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Successful launch, starship made it into their target trajectory in space.

Booster didn't make it - they tried a steep angle of descent and a hard burn - looked like issues with lighting the raptor enginers.
Starlink deploy didn't happen

Waiting on re-entry. Big test coming up for renewed heat shield

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On a lighter note......

Hopefully Scotland centre Joe Ansbro is doing ok after this vicious attack from his own teammate celebrating a glorious victory over Australia

Lock for worst thread derail of the year

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Someone should have probably proofread this a bit better and realised the tagline isn't particularly appropriate in this case

@voodoo much harder to remotely crack SCART connections on coal burner control panels 😉

@canefan said in Greatest kiwi lives:

Katherine Mansfield

An absolute colossus of her field.

Time to dust these off again...

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Lest We Forget

By the way ... just to confirm ... the OP is a quote of Carl Sagan's description of the "Pale Blue Dot" photo...

Dunno if it has been mentioned but 'McLaren'.

Available on Stan.

Watched on plane today.

Life of Bruce McLaren. Racing car driver and founder of the McLaren race car team.

Really liked it.

He the all round nice guy stereotical Kiwi laconic bloke who became the champion driver then created the McLaren race car team with a bunch of other Kiwis and number 8 wire.

Expect there were embellishments but if it was half true (the Le Mans story was different to 'Ford v Ferrari' 🙂 ) it was awesome.

Taken ... shall we say succumbed... too young.

Great Kiwi story. Not just him, but the team.

Well worth a watch.

I didn't see one of these flying over my house today....

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@HugeCarrot2 said in Help with a travel itinerary to NZ:

When in Hokitika the gorge tends to be the popular tourist spot. Hoki in general is quite easy to stroll around as the beach is right alongside the business district,

Hokitika is a great spot to base yourself for the Coast. Very cruisy, enough amenities to have fun, right by the beach.

Pro tip: if you're staying on the Coast, don't get accommodation in a multistorey building or (if you can avoid it) a brick building. The Alpine Fault will let go at some point, and you don't want to be inside one of those if you can possibly avoid it. Timber is your friend.

Thargominda - about four hours east of Cameron Corner (border point between NSW, QLD and SA)

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Just keep the politics to the US politics containment thread. We don’t need that shit taking over the forum. Domestic terrorism comments, political opinions etc

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360620214/ghosts-and-graveyards-trail-tom-phillips

@Nepia said in Vegemite v Marmite:

don't listen @MN5

Some things just never need to be said. His last effort at commenting saw him unable to mildly swerve around an upright obstacle while driving.