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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Last post by LP -
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Harry needs to raise his knee when someone is backing into the pack to intercept.
Harry is not that type of player, it's never going to happen, not him and not Weiters, certainly not Young. I have to wonder watching Young today, could some of today's decisions push him over the edge, make him a bit more aggressive?

That aggression issue is why I posed the May question in the list management thread, I think we need a player who is, I bet if he returns to the AFL he ends up at the Filth. I've overheard McRae has returned early to go and watch him play again!

As an aside, I watched the Norp players take Newman out of the contest metres off the footy multiple time today. He wasn't really in a position to contest but it's still an illegal action that normally results in a down field free kick, in one case the Norp player had his back to the contest and basically shoved Newman in the throat.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Back to the Moon
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Hydrogen for trucks and cars is laughable.
I hear that coming from the EV industry and it's investors, I don't blame them for making hay while the sun shines(sorry) but it's not likely to last without political interference.

Several WA mining operations are now converting to hydrogen fueled vehicles because it works in remote locations and can perform in ways that EV cannot, they did try EV but the recharging delays and battery degradation became an issue. When you need to go you need to go, and they go around the clock and a long long way. In some operations a 20 minute delay can cost them more than the price of the vehicle!

To me batteries remain the big issue, unfortunately a lot of the battery R&D and manufacturing has occurred in cool climate locations, places it snows and regions that think 25°C is a hot day. The most up to date research has exposed the degradation of some batteries in moderate or hot climates is 300% greater than reported in cool climates, as yet they do not know why it's unexplained, but it's confirmed by the findings in the mines. The irony for Australia is that the batteries are chock full of technology to warm them up correctly, but here the problem is cooling.

As an aside, mining has a project to convert iron ore trains to hydrogen fuel cell, I believe a prototype is already in service.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
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No idea why people think North are easybeats. Apart from Xerri and arguably Logue, they are basically full strength. 4 time premiership coach, excellent young talent, very good experienced recruits and currently sit 3-1.
they were terrible Paul.  We made them look good in the last.  We had many moments we didnt manage well, but the umps gave them an armchair ride and we still should have done more to win that game if not for obtaining the fumbles and making poor decisions.

We actually beat ourselves today.  Melbourne last week beat us, today we beat ourselves.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Last post by shawny -
Quote from: PaulP – on
No idea why people think North are easybeats. Apart from Xerri and arguably Logue, they are basically full strength. 4 time premiership coach, excellent young talent, very good experienced recruits and currently sit 3-1.

Essendon will be good as well when they beat us.

The excuses we make is cringeworthy. We are offically a laughing stock
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Back to the Moon
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Are you worried about the amount of 91 ron required to achieve the mission ?
The boosters are solid rocket motors, the main vehicles is fueled by hydrogen and liquid oxygen with water vapour as the exhaust gas.

Hydrogen is the same technology we should really be using for transport, fast to refill, long range, conventional delivery, water vapour is the exhaust.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Back to the Moon
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Quote from: kruddler – on


I'm not sure what the project was greenlit off the back of, but the amount of things we've learned in the past are still finding new ways of benefitting us today.

Science will find 100's if not 1000's of benefits that will help in unimaginable ways.

Most of the time things like this happen it is to confirm previous suspicions or to help understand specific circumstances.

Whether or not is indulgent probably depends on your relationship to science.
Conversely, your relationship to the army and war (or lack of) may lead you to the conclusion that a nations defence is indulgent.

My relationship with science is pretty healthy.  My question is twofold.

1.  What are its goals?

The progression of science i can see space x doing regarding a take of and landing.   Artemis 2 is going up, orbiting the moon and coming back.  We've done that before, sure they might be testing something.  Not sure, I genuinely dont know the goals.

2.  Is it indulgent?  In the current climate maybe.  The fuel to get it up there when the world is staring at shortages.  

Ive had a couple of responses indicating that im not alone in my thought process, and ive not seen a ringing endorsement for it aside from furthering science.  Thats good enough for me to have warranted asking the question.

Are you worried about the amount of 91 ron required to achieve the mission ?