Mango. Here 'Italy' singing up to the death on the stage.

Mango passed away on 8 December 2014 after suffering a heart attack during a concert in Policoro, province of Matera. While performing the song "Oro", he raised an arm and said "excuse me" to the crowd before collapsing. He was 60.

On 9 December, his older brother Giovanni felt sick during the wake and died at the hospital, aged 75. He is believed to have also died from a heart attack.

History books don't say that Russians are our enemies.

History books (I read them) don't say that Russians are our enemies. It is simply boring propaganda. Please don't buy it.

Tomorrow, someone in Europe will wake up and will be bombarded by the following propaganda: Russians are only bad guys and Russia is the enemy

I am afraid this is not written in the history books that I read.

Can we stop this boring propaganda in 2018? #IStandWithRussia pic.twitter.com/hJRPfJFq8D

— Alberto Sciretti (@InEsplorazione) December 29, 2017

I miei rimedi

Noemi - I miei rimedi

Io sono sempre questa
Tutte le volte che ho bevuto
Che ho fumato, che ho ballato, che ho parlato
Che ho perduto la mia fede nelle cose
Ho una ferita con il segno del suo amore

Tu sei sempre lo stesso (stesso)
Quando dormi, quando mangi
Quando chiedi indietro il resto 

Quando pensi che ti sia tutto concesso 

Quando bruci le tue tappe 

Per raggiungere qualcosa di diverso 

È capitato di confonderti 

Con qualcun'altro che non eri tu 

E forse io, in fondo io, non ero io 

Noi non cerchiamo promesse 

Perché ci basta 

Non deluderci mai 

E desideriamo i desideri 

E sognamo di afferrare i sogni 

E vediamo nel futuro un posto sicuro 

Il presente ci ha trovato assenti 

Desideriamo i desideri 

E corriamo sempre troppo avanti 

Ci illudiamo per restare illesi 

E contro tutte le idiozie 

Ti consegno i miei rimedi 

Ed io mi consegno a te 

Io sono sempre questa 

Tutte le volte che ho creduto 

Di sapere che ho peccato di arroganza 

Che ho cambiato un'opinione 

Pur di avere un'opinione 

E che ho scambiato i tuoi fiori per ortiche 

Mi è capitato di confonderti 

Con qualcun'altro che non eri tu 

E forse io, in fondo io, non ero io 

Noi non cerchiamo promesse 

Perché ci basta 

Non deluderci mai 

E desideriamo i desideri 

E sognamo di afferrare i sogni 

E vediamo nel futuro un posto sicuro 

Il presente ci ha trovato assenti 

Desideriamo i desideri 

E corriamo sempre troppo avanti 

Ci illudiamo per restare illesi 

E contro tutte le idiozie 

Ti consegno i miei rimedi 

Ed io mi consegno a te 

Mi consegno a te 

Ti consegno anche i miei segreti 

Ma non li chiamerei più tali 

Visto che già siamo in due 

A conoscere i dettagli 

E desideriamo i desideri 

E sognamo di sfiorare i sogni 

E vediamo nel futuro un posto sicuro 

Il presente ci ha trovato assenti 

Desideriamo i desideri 

E guardiamo sempre troppo avanti 

Ci illudiamo per restare illesi 

E contro tutte le idiozie 

Ti consegno i miei rimedi 

Ed io mi consegno a te 

Mi consegno a te

Why adding radar capabilities to the SKA would be a force multiplication

From the Battle of Britain to the one for Earth. From the Alexanders to an 'Alexandra' and her prophecies. Why adding radar capabilities to the SKA would be a force multiplication. If only all antennas would be equipped with radar transmitters..

A Royal Observer Corps spotter on a rooftop scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain (1940). In the background, the undamaged St Paul's Cathedral surrounded by smoke and bombed-out buildings.

Historia est Magistra Vitae. If History is life's teacher, this means that the study of the Battle of Britain should serve as a lesson to the future. When the time came, research funds were allocated and the Radar (acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging) and Dowding system won the Battle of Britain, defeating the much larger Luftwaffe forces. Not only a test of our moral strengths but even of technological superiority, where the best technology could track larger numbers of aircraft with a higher degree of accuracy and direct interceptors to them.

"The Battle of Britain might never have been won… if it were not for the radar chain." Sir William Sholto Douglas (1893-1969), Marshal of the Royal Air Force.

Now, behind every best technology very often there is a good physicist and Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt (1892-1973), direct descendent of James Watt who had invented the condensing steam engine, is considered to be the father and its pioneer. 

Coming to the present day, another Alexander, Prof. Paul Alexander, is working on the delicate algorithm of The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world’s largest radio telescope, with eventually over a square kilometre of collecting area. 

Now, it appears as we don't really like impact events due to their physical consequences. We don't like a fist in the face in a pub while drinking an Aspall cider as the impacts of objects dropped during the Blitz. The Nazism had a one-way trajectory impacting with London's values but it may be not alone in the history. 

This time in the background, an artist’s impression of the interstellar asteroid "Oumuamua"

1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua) was a fast-moving interstellar 400-meter long asteroid, rocky or with high metal content. The visitor came from outside our solar system and its surface was dark and reddened just to appear more sinister. Never been gravitationally bound to the Solar System, that object again imposed its one-way trajectory.

This is the reason why I strongly believe that SKA, one of the largest scientific endeavours in history, should become even the Earth's radar and finally implement a real planetary defence.

We need an Earth's radar to detect the possibility and warn of potential asteroid or comet impacts with Earth, and then either prevent them or mitigate their possible effects. 

The fact that no known asteroid poses a significant risk of impact with Earth over the next 100 years doesn't mean that we can postpone the lesson from the Battle of Britain. Impact craters are dominant and evident landforms on many of the Solar System's solid objects and it is worth to remind that in 2004 an asteroid (99942 Apophis) caused a period of concern because initial observations indicated a probability of up to 2.7% that it would hit Earth. Another object, Chelyabinsk meteor saw almost 1,500 people being injured in 2013. Not to mention that a substantial number of potential targets are not being monitored.

Imke de Pater, Professor at the University of California in Berkeley and acting on this article as an 'Alexandra' (Cassandra), wrote: "I further strongly urge to add radar capabilities, since SKA can improve substantially on imaging of asteroids and cometary's halo. SKA is roughly a factor of 100 more sensitive than existing telescopes. If all antennas would be equipped with radar transmitters to a total of 10 or 100 MW, radar observations with SKA could be several times more sensitive than can be achieved with Arecibo nowadays." 

Venice, a maritime superpower

Return from Levant (Gianfranco Munerotto, Venetian '30 guns' frigate, oil on canvas, cm 80 x 60, Venice)

I have recently purchased another masterpiece from Gianfranco Munerotto, a painter who has been dedicating himself to the study of the naval history of the Venetian lagoon for over thirty years.  

" Cultivate the sea, and leave the earth.. "

This phrase, from a sixteenth century doge (Tomaso Mocenigo), is the perfect expression of Venice's symbiotic relationshiop with the sea, and the motto of a maritime superpower.

Return from Levant (Gianfranco Munerotto, Venetian '30 guns' frigate, oil on canvas, cm 80 x 60, #Venice) pic.twitter.com/V0mhpwebLc

— Alberto Sciretti (@InEsplorazione) December 23, 2017