I learned from yesterday's Times that P G Wodehouse named the immortal Jeeves after Private Percy Jeeves, who died in the Somme on July 22, 1916. Before the war, he played cricket for Warwickshire as a fast-medium bowler, and was much admired by Wodehouse.
It astonishes me that this is only the second mention of Wodehouse on this blog - must do better!
So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!
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A while back in 2023, Voyager 1, which set out in 1977 to fly by the outer
planets and then head off into the void, stopped sending usable data. I
did a ...
19 hours ago
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