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  • Commented on I can't even
    The 'invasion' of Australia will be through economic coercion. The PRC has tried this to a limited extent over the past few years by blocking particular Australian exports from being imported into China but it seems to have generally worked...
  • Commented on Abolish the monarchy!
    From an Australian perspective, we absolutely need to remove an inherited head of state for one very simple reason - my sons will never have the opportunity to be the head of state of their home. Some other man, close...
  • Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
    I know we're not at 300 yet but two significant events in the past 6 hours or so: The Inspiration 4 mission has successfully launched. The first all civilian orbital spaceflight (and the first US crewed mission to not involve...
  • Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
    I'm quite late to the party but I've always thought the reason why Mars would be colonised is because it is a 'nice place to raise the kids'. That is, it has gravity - the one thing that is likely...
  • Commented on Submarine coming through!
    You have your examples and I have mine. But simply grouping people by their qualifications and stating they are all the same and that sameness is "EEEVVVVIIIILLLL" is tiring, flat out wrong and not something you would say about any...
  • Commented on Submarine coming through!
    Can you lay off the hate for people with MBAs? I have an MBA from AGSM. I also have an undergrad degree in Comp Sci from UNSW. Neither degree defines who I am nor what I believe. At work (a...
  • Commented on Submarine coming through!
    I know this is somewhat late (and glib) but as an Australian I have to say the idea of British politicians leaving their own citizens isolated on an island at the end of the Earth without sufficient resources to feed...
  • Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
    WRT 'Modern' inventions that would change history: Germ theory of disease. Once you've got disease figured out then comes sanitation. With those two down, mortality falls, you don't need to have so many children so more resources can be devoted...
  • Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
    Well - it was past 300 what I posted this originally....
  • Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
    We're past 300 so - Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus. Paper/press conference to be released tomorrow. Authors claim they cannot account for the amount of phosphine with abiotic production alone....
  • Commented on Update to Public Appearances in a time of pandemic
    Just in - Boris Johnson tests positive for COVID-19. BBC News...
  • Commented on COVID-19
    Qantas preferred aircraft for the AU east coast to London/New York direct is the A350-1000 with an extra fuel tank and increased MTOW. AIUI this is technically NOT the ULR variant which is really just a -900 that utilises existing...
  • Commented on COVID-19
    Guess you'll need to wait until Qantas delivers on Project Sunrise then. They've picked the A350-1000 with an extra fuel tank. However, they were planning on making the final aircraft order this month. Who knows what has happened to that...
  • Commented on COVID-19
    I know you want to avoid Heathrow but if you're willing to put that aside, Qantas operates a direct flight from Heathrow to Perth. 17 hours in a Dreamliner. From Perth the flight will take you onto Melbourne or you...
  • Commented on Introducing Dead Lies Dreaming
    Looks like it was an 'accident' by the Iranians https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/10/middleeast/iran-plane-crash-intl-hnk/index.html...
  • Commented on Story time!
    It was HMAS Onslow and the USS Carl Vinson. To quote Wikipedia: The boat's luck changed during the latter part of RIMPAC 98, when on the morning of 10 August, Onslow located the 'enemy' Nimitz-class USS Carl Vinson, closed to...
  • Commented on Typo Hunt: The Labyrinth Index
    Two items in the Kindle edition (not sure if US or UK - purchased from amazon.com.au): Location 337: "..civil servants who run the most powerful human executive office on the planet. (Ahem: the most powerful human office on the planet.)"...
  • Commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
    There seems to be an option no one has considered. Instead of becoming part of Malta (Graydon @29), there's a large South Pacific island that could help out, in a real reverse take over. Become part of the Commonwealth of...
  • Commented on The present in deep history
    How about cosmology and the Hubble Constant. For the first time in human history we have some understanding of the universe around us, how it works and our place in it....
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