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Today’s atomic anniversary
Atomic bomb test, 25 May 1953, Nevada, USA. Codename: Grable Yield: 15 kilo ton (size of the Hiroshima bomb). Grable was an artillery test, fired from a 280mm cannon… and further contaminating land and air with many radioactive elements including plutonium 239 (half-life 24,400 years). This photo (US Dep of Energy) taken from 7 miles…
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Pulp mill project gets Tas Budget support.
Pulp mill project gets Tas Budget support. 20/05/2005. ABC News Online: “Pulp mill project gets Tas Budget support More than $6 million over three years will be spent on initiatives supporting the Gunns Pulp Mill project proposed for Longreach, near Bell Bay in northern Tasmania. The funding announced in the state Budget includes $2 million…
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The World Clock – Time Zones
A handy page for those times when you might not want to wake someone up on the other side of the world.
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Escape from Jangsaengpo
Time flies when you’re having fun – it feels like I’ve been in South Korea for ever. Now I’m at Incheon Airport in Seoul about to get on my plane back to Australia. I miss all the wonderful friends I left behind in ‘Happy, Happy, Happy’ Jangsaengpo already, but I know we’ll meet again in…
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Freaky stuff from the sea I’d only ever seen in doocumentaries. And plenty I hadn’t imagined.
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The fresh seaweed was like nothing I’d seen before
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The weird shit just kept on coming
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I couldn’t read the tofu
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The octopus stall. Usually they have a live one or two crawling around the table looking for water. Wrong.
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This stuff looks great to eat – though I’m a little unsure of what you’d do with any of it.