Recent content by CD Xbow

https://au.news.yahoo.com/bob-carr-slams-aukus-warning-004927660.html Bob Carr encouraging NZ not to join AUKUS pillar II. You know, these are the exact things I would say if I was a bought and paid for asset of the PRC. I can see why he is called Beijing Bob.

Worlds second best budget. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/17/australia-second-world-budget-rankings-canada-imf-data

An article by a scholar who feels a PRC invasion of Taiwan is unlikely. I hope this is the case, but I can't help feeling it is very much a 'best case' scenario driven by logic and common sense. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-china-remains-unlikely-invade-taiwan Nations...

The Turtle is back! MkIII apparently. this time sporting EW gear. I can't imagine the enthusiasm the soldiers must have for being on board the battlefield highest value target. Go home boys, go home and watch reruns of Stalin's Trials, that ever popular soviet era rom-com...

Left is as dead as a door nail, all the actions on the right. Spirit of times.

Proving again what a nasty piece of work she is. She may have misread the room on this one, as you say, bad look suing a women raped on your watch. Not like she is poor or anything, big fat ministerial pension and all those other benefits. She will get in a year or two what I have to eke out an...

The interception of the vast majority of Iran's drones and missiles in the attack on Israel demonstrated a very effective air defence system. It wasn't just Iron Dome, it was layered, multinational and involved aircraft, ships and ground launch facilities. I think it is the largest missile...

It always difficult to tell the poisonous one. Other than Amanita phalloides and a number of other species that produce Amatoxin, most other mushroom poisonings are non fatal. Amatoxin kills you in a week, not quickly. All hot air until the toxicology reports come back.

Fatal poisoning being attributed to mushrooms without any real evidence. It sounds way to fast for Amanita Phalloidies and at a health retreat there must be all sort of dangerous natural materials consumed. On the other hand perhaps there is a little bit of Erin Patterson in all of us. ...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54700-x ".....the Drake Equation typically predicts that there should be many exoplanets in our galaxy hosting active, communicative civilizations (ACCs). These optimistic calculations are however not supported by evidence, which is often referred to...

More about the struggles of physicists and the 'Standard Model', the article goes through most of the reasons the standard model appears incomplete or incorrect. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/15/the-big-idea-are-we-about-to-discover-a-new-force-of-nature

Yes, the Rorschach test analogy was very apt. You see what you expect/want. We all have our filters. Unfortunately the digital world means everything gets politicised so much quicker and so much more, well before those pesky facts come to light. Then when the facts do emerge it's deflection and...

Mighty fine verdict. It even included a submarine gag, which in the context of the case and remembering that very old joke, was a very brave move. I salute Justice Lee. I certainly don't want to ever stand in front of Justice Lee for my indiscretions. Remember folks, he was a fool, because he...

Kurve, shopping centres are filled more with women than men. I would guess something like 80% of adult shoppers would be women, so it may be just odds. Also, some of his actions could suggest he picked softer targets, so he need not have targeted women specifically. Not saying he didn't but it's...

Cosmologist are having a big pow wow to discuss the recent data undermining the conventional view the universe is uniform and the same in all directions. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/14/worlds-top-cosmologists-convene-to-question-conventional-view-of-the-universe To my absolute...