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Nim
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Yes, him too.
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TSN
I'm... from Earth.
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He has his own Web site, you know. It scares me.
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AndrewR
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The Mount Stromolo observatory (I don't know if any have heard of it) 9 telescopes + heaps of equipment + a device that was just finished and was going to NASA to be used in space was totally destroyed by the fires [Frown]

The telescopes and the instruments etc were just molten metal after the fires decimated the observatory.

There was an old telescope there from the Ninteenth century there, that has gone.

The Mount Stromolo observatory has discovered some remarkable things about the universe over the years. It recently found the oldest star in our universe. I'm sure there is a post over at sci.space.news.

Terrible stuff.

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Curry Monster
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Andrew - I'm in Melbourne.
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Lee
I'm a spy now. Spies are cool.
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There's a Wolf 359 joke in there somewhere. 8)

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TSN
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You'd think they'd fireproof the observatory...
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Sol System
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A news story with picture.

Also: Australian bush fires closed Deep Space Network.
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Shik
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They had the Australian Open on the TV at work today. There was a shot of the sky & you could see massive darkness, even at wherever the hell it is. The smoke's obviously affecting your air quality.

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AndrewR
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The Australian Open is held in Melbourne.

You should see footage from Canberra - you can tell each time it's footage from there because everything is yellow/brown.

At last count 451 homes were lost in Canberra 4 people dead hundreds injured. They showed a man with burns to half of his body in hospital - who was caught out and just saved his daughter in time before the petrol tank of their truck exploded.

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You'd think they'd fireproof the observatory...
You don't get it do you, the observatory was turned to cinders, the telescopes were reduced to molten metal. The flames were an inferno being fanned by 100kmph winds, the temperature was like 40C - well over 100F for you Americans.

I don't think they could have 'saved' or 'proofed' those telescopes.

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capped
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actually, the government controlled media has trained us to be unconcerned with death and pain, unless of course it is americans doing the dying and being hurt, in which case we are obligated to murder and steal.
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AndrewR
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LOL! What? Like the Rodney King LA riots? [Smile]

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AndrewR
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There are now bushfires raging through NE Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales.

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Curry Monster
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I heard something about a 300km firefront building up. But yeah, things down here are very smoggy.
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