Jeff Hurlock

Risk management professional

[Tim Burgess @Tim_Burgess]

Those blokes in their billionaire ego space race.

And Dolly Parton quietly went about giving more than 100 million books to kids and helped fund the vaccine
❤️

Be more Dolly

[Jeff Hurlock @jeffhurlock]

@FlyBHX Please register me for flight updates on flight TOM7386 on 2024/07/24 18:25 GMT+01:00 RSRC:101

[Jeff Hurlock @jeffhurlock]

Can I just say in the avoidance of doubt - Liz Truss is an idiot and never to be trusted. Thank you

[Coventry City @CoventryCityFC]

We fought like hell to turn that around, and we nearly did it.

Your noise took us all the way and together we found ourselves on the brink of something incredible.

Our boys did us proud. 🩵

[Jeremy Vine | Here, on Tiktok, Insta & Facebook @theJeremyVine]

I agree with this. #VAR destroyed the #FACupsemifinal. There was no “clear and obvious error” by the officials on the pitch and the 4-3 goal by heroic @Coventry_City should have stood. Instead of being remembered as one of the greatest FA Cup matches in history, it's yet another VAR washout. The offside rule was brought in to stop goalhanging, not to disallow a run by a striker whose big toe is further forward than the last defender. Absolutely gutting for everyone watching.

[Jeff Hurlock @jeffhurlock]

Hi all, I’m doing this next month with friends from work for Young Minds Trust, a great cause. Check out my @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving https://t.co/GZ33P4OMLd

[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.

[Dara Ó Briain @daraobriain]

What a dreadful generation of wet, weak, snowflakes this shower are. An embarrassment to 300 years of parliamentary debate. Would sooner cry for apologies and sackings than actual mount a defence of their own policies.

[Jeff Hurlock @jeffhurlock]

A valiant effort and no shame in our performance. Let down here and there by the referee. Nice to see both teams congratulating each other at the end. There’s always another chance and they are still a young team. Southgate has my vote and stay for the Euros and beyond #ENGFRA

[Jeff Hurlock @jeffhurlock]

@Chelsearory Sorry, but you’re wrong.

[Ryan Reynolds @VancityReynolds]

Hard keeping my mouth sewn shut about this one. ⚔️

[Jeff Hurlock @jeffhurlock]

@rogerfederer Thank you Roger - you will be missed and Wimbledon will never be quite the same #GOAT

[Jeff Hurlock @jeffhurlock]

#horizonslive what untapped potential is there for earth’s energy creation crisis in physics?

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Like so many of you, Michelle and I are grateful to have witnessed Her Majesty’s dedicated leadership, and we are awed by her legacy of tireless, dignified public service. Our thoughts are with her family and the people of the United Kingdom at this difficult time.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I love the Russian people. That is why I have to tell you the truth. Please watch and share.

[Jeff Hurlock @jeffhurlock]

@AlPikeVandriver Wrong trousers I’m afraid

[Sir Geoff Hurst @TheGeoffHurst]

Wow! We’re in the final. Brilliant game. Well done England. Fantastic. #footballscominghome #Euros2021 #ComeOnEngland

[Jeff Hurlock @jeffhurlock]

We will remember them #LestWeForget

[Olaf Falafel @OFalafel]

I made you a Government COVID Slogan generator

[Jeff Hurlock @jeffhurlock]

@RealBobMortimer @DakinRM ‘he’s a heavy lifter’ lol