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Voyage to the Bottom of the Seeing

It’s been claimed that in the heady years of old Empire, in the years leading up to the First “Great” War, senior British naval strategists resisted the temptation of introducing new submarine sailing technology into the Royal Navy, convinced that submarine warfare represented a wholly unwanted and cowardly way of conducting the time honoured practice of naval fighting. If allowed, they worried…

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"No war base, no (nuclear) waste dump on Aboriginal land"

Spotted near Woomera, South Australia

[sheparddippy]

Meet Bomber, Praemium's aeromorph mechanic based off the CAC Woomera. This plane never saw WWII, the only two prototypes being sent for scraps, which was almost the fate of Keefee too, until a certain goddess decided to bring him to the island and patch him up.

[newguineatribalart]

An Aboriginal Woomera weapon is also commonly known a spear thrower or Miru. It is a weapon that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity and distance in spear-throwing.

[scotianostra]

Charles Duguid was born on 6th April 1884 at Saltcoats, Ayrshire.

I only learned of this man 4 years ago, and have to say, if ever there was an apt name for a man “Dr Do Good” as he became known has that honour.

Duguid was the son of Charles Duguid, a teacher, and Jane Snodgrass Kinnier, daughter of Robert S. Kinnier, a surgeon, he attended Ardrossan Academy, where his father was Headmaster between 1882 and 1889, and the High School in Glasgow, before studying medicine at Glasgow University he gained a Master of arts in 1905 before going on to gain degrees in Medicine and surgery. Whilst teaching at Glasgow University, Duguid worked as a doctor in the slums of Glasgow, but in 1911 he signed on as ship’s surgeon for a voyage to and from Australia. This experience led him to emigrate to Australia in 1912. His early medical work in the Glasgow slums developed in him a compassion for the underdog which continued throughout his 102-year life.

After settling in Victoria and marrying an Australian lass, who tragically died in 1927, he remarried in 1930, both Duguid and his wife were idealists and humanitarians, the murder of a white man by Aboriginals at Landers Creek, Northern Territory, sparked Duguid’s interest in their rights.

The police shot 17 Aboriginals during the course of the hunt for the murderer, but official records at the time state that at least 31 people were killed. In 1934 he headed to Darwin, but missed his connection from Alice Springs after responding to a request to perform some emergency surgery there and stayed on for three weeks. He was appalled at the way Aboriginal people were treated there and by their poor living conditions.

Duguid’s wife Phyllis, founded the Aboriginal Advancement League in 1935 and Duguid served as President. In 1937, Duguid helped to found Ernabella Mission in the Musgrave Ranges of South Australia. He lectured and spoke in the UK as well as Australia and New Zealand about the conditions of the Australian Aborigines.

Duguid was active in other organizations concerned with the advancement of Aboriginal rights such as the Council for Aboriginal Rights and the Association for the Protection of Native Races. He also led the 1947 campaign against the establishment of a British-Australian rocket testing program at Woomera in the Central Australian Desert. He worked closely with Donald Thompson to inform the public of the harmful effect that this program would have on those people still living traditionally, nearby.

In addition to his work with Australian Aborigines, Duguid helped to found the Australian branch of the English-Speaking Union, of which he was Chairman in 1932. In 1935, he was elected Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of South Australia. Duguid died in Adelaide on December 5th, 1986 at the age of 102.

Check out this link for the full story of this good man http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/duguid-charles-12440

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The Black Knight Satellite

Alright I want to talk about the 'Black Knight Satellite' because it's funny as fuck.

This image is claimed by many to be "the Black Knight Satellite", and it's the centrepiece of a conspiracy theory and very popular with the "unsolved mysteries" sector of the Internet. If you've ever watched a YouTube video about "ooo spoopy" things that people don't understand, you've probably heard of it, and seen this photo.

Like a lot of "unsolved mysteries", the unsolved mystery of the Black Knight Satellite is actually completely solved. We know exactly what it is. We knew what it was before any of the videos about the 'mystery' were ever uploaded. We knew what it was before YouTube existed. We knew what it was from the moment that the photograph was taken by the crew of STS-88 in 1998.

But before I tell you that, let's talk about the claims that conspiracy theorists and UFO-nuts make about it, so we can laugh at them!

