Elon Musk certainly is a polarising character. I think that he is a complete idiot to meddle in politics (both US domestic and international) and he seems to be driving X / Twitter to self-destruct. And yet, he is also a genius of our times, particularly with what he has achieved, and his future goals, with SpaceX. I think that if he is successful in setting us on the path to Mars colonisation it may well prove to be the most significant achievement in all of history. In fact, I have booked a t…

Trails are long, laborious and sadly often prone to disappointing those hoping for success. But in the spirit of Thomas Edison and all those scientists who needed 999 disasters before the 1 success, the only thing to do is just to keep on trying, the next one and the next one, and sometimes another trial but slightly differently constructed of the very same drug. Whilst we know that trials may never help us, they could help our kids or grandkids. My motto has always been “never give up”.