Xenodimensional

Winnebago warriors

I think that there's a distinct possibility that they are silly enough to try their luck. The US would eradicate NK off the map if they were daft enough to set off one of their firecrackers in an act of war. Some of the US's miniaturised weapons are likely far more devastating than whatever Kim Jong Un and co would be bringing to the table.

I think that there's a distinct possibility that they are silly enough to try their luck. The US would eradicate NK off the map if they were daft enough to set off one of their firecrackers in an act of war. Some of the US's miniaturised weapons are likely far more devastating than whatever Kim Jong Un and co would be bringing to the table.

Nice one Muskrat, prog and Devin are two of my all time favourites. I've had two irl Devin encounters, he's pretty out there. Adding to my previous list: Rocks/minerals Books Musical instruments Cat whiskers $200 when I pass go Mail I've downsized most of my stuff over the last year in the spirit of freeing myself of the burden of material custodianship.

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The powdered, dried sap of many Eucalypts (Eucalyptus Tereticornis is one I've used with great success) is a strong antiseptic and wound healer/sealer. Also makes your mouth nice and Eucalypty fresh. Find some chunks of sap/resin, smash them up a bit then rub them between the palms of your hands. Discard the chunky bits and use the fine powder that is left.

The powdered, dried sap of many Eucalypts (Eucalyptus Tereticornis is one I've used with great success) is a strong antiseptic and wound healer/sealer. Also makes your mouth nice and Eucalypty fresh. Find some chunks of sap/resin, smash them up a bit then rub them between the palms of your hands. Discard the chunky bits and use the fine powder that is left.

An interesting study to be sure but I can't help wonder if this is going to lead to 'thought police' type neural interface technology that will enable future citizens of Earth to make sound moral choices for a reward (a sip of water?). Random brain test anyone?

I was never a fan of her videos, permafried units like her do nothing for the cause.

Suiciety and Head Like a Hole.

Anyone from here going to the Brisbane event?

Great place, great people, great tunes, great art, great times. It was an epic event that's for sure. Bummed I didn't catch any SAB/AE folk but there's always next year. Going home through Kingham Road (National Parks, State Forest, a deer farm, epic hills covered in Xanthorhoea, cows, stunning creeks, rock formations, large scale flood evidence) was the icing on the cake.

A fool and his skin are easily parted.

Vegetable juice.

Try and find a drink that uses Xylitol as a sweetener, it's a different kind of sweetener to the insidious ones like aspartame etc and doesn't have the sickly aftertaste that Stevia has. Acquiring a soda stream to make your own might be a good investment if you think you'll drink a lot of pre-bought soda water in your lemon lime concoctions.

Fusion not fission.

Indeed it was a fine co-mingling of human beings, looking forward to the next one and remember that what has been seen cannot be unseen....

Iceinspace.com.au is a great (Australian) amateur astronomy site and when you join they send out quite informative newsletter emails. Sky Safari is a great phone/tablet app to keep up to date with and to find celestial objects and phenomenon. The real time sky view function is indispensable. I tried some of the free sky map ones and they are good but Sky Safari is worth the coin ($3, $15 & $40 for the three versions, I went for the $15 one). Having said all that despite several attempts at viewing I saw only a few Gemenids. The recent Orionid shower was similarly lacklustre in my neck of the woods. :-/

The talking monkeys pondering the origins of life thing again eh? I find it interesting that the rise of life forms involves a reduction or reversal of entropy. It's been lurking and threatening to derail the second law of thermodynamics for nearly 150 years now.

Intriguing.

Crossing my tentacles that no cosmic events will preclude my ability to attend.

I talked to a few eclipse chasers and they unanimously declared that it was by far the most impressive one they had seen. Underwhelming is the last word I would use to describe what I witnessed. In fact even if underwhelming was the only word left I still wouldn't use it. It was by far the most epic thing I've ever seen and I am a connoisseur and afficionado of epic sights. The Corona and flares were gobsmackingly mind bending. The ideology is one thing altogether (which I won't go into here - needless to say it fulfilled me deeply), but from an astronomical point of view it easily surpasses everything and anything I could imagine I'd see in this lifetime. It was amazing at how much light returned when only a fraction of a percent of the suns disk returned which suggests (to me at least) that you need to make sure you are suitably located to be in the middle of the path of maximum totality for the best eclipse experience possible.

Glad to hear seq folks got a decent show. I watched it from just north of Cairns and I'm already amped to go overseas and see more. Make it your life's mission to see a total eclipse, they're really that impressive.

Fantabulous