Anidav posted:

Maybe he was always like this. Or maybe he knows a spill is coming soon so he wants the history books to know him as Tony the Onion Slayer.

Murodese posted:

In the words of a lecturer, "chemistry research tends to involve mixing two random chemicals and seeing if they explode, then writing a paper about it anyway"

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Camp Gallipoli is a once in a lifetime opportunity for all South Australians to come together on the 100th anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli to sleep out under the stars as the original Anzacs did 100 years ago.

At Morphettville Racecourse families, schools and community groups are invited to join in a special night of remembrance, entertainment, mateship and the birth of that special ANZAC spirit. The venue will have spaces set aside for camping using swags, just like the Diggers did. There will be entertainment, special guests, movies, documentaries, great food options and a very special Dawn Service on Anzac day itself.

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Ticket Prices
Including Meals (Dinner & Breakfast)
Adult – $121

i got banned posted:

Yay nationalistic portrayal of the sweet spirit of war time mateship

Amoeba102 posted:

I was expecting something serious, not light hearted humour.

Kommando posted:

In the early days this is correct, and i direct you to one of my favorite books.

Ignition: An informal history of rocket fuel is a bit of cult book on early rocketry. Long out of print, deadtree copies go for hundreds of dollars and print on demand copies are around the hundred dollar mark. Freely available in PDF though. This book is amazing and you do yourself a great favor by just opening any page and reading the lurid descriptions of pioneering rocket scientists blowing poo poo up and writing down the results.

"Running a rocket motor is relatively easy. Shutting it down without blowing something up is harder. But starting it up without disaster is a real problem. If your propellants flow into the chamber and ignite immediately, you're in business. But if they flow in, collect in a puddle, and then ignite, you have an explosion which generally demolishes the engine and its immediate surroundings. The accepted euphemism for this sequence of events is a "hard start."

http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf

Concerning someone who experimented on one of the most explosive chemicals on earth posted:

If the paper weren't laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, you'd swear it was the work of a violent lunatic. I ran out of vulgar expletives after the second page. A. G. Streng, folks, absolutely takes the corrosive exploding cake, and I have to tip my asbestos-lined titanium hat to him.

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There’s a report from the early 1950s of a one-ton spill of the stuff. It burned its way through a foot of concrete floor and chewed up another meter of sand and gravel beneath, completing a day that I'm sure no one involved ever forgot. That process, I should add, would necessarily have been accompanied by copious amounts of horribly toxic and corrosive by-products: it’s bad enough when your reagent ignites wet sand, but the clouds of hot hydrofluoric acid are your special door prize if you’re foolhardy enough to hang around and watch the fireworks.

Murodese posted:

Murodese posted:

Who... said I was joking???

But no seriously, it depends on the research you're doing. Our Dean has 8? research assistants pretty constantly churning out papers for him, so he has little problem with research output. The type of research they do is also just incremental stuff, rather than developing entirely new solutions. By contrast, a lot of our IT researchers research a specific area, but different topics within the area each time - so you can't just add a bit on and submit a new paper for it.

Plus, there tend to be a lot of A-rank journals for fields that've been around longer (ie. chem) so it's slightly easier to get published in. Compare that with my specialisation, where there is one A rank journal. Publishing 3 papers in it per year would require some kind of bribery, I suspect.

For the academics in the thread: have you guys noticed a massive upswing in the amount of completely fake papers on Scholar? It's become a real problem for me, 80% of results are fake for the topic areas I'm looking at. They literally just get other peoples' figures and use random text generators and publish the result on open access journals, which poisons the poo poo out of Scholar's index.

MaxwellsEquations posted:

Another good read for insane chemistry experiments is this blog http://pipeline.corante.com/, an organic chemist with a ton of experience and pharmacological knowledge. He's intimately familiar with Ignition! as well and quotes it for the more crazy chemical reactions.

Probably my favourite post of his is this lovely thing http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride.php


Another is about a chemical that literally burns sand, chlorine trifluoride. http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time.php

SynthOrange posted:

MIRANDA DEVINE WAS RIGHT (actual guardian headline )

Kommando posted:

In the early days this is correct, and i direct you to one of my favorite books.

Ignition: An informal history of rocket fuel is a bit of cult book on early rocketry. Long out of print, deadtree copies go for hundreds of dollars and print on demand copies are around the hundred dollar mark. Freely available in PDF though.

MaxwellsEquations posted:

Another good read for insane chemistry experiments is this blog http://pipeline.corante.com/, an organic chemist with a ton of experience and pharmacological knowledge. He's intimately familiar with Ignition! as well and quotes it for the more crazy chemical reactions.

Mad Katter posted:

https://www.campgallipoli.com.au/adelaide/


I hope the experience at Morphetville Racecourse includes camping in an overcrowded trench filled with disease and lice, no fresh water, insufficient food, doing a poo in an overflowing latrine while smelling the dead bodies rot around you in shallow graves and being shot at and bombed all through the night.

What a sick joke.

Embarrassing Gallipoli event posted:

Banned Items
Weapons

Embarrassing Gallipoli event posted:

Banned Items
Lasers

SynthOrange posted:

MIRANDA DEVINE WAS RIGHT (actual guardian headline )

Murodese posted:

muyb that av is fantastic and appropriate

Halo14 posted:

Gough Suppressant posted:

I am deeply offended by it, especially given that my posting has significantly improved of late. Might as well just do one line "kill yourself" again

CrazyTolradi posted:

If it means anything to you, I think your avatar/text is more suitable for Splode.

open24hours posted:

Australia to lose its finest tax haven. Relegated to Lord Howe Island status. http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/mar/19/norfolk-island-self-government-to-be-revoked-and-replaced-by-local-council

Les Affaires posted:

Don't forget the explosion that happened at their factory. It was raining Datsun cogs that day.

Splode posted:

I decide to check the DnD thread, skip to the last post, and it's you having a moan about me behind my back.

Yeah I'm the fuckwit

Kommando posted:

How about : Tony does dumb poo poo, looks bad, calls double dissolusion, steps down.
Someone else, a cardboard stand in takes over LNP, electorate votes, sees no-tony lnp and they win the election.
Tony calls leadership spill and loses. All Australians laugh as one.
Gina the Hutt binge eats.

hooman posted:

I loving hate the justification of warrantless metadata extraction.

There are so many metadata requests that having to get warrants for them would grind the system to a halt!

I mean loving seriously? That isn't a defence of not needing a warrant. If police officers can't barge into your home and look through all your stuff for drugs how the gently caress are they going to do their job? I mean, police are barging into homes and looking for drugs every day, if they had to get a warrant to do this, policing would grind to a halt!

This is not a defence, it's not an argument against warrants, if anything it's an argument against the practice of warrantless metadata access. Jesus loving christ.

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The following:
(a) the type of communication;
Examples: Voice, SMS, email, chat, forum,
social media.

Murodese posted:

Am I reading the metadata amendments wrong, or are they storing credit card details used to pay for services?

http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo...plication%2Fpdf