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IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIVE NEAR A BLACK HOLE?

If you have seen the renowned film "Interstellar", you probably remember the  protagonists leaving the earth in search for an inhabitable planet near a super massive black hole, but you must know there’s a major mistake in all that.  

 A  research directed by NASA astrophysicist, Jeremy Schnittman,  explains it. In his work Schinttman analyses the probability to find an inhabitable planet at  the right distance from the black hole, in the livable area , heated by the accretion disk . Would you like to know what the mistake in the movie is? You can’t live near a black hole because of the light. What does that mean? The light  I refer to is the light that comes from the surrounding stars . To understand it,  we have to imagine the  gravitational , and in general physical  effects caused by this massive object. First of all the different passing of time. According to Einstein's  relativity , when you are close to an object with a huge mass, the time flows faster . Few hours near the black hole are many years in interstellar space. The second one is the reason why you are reading this article ....  charged particles accelerated by the gravity.

THE LEGEND OF PERCIVAL

Arthur Hacker, Percival with the Grail Cup

Every country, every nation has its own legends and ancient tales and the UK, of course, it’s not an exception.  The Matter of Britain is their legendary epic.

The legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is not only a worldwide known tale, but also an important part of English literary  heritage. I’d like to talk about one of the most prominent characters of the legend, Sir Percival, in a sort of short story. But, before we start, it’s important to note that there isn’t a single version of the story of Percival. There are lots of them  and they are also contrasting, so, to create a story as coherent and enjoyable as possible, I will use as a basis the story narrated in Perceval, the Story of the Grail, by Chrétienne de Troyes, adding to it, at the same time, some elements from other stories, mainly Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach and Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory.

And now, let’s start.

THE DARK SIDE OF FOOTBALL

Every sport has its legends, icons and a dark side that people don’t know. Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan are famous basket players, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic are tennis legends. Soccer has its own icons too,  like Cristiano Ronaldo or Leo Messi, but all of these sports have a hidden side that are not as popular as their bright side. We think that the life of a football player is easy: stellar salaries, Ferraris, big houses and expensive holidays and many of us think that they are heroes or aliens.

SABATON: THE LAST STAND OF METAL ROCK

Hello everybody I’m Francesco and today I will tell you about one of my favourite albums in the metal music world: “The last stand” by  Swedish band  Sabaton.

This album is about famous last stands in history; a last stand is for definition a battle where a small defensive force holds apposition against a much more powerful attacking force.

There are ten songs in this album, and I would like to talk about each one of them.

The first one is “Sparta”; it’s about the battle at the Hot Gates (“Thermopylae” in English and “Thermopylon” in ancient Greek). In this last stand there were about 5, 000 Greek hoplites led by king Leonidas of Sparta and his 300 Spartans against 500,000 Persians of Xerxes I. It took place in August 480 b.C. and lasted three days. The Greeks fought bravely but a traitor called Ephialtes showed to the Persians a way back to defenders. A lot of Greeks retreated covered by Leonidas and his 300 men, who fought until they were killed by the Persian horde.

TEEN HEROES - JAZZ JENNINGS

Hi guys, we all know that to be free and happy we have to be ourselves but for someone it’s not always that easy! Because for somebody being him/herself can mean to go against society.

This is the case of Jazz Jennings a young transsexual woman.

I’m going to use only female pronouns even when telling you about when she was a biologiacal man because in my opinion you can be whatever you feel even if it doesn’t match the gender you were born!!!

She was born on the 6th of October 2000 in south Florida and when she was about five years old she already knew she was a girl and not a boy so she told  her family that she was a transgender girl and luckily they always supported her. We all know that families do not always accept and support that kind of things but fortunately she was born in a family with open-minded opinions and that’s very rare for a Florida family, because that’s a state known to be a conservative one.

MY TOP 5 FAVOURITE ED SHEERAN SONGS

5. GIVE ME LOVE

This song dates back to six years ago and is about necessary love,  which one cannot live without. In the lyrics Ed tells us that love has no limits and that it’s one of the few things that makes us complete. He makes us aware of the fact that love is a beautiful thing that can save us. In the video there’s a disappointed and wounded girl who turns into an angel of love, who with her arrows hits people and makes them fall in love. Love can save us but sometimes it can also hurts us.

I LOVE MANGA!

Useless to say I’m fond of Manga, that’s why I decided to start writing my first post for Let’s Blog! about them. Is there anybody there with the same passion for Japanese manga? I hope you’ll get in touch in the comment section, then.