The claim is that the object in this image is an artificial satellite of alien origin that has been orbiting the Earth for 13000 years. Supposedly, Nikola Tesla made contact with it during his 1899 experiments with radio waves, but its purpose remains unknown. Spooky! Also, complete bullshit!

In actuality, the strange radio pulses that Tesla picked up were most likely pulsars, which hadn't been identified by science yet. Pulsars aren't machines, they're a type of neutron star, so they're not aliens.

The figure of "13000 years" originated with a Scottish author who was making shit up and later said that he was, in fact, making shit up.

The name "Black Knight" is most likely derived from the Black Knight rocket, a British test-bed rocket/ballistic missile intended for testing the re-entry components of the Blue Streak missile, as part of what would become the Black Arrow program.

If you've never heard of these British spacecraft, it's because the government cancelled the program after just four flights, the last of which put the Prospero satellite into orbit, making us the only country in the history of the world to attain and then abandon the capability of putting satellites in orbit. Because we've been playing "Rule Britannia" on an out-of-tune kazoo for decades and we're unlikely to stop any time soon.

This is a surviving Black Knight, on display in Woomera, Australia, where the program launched from. The last Black Arrow rocket, along with a spare of the Prospero satellite, is on display in the Science Museum in London.

Contrary to what it's name might suggest, Black Arrow looked like a giant flying lipstick. No part of it was black except for the hazard striping.

(This is a mockup, also at Woomera. The real thing is displayed on its side with its fairing open, so it's harder to see its lipstick-y glory)

Basically, all these unrelated elements were glommed together to create the mysterious "Black Knight Satellite."

But what about the object in the photo? What is this mysterious satellite orbiting our world?

It's a thermal blanket from the STS-88 mission. They talked about it as it floated away from Endeavour, and this is readable in the transcripts of the mission. They also took not just the iconic photo, but six photos of the "Black Knight", showing it on course to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up, several of which clearly show it to be just a floating piece of space junk.

[blubushie]

Scrapped unlockable primary weapon for Sniper called The Walkabout. Reminded me of you.

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Walkabout

Oho!!

I wonder what it would've looked like. Rifle or bow? Or something else?🤔

I think a spear would've been cool. Ranged spear... with a woomera!

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Orbital launch capable countries

by maps.and_politics

This post is about the ability of some countries to send objects into orbit using their own launch vehicles.  Also shown are countries that have abandoned their orbital launch projects and countries that have projects in development or planned. The first releases from each country/organization were: 1) ⚒ Soviet Union (1957): Launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite by Sputnik-PS in Baikonur, Kazakhstan 2) 🇺🇲 United States (1958): Launch of the Explorer 1 satellite by Juno 1, in Cape Canaveral. 3) 🇫🇷 France (1965): Launch of the Astérix satellite by Diamant A, in Hammaguir, Algeria 4) 🇯🇵 Japan (1970): Launch of the Ohsumi satellite by the Lambda-4S, in Uchinoura 5) 🇨🇳 China (1970): Launch of the Dong Fang Hong I satellite by Long March 1 in Jinquan 6) 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (1971): Launch of the Prospero satellite by the Black Arrow in Woomera, Australia 7) 🇪🇺 ESA (1979): Launch of CAT-1 satellite by Ariane 1 in Kurou, French Guiana 8) 🇮🇳 India (1980): Launch of the Rohini 1 satellite by SLV in Sriharikota 9) 🇮🇱 Israel (1988): Launch of the Ofeq 1 satellite by Shavit in Palmachim 10) 🇺🇦 Ukraine (1991): Launch of the Strela-3 satellite by Tsyklon-3 in Plesetsk, Russia 11) 🇷🇺 Russia (1992): Launch of the Kosmos 2175 satellite by Soyuz-U in Plesetsk 12) 🇮🇷 Iran (2009): Launch of the Omid satellite by Safir-1A in Semnan 13) 🇰🇵 North Coria (2012): Launch of the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2 satellite by Unha-3, in Sohae 14) 🇰🇷 South Korea (2013): Launch of the STSat-2C satellite by Naro-1, at Naro Space Center

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Heron Necks are Kinky

Monday 12/12/22

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns are a group of birds under the Family Ardeidae (meaning "Heron"). They are all wading birds with long s-curved necks (shaped like the letter S) and spear shaped beaks they use to strike out at prey while watching the water's surface. The "S-curve" is a classic trait in therapods, originating way back in the bird family tree, to even the earliest families of dinosaurs and beyond. Ornithodira is the name given by palaeontologists to include all dinosaurs and pterosaurs, and it means "bird-neck". The S-curve neck allows greater control of movement and flexibility. But mastery of the S-curve had never been taken quite extremes before the Heron.

