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Message 2140651 - Posted: 14 Sep 2024, 9:03:41 UTC

Your doing better than me. All I have is 2 bars of LTE.

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Message 2140660 - Posted: 14 Sep 2024, 13:33:27 UTC

Interesting I had a power and spectrum outage from 2-6 yesterday. I thought it was localized.
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Message 2140668 - Posted: 14 Sep 2024, 19:26:23 UTC
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I remember when a contractor cut a large optical cable just up at the corner from Ryde bus depot, it took almost 4 days to splice it all back together a strand at a time.

Well it's time to get a coffee in.

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Message 2140758 - Posted: 16 Sep 2024, 7:28:07 UTC - in response to Message 2140665.  

The internet outage is still here, someone slashed a fiber optic cable, yeah the police think they caught the 33yr old who may have did the deed.
Wow... with our European personal rights and data protection laws, it is impossible... no... absolutely illegal... to publish such (arrest record) information. Only the police has access to such information in their internal databases, and courts have it in their files. Crazy.
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Message 2140800 - Posted: 17 Sep 2024, 4:50:23 UTC

Mr. McDuck. Police arrest records are almost a public free for all in the United States. Some records are not released while a majority are.

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Message 2140855 - Posted: 18 Sep 2024, 6:58:47 UTC

Another era comes to an end as Tupperware files for bankruptcy.
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Message 2140866 - Posted: 18 Sep 2024, 8:08:20 UTC

What, Tupper is not selling his wares anymore?

It’s not a surprise with Rubbermaid, Ziplock, Glad and the many more products on the market.

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Message 2140867 - Posted: 18 Sep 2024, 8:34:43 UTC

My missus was a great collector of the stuff which is all now packed away. I wonder if it all will be worth something down the track.

Anyhow I'll get back to watching this rising harvest moon.

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Message 2140875 - Posted: 18 Sep 2024, 12:47:42 UTC - in response to Message 2140866.  

What, Tupper is not selling his wares anymore?

It’s not a surprise with Rubbermaid, Ziplock, Glad and the many more products on the market.
They say it's not because of the products but about the younger generations who aren't accustomed to Tupperware parties but prefer online shopping instead. That is cheap, cheaper, cheapest.
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Message 2140878 - Posted: 18 Sep 2024, 13:51:36 UTC

They say it's not because of the products but about the younger generations who aren't accustomed to Tupperware parties but prefer online shopping instead. That is cheap, cheaper, cheapest.

In my opinion Tupperware has been going downhill way longer than I can think. They have been a exclusive brand. My grandmother is the last time I physically seen any Tupperware products. As for commercial advertising? Your guess is good as mine. I’d give it better than a decade or more.

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Message 2140947 - Posted: 20 Sep 2024, 4:06:18 UTC


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Message 2141109 - Posted: 22 Sep 2024, 21:41:20 UTC

Why the ‘Wow!’ signal is probably not be from aliens after all.

Interesting story in Popular Science discussing SETI. Not Seti@home, but the idea of using radio signals to find intelligent life. Here are some excerpts.

“The Wow! signal is fascinating to me because—as of now—nothing has ever come close to explaining it. It’s exactly the frequency you would choose if you were trying to send a radio wave a very long ways through space,” explains Seven Rasmussen, astronomer and author of the upcoming astrobiology book Life in Seven Numbers. “Personally, it’s my all-time favorite possible technosignature,” they add. However, the Wow! signal has yet to be detected again, leaving astronomers wondering what caused this weird observation."

"A lot of things in space actually emit radio waves, and astronomers use all wavelengths of light (radio very much included!) to study the cosmos. For example, radio waves enabled the famous first-ever image of a black hole from a few years back. They also helped Jocelyn Bell Burnell discover a strange type of dead star known as a pulsar, and revealed disks of gas that serve as nurseries for planets around other stars."

"All these natural sources have something in common: they emit a fairly broad range of radio frequencies. One kind of technosignature—a sign of technology, or equivalently, intelligent life beyond Earth—is a so-called narrowband radio signal. Whereas nature mostly produces broadband signals, technology can create very focused messages."

"Some astronomers are still searching for radio technosignatures (including a repeat of the Wow! signal from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius) such as with the Breakthrough Listen project, using radio telescopes like the Allen Telescope Array in California or the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. Yet none of these surveys have yet to find anything more convincing than the Wow! signal, which was both narrowband and at an interesting, possibly specially-chosen wavelength: 21 centimeters, an important wavelength for one of the lines of atomic hydrogen, the most abundant component of the universe."
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Message 2141201 - Posted: 25 Sep 2024, 6:11:37 UTC

Maybe Vincent VanGoh was not that crazy after all...
Turbulent skies of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ align with a scientific theory, study finds
The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind. A new analysis by physicists suggests the artist had an intuitive understanding of the mathematical structure of turbulent flow.
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Message 2141243 - Posted: 25 Sep 2024, 21:36:58 UTC

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me
We pillage plunder, we rifle and loot
Drink up me hearties, yo ho
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot
Drink up me hearties, yo ho
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Message 2141256 - Posted: 26 Sep 2024, 6:49:30 UTC

This would make kids want to go to school.
Deniliquin North Public School cleaner creates dazzling artworks on classroom rug


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Message 2141269 - Posted: 26 Sep 2024, 10:06:21 UTC - in response to Message 2141256.  

Very good!

That's what time is for!!

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Message 2141273 - Posted: 26 Sep 2024, 11:01:45 UTC

The most brilliant artists can be found undiscovered everywhere; they just don't have the time or money to pursue their talents.
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