Interesting things too
Just read Joan Didion's extract to my partner after talking about the fires in LA, as I did so the last week's hot muggy, sleep deprived weather has given way to an overcast sky with slight rain and the odd bit of thunder - perfect foreshadowing for the story.
Just watched The Center Will Not Hold as recommended by @Roker ^^ (thanks).
I found it compelling viewing.
Very interesting - these were urban fires.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-11/fire-experts-asses-l...
velocityjohnno wrote:Very interesting - these were urban fires.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-11/fire-experts-asses-l...
Good read, thanks. Can see plenty of potential parallels here.
udo wrote:
What’s Ivan Florence on about now?
Alana_a wrote:udo wrote:What’s Ivan Florence on about now?
he's karening about divisiveness without seeing the irony. waste of good galv.
basesix wrote:Alana_a wrote:udo wrote:What’s Ivan Florence on about now?
he's karening about divisiveness without seeing the irony. waste of good galv.
I think he's been partaking in a bit of that Howler Head behind him!!
Big chunk of ice heading towards South Georgia Island.
https://www.theage.com.au/world/south-america/worlds-largest-iceberg-on-...
Hi Blackers that is one big bit of ice. Thick, getting stuck on the sea floor for a while. Hope we can see footage if South Georgia cops it.
Another teenager heading south looking for territory. It’ll end up in the Mary River for sure. Been quite a few there over the years.
Elliott Heads is a beautiful stretch of white sand south through Coonar and Kinkuna. Kinkuna is a great camp spot.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-24/crocodile-spotted-at-coonarr-beac...
seeds wrote:Another teenager heading south looking for territory. It’ll end up in the Mary River for sure. Been quite a few there over the years.
Elliott Heads is a beautiful stretch of white sand south through Coonar and Kinkuna. Kinkuna is a great camp spot.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-24/crocodile-spotted-at-coonarr-beac...
That’s getting pretty far south for them isn’t it seeds?
Way way south Goofy. This one was where the dropped pin is. There have been a number that have ended up in the Mary River over the years. (marked with red line) Sightings on the west coast of Kgari also.
That's crazy i use to fish and wade/walk along mangrove mud flats in creeks just near there on Fraser island setting crab pots at low tide.
My friends that live there still would.
Ive got to get back there for a visit, its a beautiful place, i loved living there its just the waves were so shit, the beach is just too long and straight, 99% of time its a barely surfable shore break, and and out the back across a very deep wide channel the bank is so narrow you are lucky to get in a bottom turn before it hits deep water, such a pity. (and truly sharky waters too)
Surfed Indian Head inside corner once and a lousy beachie near Happey Valley once the one time I took a board. It’s not worth taking a board.
Heading up to Orchid in May for a week. Always a good trip.
Happy valley is about the best area along that long beach too, theres a little bit of coffee rock around there, it needs a small east swell for a few days to get any type of banks but then any south swell washes it all away again very quickly.
Indian head has potential but is so sharky, the next beach and waddy have potential, but rarely live up to the potential.
I did see Waddy quite good once on the inside but of course i didnt bring my board, you look at the set up and think it should be like the superbank but its weird, it just sections all the way down the point most of the time rarely giving you time to get one or two turns in.
I was only there for two years though over 15 years ago, so who knows the bank might have really changed now, double island bank is totally different to what it use to be.
I use to see lots of cars with boards on the roof, but only a handful of times seen others surfing.
Nature is so cruel sometimes.
Yeah Waddy does ya head in. You’d think it’d be the longest wave in the world.
I’d like to see what happens when a decent NE cyclone swell pushed in there. I’ve seen two sharks there swim right along the rocks of the point while fishing.
hey Andy-Mac
Question in the US thread was hypersonic related, here's the best simulation I could find regarding if they made surface ships/carriers obsolete. The visuals are what it would look like, there are limitations to simulation, and if you fire enough, one will surely get through? So magazine depth matters a lot.
velocityjohnno wrote:hey Andy-Mac
Question in the US thread was hypersonic related, here's the best simulation I could find regarding if they made surface ships/carriers obsolete. The visuals are what it would look like, there are limitations to simulation, and if you fire enough, one will surely get through? So magazine depth matters a lot.
Cheers VJ.
Will give that a look today. Thanks for posting.
Can anyone at Swellnet confirm this , I’m totally confused.
just checked WSL , looks like it’s true .
I guess when he pulled out of competing this year he lost his spot letting someone else on tour be able to compete at Pipe, but now he has been given a spot as a wild card to compete so he wont be taking away anyone's spot.
I see it as his good deed being rewarded by WSL, plus more viewer's for them if he competes.
Seems like a win win for everyone. other competitor's, JJF, viewer's, WSL, only loser is whoever misses out on the wild card he has been given.
I’ve changed my fantasy pick yet again . First world problems I know .
velocityjohnno wrote:hey Andy-Mac
Question in the US thread was hypersonic related, here's the best simulation I could find regarding if they made surface ships/carriers obsolete. The visuals are what it would look like, there are limitations to simulation, and if you fire enough, one will surely get through? So magazine depth matters a lot.
Thanks VJ.
Watched clip. Very interesting, did not realise that air defence from vessels were so effective.
Simulation had offensive missiles launched from ships on route is my interpretation.
What is deal with flight range of jets from these carriers? Tried to find out online but all a bit inconclusive from my view.
Would scenario change if aircraft carrier had to be closer to land mass it wished to attack for planes to make missions, meaning many more missiles could be launched?
What is really confronting is the money spent on these machines of death.
Geez humans get your act together and learn to live with each other, that money could be better spent helping humanity thrive...
For when one interesting things thread isn't enough.