Spinosaurus, thought to live like modern herons, has a prominent s-curved neck - Scott Hartman

Herons have a very special adaptation to their neck vertebrae that allow them to launch their head forward at faster speeds than other birds, and that is the kink. The 6th/7th vertebrate forms a pivot where vertebrate bends at a 90 degree angle to the previous vertebrate.

Source: Mike Taylor/MorphoSource

As demonstrated in this skeletal diagram, the windpipe does not bend at the same harsh angle as the cervical vertebrae. In many other long necked birds, the trachea tends to be longer than the neck and just coil in the chest cavity, but in herons trachea is in fact shorter than the neck, and just bends around it (Taylor, 2021).

But back to the neck-kink. The bend in the Heron neck allows special muscle attachment to allow the neck to act like a spring. As the bird yanks its neck forwards, elastic potential energy is released and the beak is thrust forward at high speed.

Scientists have likened this mechanical set up as analogous to various "spear throwers" of older cultures. The Atlatl of Central America, or the Woomera of Australia, are tools that give the thrower a greater fulcrum of power to launch spears at greater speeds and power.

Such a technique arising within human technology makes sense, but for it to arise naturally, just seems bizarre to me. I'm not claiming there are divine means that led to this structure at all, but I don't see enough people talking about how fucked up it is that Herons and their relatives have a 90 degree kink in the neck vertebrate.

One more fun fact to end the post with. Some species of heron have developed fishing techniques where they will plop down a small morsel of food onto the surface of the water and if a fish comes up to grab it, the heron will strike and grab its' gullible victim.

So yeah I don't know how to end this post. Herons are cool right?

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The government has said it will store nuclear waste from the AUKUS submarines on defence land. Woomera in remote South Australia is seen as the most likely location.

You ain't foolin anyone, we all know the nuclear waste is going to be stored in Steve's basement in the middle of melbourne

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Jakayu Biljabuborn about 1937

Manyjilyjarra language group, 

Purungu skin group

Punmu community

Martumili Artists

Jakayu was born near Pitu, east of Well 25, and grew up around Kunawarritji, Rarrki and Nyilangkurr, where her father died. In 1963, with her husband and extended family, she met the surveyor Len Beadell, who was grading roads for the Woomera rocket range. This meeting prompted them to join their relatives who were living at Jigalong mission. In 1982 Jakayu moved to Punmu community, where she lives today with her children and grandchildren.

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Transistor Sister #163 April 16, 2023

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This week I’m joined by Dana K of Don’t Back the Front for a membership drive show. Drive time is always fun times at WPRB and if you enjoy the show, now’s the time to show us you mean it with a weekly or monthly gift, or even just a share of our pledge link!

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The Public Interest and Indigenous Rights in South Australia must not be compromised by an untenable Defence imposition of AUKUS military High-Level nuclear waste & nuclear weapons usable fissile material on the Woomera Area

David Noonan’s Submission to the Review of the Woomera Prohibited Area Coexistence Framework 30 August 2024 Contents: Introduction The public has a ‘Right to Know’ who is targeted for imposed storage of AUKUS N- wastes. AUKUS N-wastes are a threat to the Rights of the People of SA to decide their own Future. 3 There is an onus on this Woomera Area Review to see it doesn’t add to a sad…

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Aboriginal spear throwers from North Queensland have Bivalve shells on the handle instead of spinifex. The pins are wood not bone and attached with animal sinew.

They are all flat but vary a lot in width depending on the exactly where they come from. The very thin ones and very wide ones are the most collectible examples. These are the most aerodynamic of the woomera weapons when used.