stops have been removed and replaced with bicycle lanes, meaning the elderly have to move a considerable distance to their nearest bus stop.

There was also an issue that TfL was removing seats from bus stops to stop 'yobbery', but leaving the elderly without a place to sit while waiting: https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/elderly-forced-to-stand-...

I wonder how this compares to other cities, e.g. New York

I published a book using AI for checking text and generating images. It still wasn't so simple.

In this article I explain the difficulties of building a book with AI generated art.