The Great Filter – one possible reason why we may never detect another extraterrestrial civilisation in the observable universe (everyone chill, it’s just a theory). Kurzgesagt says:

Finding alien life on a distant planet would be amazing news – or would it? If we are not the only intelligent life in the universe, this probably means our days are numbered and doom is certain.

Hurray!

Oh wait now.

awesomer

Katie Hannon

On The Ray D’Arcy Show…

…apart from Amanda Knox…

Sinead Harrington writes:

Ray will be joined on the couch by Sarah McInerney, Katie Hannon and Fionnuala Sweeney, the new presenters of RTÉ Radio 1’s The Late Debate….

…Sarah will chat about her shock departure from Newstalk and Katie will discuss some of the biggest issues facing Ireland today.

…Also on the show is 12 year old Allie Sherlock from Cork who will chat to Ray about how she has gone from busking to breaking America! She became the toast of LA this week when she received a standing ovation on The Ellen Show.

Viewers are in for a treat as singer Sean Keane will perform the classic ‘He Ain’t Heavy’ with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

The Ray D’Arcy Show at 10pm on RTÉ One.

Pic; RTÉ

Tuesday’s Guardian (top) and today’s Irish Times

*pushes ejector seat button*

Niall N writes:

Different articles….you only feel like you’ve read the same thing twice…

PS Leave Bond alone, soy boys!

FIGHT!

James Bond has always been a misogynist dinosaur. Now he has to change (Donald Clarke, Irish Times)

Time’s up for James Bond: is 007 too toxic for the #MeToo era? (Ben Child, The Guardian)

Thanks NiallN

A big day for Bodger, in fairness.

More as we get it.

Surveillance memo could be declassified Friday (Fox News)

Meanwhile…

Yikes.

UPDATE:

The House Intelligence Committee has released the memo outlining alleged abuses of secret surveillance by the FBI and Justice Department in the Trump-Russia investigation.

Key points:

* The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the initial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page.

* Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.

* The political origins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the FISA applications.

* DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in the summer of 2016 and relayed to DOJ information about Steele’s bias. Steele told Ohr that he, Steele, was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president.

House Intelligence memo released: What it says (Washington Examiner)

What a night.

A big thank you to, clockwise from top left: ‘Preposterous‘; Neil Curran, Lucky Khumbula, Vanessa Foran and Olga Cronin, our panel on last night’s broadsheet on the Telly.

The show can be viewed in its entirety above.

Two and a bit hours of quality natter.

Our ‘at a glance’ guide:

2:00 – Joanne Cantwell takes over from Michael Lyster
10:40 – The “Grid Girls” out of a job
12:13 – Irish Rugby captain Rory Best attending the rape trial in Belfast
25:22 – “Preposterous’ and his steroid-free rugby career
30:53 – The return of Lucky with a Direct Provision update
55:30 – De Entertainment Slot
1:19:41 – De Papers
1.21.49 – tin foil chat
1:34:21 – Disclosures  Tribunal with the ‘sheet‘s Olga.

Contains some unavoidable ‘effing and blinding’.

Sorry.

Previously: Broadsheet on the Telly

Broadsheet.ie