Eddy's Good News: Space station news from NASA and Cornwall's solution for christmas trees

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11 Jan 2023, 10:43

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!Be sure to listen each day between 10am and 1pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:

Wednesday 11th January 2023

Reassuring news from NASA who’ve started work on a little space station that might one day save the planet from disaster.

You’ve seen all those films about huge asteroids heading for earth, but it reality it won’t be Bruce Willis who saves us. The last big asteroid to hit the planet wiped out its last rulers, the dinosaurs, but the next one will hopefully be intercepted by NEO, a specially designed spacecraft that will use infra red to detect even the most undetectable meteors. NASA have already tested the ability to divert these potentially extinction event asteroids, the next hurdle is simply to detect all of them because some of these things come from out of the sun - as it were - and don’t reflect light. NEO will have technology that will detect every one of them, so by June 2028 we can all sleep a little easier!

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

This is traditionally the week that sees city and town pavements inundated with abandoned Christmas trees , but if you’re in Cornwall there’s a much better solution than dumping them. Munching them! All you have to do is give them to alpacas or llamas!

Say hello to Mary Harvey, who runs CHAT (Chy Lowen Alpacas Tregaswith) made an appeal for Christmas trees via Facebook and was overwhelmed with the response. Llamas and their adorable cousins alpacas love to graze on hedgerows but there’s precious little of that in winter and Christmas tree spruce, pine or fir leaves are an excellent source of antioxidants like vitamin C, pound for pound more even than oranges and lemons. 

So now, long after our last mince pie has been despatched, these llamas and alpacas of Cornwall can enjoy a festive feast and thanks to all the arboreal donations, will do right through the winter and early spring months.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org