Our flight to Tokyo on Hawaiian Airlines featured the ususal take-off view of Waikiki and Diamond Head. The food and service were great.  Started with prosecco, then went on to Johnny Walker Black, sake and Kirin Beer with a Japanese meal.  Followed by cheesecake, Bailey's and cognac. Saw three films.   Guy Richie's The Covenant , which got 83/98 ratings from  Rotten Tomatoes,  really good move, and  Someone You Loved,  a Korean romance film with a different kind of twist at the end.  Unexpected. The last one was  Contact , but the iPad had to be turned off when the plane approached Haneda Airport, so I missed the last few minutes. However, I turned to Google, and  found this article, which tries to explain what happened .,  Left more questions about the reality, except that Jody Foster playing the role of a Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence (SETI) scientist, possibly went through a  wormhole  and returned back again, for this was recorded in 1's and 0's, but was

 It's Sunday and not much happening anywhere of much concern to me.  I could go spiritual, but can't think of anything worthwhile. Two items, though, the tiniest possible, and the second as vast as it can be, caught my attention: Fundamental physicists just reported that a fundamental particle had more mass than expected, throwing the whole field into turmoil. A W boson is supposed to have an energy effect of 80,357,000 electron volts. Hard to believe this is even physically possible, but a team of 400 scientists associated with the U.S. Fermi National Accelerator Lab reported in  Science  that they measured 80,433,000 ev.   This difference of a slightly more than one part in a thousand means that their understanding of nature is wrong! So what is the solution?  Run another 10-year study or two. Then what happens if the Fermi result is confirmed?  Then quantum mechanics will need to find another Standard Model. Perhaps all this bewilderment will someday instead be settled when

Scientist today are still not sure if any virus is actually alive.  Bacteria, yes, and so too humans.  All living forms are mostly water, from 60% in us to more than 90% in some plants. You might have thought that life needs oxygen, and most of us on Earth do.  However,  some bacteria, such as  E. coli , can survive on pure hydrogen .  This is crucial, for there is only 0.1% oxygen in the universe, but 92% hydrogen.  Thriving life has been found at a  temperature above the boiling point of water . In 1877  Giovanni Schiaperelli  of Italy mapped Mars, showing oceans and canals.  Somehow this nomenclature was mistakenly interpreted by some as evidence of life.   Percival Lowell  of the U.S. in 1894, from observation he made, suggested that those canals were created by intelligent Martians to move water from ice caps.  H.G. Wells in 1898 then published  War of the Worlds ,  launching a new genre of science fiction.  Then along came  Orson Welles  with his radio adaption in 1938 that panic