The Infinite World

SpaceX is going to up its launch cadence for Starlink in 2020, with the 1st Starlink launch on 4 Jan 2020. It’s going to be a record breaking year for SpaceX if everything goes according to plan. Humanity needs some big exciting things to happen to make life meaningful!

Completed 25 laps 10km at Yio Chu Kang Stadium, Singapore, in a time of 51min 39.4sec. Average lap time 2min 3.976sec. My legs felt fine all the way, but my breathing can be improved, felt winded. I tried to not to let the negative thoughts slow me down today. I was conscious of how my body, legs, felt throughout the whole run, but I had a slight issue with my breathing. Although it was not as though I could not catch my breath, but I kept having a winded feeling. Could have push a bit more in the last 600-800m to get a better time.

All my full marathon timing, all are Standard Chartered Singapore marathon except those in bracket. 1998 5hr 35min 40sec 1999 6hr 11min 2006 5hr 50min 29sec 2007 5hr 31min 07sec 2011 6hr 04min 36sec 2012 4hr 57min 52sec 2013 5hr 16min 31sec 2014 5hr 19min 05sec (2XU) 2014 5hr 16min 53sec (Sundown) 2014 4hr 47min 26sec 2015 4hr 59min 27sec 2016 5hr 27min 51sec 2017 5hr 01min 33sec 2018 DNF ran till 19km plus 2019 5hr 34min 56sec 2022 5hr 22min 11sec 2023 5hr 09min 25sec 2024?5hr 08min 34sec Subjected to change as I am researching into past timing.

SpaceeX completed her 13th successful mission of 2919 on 16 Dec 2019.  The payload was a approximately 6.9 ton satellite for Singapore/Japan customer to geostationary orbit. The first stage booster B1056.3 made a successful landing on one of its drone ship (OCISLY) in the Atlantic Ocean.There will be another launch on 31 Dec 2019 for Starlink 3 with another 60 satellites.

Marathon is hard for the everyday runners who are slow like me. I struggled to finish at the Singapore  Standard Chartered Marathon on 30 November 2019, because I did not put in enough mileage during training. The body need to learn to get used to the distance, it needs to go through the tiredness and the pain barrier as well. Although I did not really stopped running for any stretch of more than 15 seconds, I was just really shuffling very slowly. There is no shortcut to running, you just need to put the body through the paces.

Overcame the DNF fear finally, completed my 14th marathon on 30 Nov 2019, Saturday, in a time of 5 hours 34min 57sec. Although it’s not a good time, I am happy I completed another marathon. I am glad I did not end running marathon with a DNF. The farthest I had gone was about 2hours20minutes before the race, I had to really tell my body not to stop for more than 20-30 sec at any one point. My slow run became more like a brisk walk, but it’s still better than totally loose the momentum by really walking. It was like 9min per km vs 11-12min per km, I would have ended up beyond 6 hours. Now I am thinking should I join Sundown marathon in 2020 ?

The Singapore Standard Chartered Marathon is taking place today, 30 Nov 2019 Saturday, 6pm. This is the first time the Singapore SCB marathon is being held in the evening, hopefully this will help us achieve better finishing time. Personally I have not done sufficient training, I just hope I run to the best of my fitness and ability. The race is starting in 2hr25min time.

SpaceX completed its 11th mission of the year on 11 Nov 2019, it was a Starlink mission carrying 60 Starlink satellites to orbit. It was the the 78th Falcon rocket and the 76th successful launch. The first stage B1048 was launched for the 4th time and recovered for the 4th time. 

I just completed 25 laps of 400m at the Yio Chu Kang stadium in a time of 52min30.6sec according to my Suunto watch. I was quite surprised by the time as I did not look at the lap time at all today. Although it was not fast by any standard, I was surprised because I was not feeling good at all throughout the run. I just wanted to finish the run to clock some distance. It was even faster than the 8km run at the same stadium yesterday. Average lap time was 2min6.024sec and average per km was 5:15. My timing did not worsen as I though it would, I just did not feel good during the run.

I just completed a 8 km run at the Yio Chu Kang Stadium, 20 laps of 400m of the oval, in a time of 42min34.2sec. Average time per lap was 2min7.71sec. Although not a fast time, I was exhausted and is still perspiring profusely. My training is not going too well, and my timing is going nowhere as well. The SCB marathon is coming up on 30 Nov 2019 Saturday evening 6pm start. I am aiming for a 5 hour finishing time and I need to be quite focus to be able to complete in 5 hours. I only had like 3 run of 20km up till now in the last 2 months. I will try my best to finish well!!

The ongoing unrest in One of Asia premium financial centres will lead to its fall from grace! It is going to happen, with or without the current unrest. What they are asking for, is not going to happen. They are just going to lose their shine at a accelerated rate with what they are doing. It is just unwise on their part, and they are just going to make the ordinary citizens suffer hardship. They should think wisely, but with the kind of attitude that can be seen, it’s not happening.

It is hard to imagine “a thing” that popped out of nowhere to explain “everything “! A super condensed dot, that exploded to be become everything.  Please do not ask where it came from.

The R4, the fourth Black Arrow Rocket was launched on 1 April 1972, and successfully place a 125kg payload into a 500km orbit. This could have been in the news if the UK had continued with its own space program, but it was cancelled to save money. What do you think could have been the impact on the UK as a whole if the space program had progressed successfully?

A world threatening event will be needed to give earthlings a common goal! But, the killing will go on, as survival instinct kick in. People will be scrambling for food and safety, in the process killing those who are less capable of taking care of themselves.. Human nature seems to be the culprit of all the killings! Maybe human should put the blame on the creator for creating a living thing with so many flaws! What is the purpose for a faulty creation ?

I just rewatched the 2012 movie Prometheus on cable tv in Singapore. The quest for origin of life became a journey of death. I am more attracted by the technology, spacecraft and space exploration, rather than the search for the origin of life. I think the creature they found are a living organism nightmare, rather the beauty of living things. The. Human in the movie are rather arrogant and adventurous in a reckless way. I do not think at our current rate of technical progress, human can even come close to physically getting to Pluto by 2093, maybe possible by 2300 or beyond to leave our own solar system. 

Because nobody wants to befriend a race that kills its own kind. Humans are likely considered as low life not worth having a second look. But then, anyone at your doorstep from another star system would be way more advanced than human and could probably wipe out earth with little effort. 

Why is Singapore not building one ? It can help to boost standard of athletics, in the warm weather country. 

Majority of humans are just not thinking in the correct way, resulting in so much self inflicted hardship for their fellow earthlings! This goes to show that their educational system is not effective in developing thinking humans! No matter how they think highly of their intellectual abilities, do not matter, they do not know that they are getting their priorities wrong. They resort to killing each other when they cannot resolve their differences. Those at the leadership position abuses their authorities for selfish personal agenda. If those leaders do not think and execute for the common good of their people, then their world would always be in self inflicted chaos!

Rather than to launch a fully functional space craft, why not build a workshop to assemble small spacecraft at the ISS ? Another small station should be put up, and start practicing docking and undocking, till it’s like a normal bus ride. Human need to get the basic space travel right, before thinking about going to Mars or Moon. 

Naval commanders and government think too much, the hardware will not appear using mind power! Build a couple of 80 metres long patrol vessels with guns and missiles, in double quick time to resolve the patrol issue in the gulf. Should not be a problem for a former naval powerhouse!! Think simple, complicated stuff takes time and money !