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20/05/2026
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17/05/2026
🚀 This week — something that has never happened before.
SpaceX is targeting Monday May 19 for the first-ever flight of Starship Version 3 — a completely overhauled next-generation rocket that could help humanity take its first steps on the Moon and eventually Mars.
Starship V3 isn't just bigger than its predecessors. It's a fundamentally redesigned vehicle:
⚡ More powerful Raptor 3 engines — producing more thrust per engine than any previous version
🔥 Improved heat shield tiles — designed for more reusable re-entry cycles
🛸 New in-space capabilities — including something never attempted on a Starship mission before: the vehicle will take a good look at itself in orbit using exterior cameras, testing inspection protocols for future crewed missions
🌕 It's the rocket designed to land on the Moon under NASA's Artemis 3 programme — currently targeting late 2027
Why does this matter beyond the spectacle?
Every Starship test flight is a step toward a reusable vehicle that could dramatically reduce the cost of reaching orbit — from tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram to potentially hundreds.
If Starship works as designed, it could change who can access space, how often, and for what purpose.
The most powerful rocket ever built. Flying for the first time this week.
Drop 🚀 if you're watching the launch! 👇
Bronze Age Miners at the Great Orme in Wales Used Sophisticated Bone Tools 4,000 Years Ago — and We Just Found Out How
⛏️ On the northern coast of Wales — high on a headland above the Irish Sea — there is a Bronze Age copper mine.
The Great Orme Mine.
It has been known for decades. But new research published this week has revealed something remarkable about how it was actually worked 4,000 years ago.
The Bronze Age miners at the Great Orme used specialised bone tools — carefully crafted from specific animal bones, chosen for their mechanical properties — in sophisticated and adaptable techniques for extracting and processing ore.
This wasn’t primitive. This was engineering.
The research demonstrates that Bronze Age miners understood the properties of their tools at a level that we’ve consistently underestimated:
🦴 Different bones were selected for different tasks — some for chiselling, others for scraping, others for scooping
⛏️ The tools show clear evidence of resharpening and reuse — not disposable implements, but maintained equipment
🔩 The mining techniques were adapted to different ore deposit conditions — flexible problem-solving, not rote repetition
The Great Orme mine is one of the largest and best-preserved Bronze Age copper mines in Europe. During its operation — roughly 1800–600 BC — it may have produced hundreds of tonnes of copper that was traded across Britain and potentially into continental Europe.
Bronze Age Wales was connected to a trading world that stretched from Ireland to the Mediterranean.
And the people who made it possible were skilled, adaptable craftspeople — not the simple “primitive” peoples that older generations imagined.
We keep underestimating our ancestors.
Every new study proves they deserve more credit. ⛏️
Drop ⛏️ if Bronze Age Britain surprises you! 👇
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