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Not in the least, I still love the outdoors. I've "retired" to argriculture tech and labour support for W.Australian family grain production. We've almost fini
by defrost 10mo ago
Not in the least, I still love the outdoors.
I've "retired" to argriculture tech and labour support for W.Australian family grain production. We've almost finished harvest and I've been doing a lot of scrolling and posting here while hanging about near idle "on call" fire tenders (we had a hundred fires, mostly from lightening strikes, in a single week just recently)
* https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/wa-bushfire-numbers-tell-a-story-that-should-terrify-us-and-galvanise-us-to-action-20260106-p5ns29.html https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/wa-bus...
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yulvSvtFVqc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yulvSvtFVqc
^ Further south than I'm based, and a header fire, not a strike. Okay when caught early - life and town threatening if not.
Oh, yeah: Songhoy Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOValSt7YOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOValSt7YOY
The Mali trip was notable for random types firing weapons at our aircraft while we were running lines with 80m ground clearance - we had to armour the cockpit bellies and stuff the fuel tanks with mesh.
- nullhole 10mo ago> The Mali trip was notable for random types firing weapons at our aircraft while we were running lines with 80m ground clearance - we had to armour the cockpit bellies and stuff the fuel tanks with mesh. Datums can get dull fast but there's adventure inherent in surveying. You should write a book, or at least a chapter or two. "Nadir Point" has a nice ring to it...
- defrost 10mo ago> "Nadir Point" has a nice ring to it... Mine Camps .. with a Long S ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s ) once appealed, but I fear getting cancelled. There was always something happening, whether it was shipboard fires in the disputed parts of South China Sea or India / Pakistan engaging in cross border nuclear tests in our survey zone. That last one followed several of us about for years, anytime we crossed a US controlled border they got interested in how we knew what they didn't ... * https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/13/world/nuclear-anxiety-the-blunders-us-blundered-on-intelligence-officials-admit.html https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/13/world/nuclear-anxiety-the... .. look, we just happened to be there with a 42 litre doped Sodium Iodide crystal pack and 256 channel gamma ray spectrometer just as the tests kicked off ...