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But 2028 seems crazy-early to abandon the commercial launch field. I predict it won't, then. BTW, Musk's current big rocket cannot reach Mars with sufficient propellant remaining to land, let alone return. It's not even close to that, and the thing still doesn't properly work, after years.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 10h

BTW, SpaceX's closest commercial launch competitors are clearly going to be Chinese. I suspect it knows that, and knows what it means. Ask the global car industry.

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1/ Donald Trump's interview with Newsmax yesterday shows very clearly that he subscribes to many false Russian-originated claims and conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine and has a strong personal dislike of President Zelenskyy. Here's a full transcript:

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(Still 10%-owned by it's New Zealand founder, I see.)

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Spell it 'Labor' and it's all much the same.

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"Its next closest competitor is US company Rocket Lab, which launched 18 of its smaller Electron rockets to orbit in 2025, but has yet to launch its new, larger Neutron rocket." (I suppose it's now a US company, listed and headquatered in the US...)

"SpaceX, however, is reportedly no longer taking bookings on Falcon 9 beyond 2028. That is because it is transitioning to its much larger rocket, Starship, which reached orbit for the first time on 28 September." First have heard of this.

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'Settler militias' ... then we wouldn't be 'settled', would we, or 'settling'.

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Why would we expect this to be linear?

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As you do, 10 days out from an election.

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It's not a federal responsibility. Distant federal governments are poorly equipped to deliver anything such, except via the largesse of 'local' MPs, with all their inherent biases and corruptions.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 11h

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Smoke from regional wildfires. AFP Infographic showing the level of haze in the region around Indonesia according to CAMS data

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 11h

So what. It blantantly did, in a highly organised way. Where is the NACC? Grounds for one of these never-happen 'exceptional' public enquiries?

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Thanks. Is there are unpaywalled copy of the paper anywhere, preprint maybe, or can I email for a copy? Wondering first did she separate floating vs grounded? Those should have different column crushing/collapse mechanics, if only measuring the height can see. And different collapse debris removal.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 11h

Told ya this is going to be shoot-em-all — the crocs, a few rowers, maybe some floating bits of flood debris.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 11h

Still early? Is, but by the end of September, SOI has been consistently below the old BOM El Niño trigger (-7) for 5 months; rNiño3.4 for 4 months. (That in itself is weird; it's normally the other way around.)

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 15h

Batting, awful; pitching, worse. How much are these guys paid, again?

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 16h

They haven't altered their transaction accounting software, at all?

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 16h

Just a bit. Also Sunni and Shia. Also Saudis have the maddest of mad Sunni.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 16h

I'm playing it up. Winter-Spring has been pretty dry in some places. Was out west of Ipswich this week. Ground there is seriously parched, but farm dams still have plenty of water. So far it's short-term: www.bom.gov.au/climate/maps...

Didn't know this was especially controversial. Unsupported vertical ice obviously has a structural limit, determined by the distribution of internal fractures, especially ~vertical ones. Vertically fractured ice becomes a column crushing problem. Details are what's not known, and consequences?

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One of the components of 'net overseas migration' is returning Australian expats. Another is New Zealand economic migrants. Not much Aus governments can do about either, short of a radical Trumpian attack.

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Seasonal cimate influences are not what they were.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 19h

'You only get one Alan Bond in a lifetime,' Kerry.

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Shades of Cornell. Sydney Uni intervenes in student paper’s sexual assault investigation Kalila Welsh reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/shades-of-cornel…

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Turns out 'data centres' are soft targets too. Who knew.

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Bit road-noisy, still? Knew a long-time director there, from Brissy, returned to run the family civil construction business (really).

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Strongest El Niño on record, by a lot; SOI -20. Weather map shows a broad onshore feed off the unusually cool (dry) tropical Pacific, producing little rain over the Australian continent ... except, err, wait a sec.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 20h

Lets not have federal 'community development' funding, at all. It's highly uneven, unfair, and always a rort.

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(The car has a very large fuel tank...)

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 20h

It was at the Toyota dealership, and no, not part of a package deal!

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 20h

Just paid more for a tank of diesel than it cost to service the car last week. Interesting times.

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Why the behaviour of a very different Australia 75 years ago would be relevant to now isn't clear. Low cost housing construction then was in full-on boom, unconstrained by the absolute the population pressures of today. But we still needed migrant hostels!

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Measured as numbers rather than rate per population, postwar immigration was way way way lower than now. bsky.app/profile/gerg...

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Actually, though widely assumed, it's false.

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Actually that's incorrect, even measured as a percentage of the concurrent population. Two brief spikes were higher than now, but the long averages were not higher. Unclear to me why they would make such a false claim: bsky.app/profile/gerg...

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Yeah, except malicious report? That'd be a concern. Guess happens.

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