Wayne Hannigan

Family, Music and the Mountains are all that’s needed.

[Wayne Hannigan @WayneHannigan]

@BronAfon Sounds like you're the anti-social ones here. These young people found a spot, cleaned it up, and tried to use it to improve their well-being by having their own local place to ride, only then for adults and a housing association to complain and shut it down. Poor!

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

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.

[SPORTbible @sportbible]

Lewis Hamilton did absolutely nothing wrong in that race.

It's hard not to feel sorry for him... 😢

[Wayne Hannigan @WayneHannigan]

Don’t agree with this guy often! #F1

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

New F1 World Champion @Max33Verstappen’s Grand Prix win yesterday was thrillingly unpredictable, sensationally exciting, and also completely unfair… @LewisHamilton was robbed by rule-bending officials who wanted to give us all a great dramatic TV moment. That’s not sport.

[Wayne Hannigan @WayneHannigan]

@JDSports DM sent!!

[Wayne Hannigan @WayneHannigan]

@TeamKnowhowUK No, I waited another hour but give up again. I haven’t got time to be waiting hours on the phone. We have been paying for this service for 9 years. Our washing machine has broken down and I have a toddler

[AKMA @AkmaSwansea]

Excited to be hosting our own panel at this years @bigmusicUK Cardiff event. Ask our DJ’s/Producers/Tutors anything 😁 Get your free event ticket now and sign up to our panel. Spaces are limited so don’t miss out. @youthcymru #bigmusic #cardiff

https://t.co/NZ7omNnPrb

[John Hartson @JohnHartson10]

We sold Cork, long term Leon replacement. Sold llorente wages to high. Gylfi wanted to go had to sell. Williams wanted to go had to sell. 67m in player sales and 10m in wages out the door. Reinvestment poor. Recruitment poor. Some honest facts.

[Wayne Hannigan @WayneHannigan]

Absolutely buzzing for @36Johns. Boys got skills 👏🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Wayne Hannigan @WayneHannigan]

Bringing nothing but positive vibes in youth work everyday so please Spare a minute and vote for @youthcymru 😁 https://t.co/n2ANCu01jX

[Wayne Hannigan @WayneHannigan]

@RhysBowler10 Cheers bud. Sorry I saw this late

[ODDSbible @ODDSbible]

Adelaide Byrd driving home from the #CaneloGGG fight last night.

[Anthony Joshua @anthonyjoshua]

From the Lions Den to the Dragons Den, Cardiff here we come! 🐉 #AJBXNG

[Functional7 S&C @Functional7sc]

• 6:15 Strength & Conditioning

• 7:15 Bags Bars Bells

#F7 #Fitness

@sarahhewitt_x @Britts_7 @lukenorman170 @Ceri11thomas @WayneHannigan

[IntroFest @IntroFest18]

Our @AkmaSwansea line up- DJ'ing all weekend! @WayneHannigan #INTROFEST17

[Wayne Hannigan @WayneHannigan]

@HBO @TheRock , Rock and A Hard Place, waaaw! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I myself work in the youth justice sector and I was blown away by this documentary

[Wayne Hannigan @WayneHannigan]

😂👏🏼 https://t.co/gGlt0U4b3w

[ODDSbible @ODDSbible]

Plumbers 1-0 Electricians 😂😂😂

https://t.co/1PG62wT3SP

[Wayne Hannigan @WayneHannigan]

Waaaaaaaw just, Waaaaaw! The mental strength is beyond belief. Amazing from Spieth 😳👏🏼 #TheOpen

[PGA Tour @PGATour]

✔️ Champion Golfer of the Year
✔️ Three-time major champion
✔️ #FedExCup leader
✔️ Still 23 years old

@JordanSpieth has won #TheOpen

[Wayne Hannigan @WayneHannigan]

Thanks to this @BeefGolf poll I now know the names of the two that annoy the fu*k out of me on @talkSPORT ... @TheTwoMikes