Regina Ray

#maitai #rum #cocktail

At MUSE Fine Art trying a selfie

You are loved again #love #again #signs

#ginko #nature

Greenwich #greenwich #observatory #canarywarf

I was thrilled and it was a pleasure! Thank you!

Wonderful event at the @NHRMuseum Palace House last week with @BSATrust revealing the amazing work of @cchurchartist. It was a pleasure and an honour - thank you! #grateful #photography #inspiredbypeople #eventphotography #honour #royal

For my actors and performers friends @ward_lj #actors #PERFORMER #casting

@robsteed or you both getting smarter and wiser... or is what you said ;) 🤪😜😝

Me and the boy got 20 (twenty) right on University Challenge tonight. Pretty evenly split between us too. The questions must be getting easier.

1️⃣2️⃣ weeks until #TakeoverDay 2023! On Takeover Day 2022, @NatMuseumRN invited home educating families to become Play Consultants, developing ideas to make HMS Victory more fun & playful for children & families. Read the full case study on our website. bit.ly/3E8pZik

When you leave the theatre too late and the shop you need is closed but you and your bestie can still misbehave 🧐🤓😎🤪🤪 #spexshop #picadillytheatre #picadilly #misbehave #nevertooold #londonnightout #londonwestend #westendmusical #westend #moulinrougemusical #voulezvous

In the long list of BBA Photography Prize 2023 #top50 #bbaphotographyprize #iamaphotographer #photograghy #prize

1️⃣3️⃣ weeks until #TakeoverDay 2023! Wondering where to find young people to take part? Takeover Day is completely flexible. You can involve young people of any age group from 0-25, from one person to a whole school! Read our guide to Finding a partner: bit.ly/2DymC5w

@kidsinmuseums Love it!

1️⃣4️⃣ weeks until #TakeoverDay 2023! Never taken part before? Watch our short Guide to Takeover Day film series, which includes tips for advocating for taking part at your organisation and overcoming potential barriers. 🎦 bit.ly/2UGcUUf

@ProfBrianCox Or we are in a shoe box stick on top of their wardrobe completely forgotten and covered in dust; or we are an unfortunate mistake if the universe who is now determined not to repeat it again and create more like us; or they communicate but we don’t understand them

A few more thoughts on the possibility of life beyond Earth. All these thoughts are guesses. The lack of firm evidence for alien intelligence (so far) is sometimes called the Fermi Paradox, and it is a paradox. Put simply, there has been over 10 billion years and there are many millions of worlds in the Milky Way on which a civilisation could have arisen as far as we know. At first sight, one might therefore expect that there should be many civilisations in the galaxy far in advance of us, and we might have expected to see them. Why don’t we (or, let’s be careful, why is the evidence not bloody obvious!)? One answer might be that civilisations never develop interstellar travel. I don’t see any reason why interstellar travel is impossible, and I think we’ll develop it if we survive into the 22nd century. Related - perhaps civilisations don’t ever solve the problems posed by industrialisation and the discovery of nuclear weapons and never make it to the stars. Topical - see Oppenheimer!Maybe just ‘getting along’ as a global civilisation is harder than science. Maybe (see UFO hearings) they are here but we haven’t discovered them or somebody knows but has managed to keep it a secret? Maybe. But if this is the case then at least I can say that the alien civilisations aren’t making their presence very obvious, otherwise my Astronomy colleagues who spend their time gazing at the sky and listening for signals would surely have spotted them! But let’s not rule out the possibility that we just haven’t detected them (or there is evidence but only a few people know about it) but they are indeed here. My guess is that the average number of civilisations in a typical galaxy is low - perhaps less than 1. That’s a guess, based on what we know about the evolution of complex life on Earth. Put simply, it took the best part of 4 billion years here to go from cell to civilisation, and that’s a third of the age of the Universe. I think this MAY imply that, if this is typical (lots of ifs) then the Milky Way may be filled with microbes but not complex living things at our level of intelligence. This would be my guess. BUT make no mistake, I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if a UFO landed in Oldham town centre tomorrow morning and the captain said ‘Take me to the leader of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council’. In that case the Fermi Paradox would no longer be a paradox, I’d have learnt a lot about biology and I could get back to tweeting about other interesting stuff. I’d also ask them why gravity is so weak relative to the other forces of Nature.

@ProfBrianCox Or maybe they are not that much into us and have a girlfriend in another galaxy; or simply don’t care; or consider us microbes; or play hide and seek with us and we don’t have the mental capacity to find them; or we cost all around us simultaneously in multiple dimensions (cont.)

@KensingtonRoyal Happy birthday!

A very happy birthday to Her Majesty The Queen! 🎂

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