Back in the mists of my youth, I can remember being told that the Americans had spy sattelites that could read the headlines from orbit on a paper being read by a man in Red Square.
I heard the same old stuff a couple of weeks ago BUT by now, should they not be able to read the tiny little by line crediting the reporter? (Justin Dunski?)
And I was also told, while at school in the 70's fer fecks sake (when most of you wher not even ova) that an area the size of a football pitch is cut out of the Brazilian Rain forest EVERY DAY.
Soooooooo, either the Brazilian Rain forest is a lot bigger than it looks on sattelite pictures, because they still say that football pitch thing, or there is about a four foot square patch of it left, crammed full of animals and native tribes - and the media and David Attenborough have been keeping it quiet because it now turns out that the bloody oceans are the "Lungs of the planet" and they feel silly.
Also I remember being told that computers would mean we would all be doing about 2 hours of work a day and have a lot more leasure time.
Oh hang on...........












