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Alex

Wed Jan 24 2007, 11:59PM

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I did not take this picture, I found it on the internets:

It's worth sharing.

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Thu Jan 25 2007, 12:33AM

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Tesladownunder wrote ...

A couple of shots of people while I was comet watching with the 1% crescent moon in the backdrop.

Peter

1169683000 10 FT6000 Cometcyclistscrescentmoon

Don't forget Venus.

Chris

Fri Jan 26 2007, 06:29AM

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Mmm Alex, G2V are some of the tastiest.

Tesladownunder

Tue Jan 30 2007, 01:11AM

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robert wrote ...

Quite interesting how this traffic-sign pole broke instead of bending.
The diameter at the point of break is about 20% larger then the normal diameter.

Umm, btw i was riding home yesterday evening on my bike.
Was quite fun, but the wind can be a *little* surprising sometimes...My shoulders still hurt.

Here in Australia we don't find vandalism or theft funny. I don't feel that qualifies as a cool pic in my humble opinion. A lot of stuff we do is illegal or a bit antisocial but we should seek to minimise our impact on others or accept the consequences.

Peter

Michael W.

Tue Jan 30 2007, 01:53AM

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Didn't the sign break from the wind/storm? Thats what I got from it....

ragnar

Tue Jan 30 2007, 03:37AM

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Ya, I think the implication was that it came down in the storm... though I have NFI how the pole circumferentially expanded at the breakpoint... that's cool.

If I ever find a graffiti "artist" defacing my property, I'll make "art" of his collarbones with a steel-waterpipe "persuader" I keep handy. Here in the business park there is no respect for private property... it makes me absolutely ropable when I see graffiti 'tags', when people rip the 3D lettering off corporate logos and streetmarkers, or when people do donuts in the caldesac, ride motorbikes or light fires in the national park nearby, etc, etc, etc.

I think it's a crying shame the police do SFA... At times it makes me so frustrated, I'll wish graffiti was an offense punishable by shooting... and I'll have a shouting match with anyone who tries to justify/rationalize vandalism on the basis of "self expression". Don't "express yourself" on other people's property.

Here, the solution would be to have a boomgate and booth across the entrance to the business park -- anyone and everyone who works in the park would have some kind of ID, and the savings in graffiti removal alone would easily pay for someone to man the entrance.

The only problem is that although all the property in the business park is privately owned, the roads are owned and maintained (or rather, not maintained) by the council. I believe you can publicise private roads, but there's no way to do the converse, so you can't easily control the traffic going through.

If the police came and picked people up who were found doing donuts in the caldesac, or spraypainting mailboxes and signs etc, they'd solve a lot of other problems -- the kind of people who deface private property and do donuts are more often than not the kind of people who have stolen cars, or stolen goods in their boot, or hang around with other petty crims. If you can't get them for murder, then get 'em for tax, I say.

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ragnar

Tue Jan 30 2007, 10:06AM

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I was looking back in this thread's history when I saw the brilliant fuming nitric acid pics... which reminded me of this:

It's a fuming, not-turned-on SSTC. =P

Steve Conner

Tue Jan 30 2007, 10:21AM

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BP, how off topic is it possible to get?

That pole was broken by high winds.

Marko

Tue Jan 30 2007, 02:57PM

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Doh, OT. But again I can't resist not to pimp out the primary coil I wound these days.

uzzors2k

Tue Jan 30 2007, 05:47PM

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Looking good Firkragg, I can't wait to see your coil running.

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