@Aviation_Intel
That's the PR line. But questions remain as to why Australia is the only nation allegedly having problems with them, and why Ukraine's calls to receive them have been ignored.
Wow. Scott Morrison has only just now "heard" of all these horrible things ...
What planet has he been on?
This isn't a Canberra Bubble. This is much, much worse.
@BeijingPalmer
I guess Singapore and Darwin weren't American civilian targets. But Manila? Or doesn't that count as it won independence from the US in 1946?
@DanielMOakes
According to the AFP, journalists cannot act in the public interest. But does the AFP have issues when a senior minister or assistant leaks a classified Cabinet defence white paper? Where are the raids? Where are the recommend charges? Why double standards? Politically sensitive?
LeoLabs Australia's Terry van Haren: “This is the most irresponsible action we have seen for some years. It is probably at the worst altitude you could imagine, above the ISS at 420 km and just under the mega-constellations. What were they thinking?”
The
#AusArmy
is keen to harvest the imaginations of its soldiers and science fiction, especially
@WarintheFuture
. But it's the job of
@DefenceScience
to put it all the reality test. Out of it is emerging Kath & Carl ... our future soldiers!
Why does a supposed search-and rescue / fishing safe haven have cannons mounted on towers covering the four quarters of a multi-storey, sensor-festooned barracks?
This is Gaven Reef, one of China’s 7 artificial islands in the South China Sea.
I joined another maritime patrol today and saw this - more than 100 Chinese fishing vessels massing up by Gaven alone.
It’s not just about the islands anymore. The swarm is here.
@abscbnnews
@Joe_Hildebrand
History lessons should also include the cutting of national parks rangers by up to one third (the guys who do the burnoffs), and the refusal to meet fire chiefs trying to warn that there is no longer a 'safe' controlled burnoff season as there was 10 years ago.
@ToryShepherd
@AmyRemeikis
"As a father of daughters" ... should I consider deliberately scarring and disfiguring my children to prevent them from overwhelming the moral defences of any male they happen to enter the proximity of?
Russia's ASAT test: “This is about global power rivalry,” says
@mdezwart
“Ask me why do this test right now, and I would ask why the ‘test’ was needed.”
@graham_euan
Sigh. It wasn't named after a capital city. I know it's just a little thing ... but it's important. I was named after an Australian warship that was sunk and suffered casualties while fighting alongside its US allies at the battle of Savo Island.
@Dr_M_Davis
@AusAirForce
But, if can only afford to buy three or so of these things, would it be better spent on something like THAAD? Would that give us something approaching a practical force other than a boutique/artisan one?
I thought Dutton was dead! I mean, he's the Minister for Emergency Management. Didn't see or hear from him during the bushfire emergency. Didn't see or hear from him during the COVID19 emergency. But now someone dares link colonialism with invasion, he's everywhere!
Yes, I should probably point out that I'll be pitching in to help
@CosmosMagazine
tackle digital news from time to time. Great to get back into the sciency-wiency world of inspiration and problem-solving. Even if I only get to live it vicariously through my reporting!
ANU research spinoff Quantum Brilliance has found a way to use synthetic diamonds to drive quantum calculations 💎
Now, the Australian startup
@QuantumBrillia1
has won $13 million to make its diamond-based computing cores shine.
@investible
@ANUmedia
History repeats? Australian steel built the Japanese navy in the 1930s. Perhaps this explains why our iron exports to Beijing continue to rise despite the wolf-warrior rhetoric ... China has two more aircraft carriers under construction
#ehrlichflinders
Ehrlich: if we were to write The Population Bomb today, it would not be such an optimistic book ... and there’d be much more about consumption. We need politicians aiming for and cheering falling growth figures... Perpetual growth is the model of the cancer cell.
We'd better get our best metallurgists figuring out how to detect that low-quality steel delivered by that corrupt Virginia-class supplier. I'm having flashbacks to the "trust me" Manoora and Kanimbla fiasco.
No clunkers:
#Australia
buying ‘highest quality’ secondhand submarines from
#US
, congressman says
Australia to buy up to 5 Virginia class subs to cover a gap in the 2030s before working on a next gen sub with the UK, based on the Astute submarine class.
C'mon Australia ... Don't squander what little time we have left to get on top of
#COVID19
Italy is a clear warning. The US is a template for what not to do. South Korea and Singapore reveal the power of 'tough love'. So ... why are governments hesitating?
So I've started the following list (on a separate twitter account for TweetDeck management): I will share it among my colleagues. And feel free to fire it at those you think will benefit.
@drrocks1982
@geophysichick
@suresh_arvind
#ehrlichflinders
The ‘notorious’ Professor Ehrlich pulling no punches. Australia ... ‘It’s a great country, it’s a disgrace these people are allowed to run it”
@WarintheFuture
@DefenceScience
Scifi is great for stretching the imagination. But cool doesn't always equate with practical. It's something we're learning about exosceletons. Not to mention AT-ATs... as I discussed with
@ASPI_org
@DrIanHall
@NatSecPod
False equivalency is when you put a young woman under house arrest for more than a year for inking a Xi poster and posting it to social media, and when an independent corporation bans an individual equal under the law for inciting insurrection ...
@SWDWilliam
This makes sense. But don't underestimate the value of the patrol boats to give real training value and experience to young officers and sailors. Graduated operational experience - something the USN is lacking!
@sanj971
@deniseprobe
@CNN
It's so hard to be a human in the public eye. Don't let it stop you. , your willingness to share your knowledge and expertise means so much!
If you're interested in how Australia's
#hypersonic
technology is racing ahead, grab yourself a copy of this month's Cosmos Magazine. Thanks to
@HypersonixAU
and
@Dr_M_Davis
for guiding me through this high-velocity deep-dive!
#ehrlichflinders
Ehrlich ... society can change quickly if it has to. GM stopped producing cars to build tanks in world war 2, then started building cars again after. That is the commitment needed now to limit climate change impact
The PLA on Wed released a video of Tibet military command’s live-fire drill on the plateau. PLA also conducted a drill of airborne troops. Yes, these are all aimed at the situation on China-India border. The Indian army will either stop provoking or be prepared to be defeated.
@maz_jovanovich
@eamonhamilton
No. Read the book AFTER the movie. Movies never live up to the expectations generated by your own imagination. But reading the book after a movie can be a revelation, I've found.
@Dr_M_Davis
@usairforce
Grand Slam allegedly 40m earth, 6m concrete. So still up there with the mainstream, according to that graphic. Not sure the modern stuff would produce the same camouflet (cavern) effect, though. I also suspect the modern ones are easier to deliver!
@drspacejunk
I have to admit, such phrasing sometimes automatically comes off my fingertips. But in my recent Moon stories, upon reviewing them an apparition of a certain Dr Space Junk appears with a frown ... and I scramble to rephrase my sentence!
@SamRoggeveen
@VKAbramowicz
@arzandc
I think there is also an argument of scale. Given Australia's enormous coastal and territorial water domain, any vessel will need long-range weapons - and lots of them. There's a long way to go to reprovision those 48 shots in our air warfare frigates.
Iit is because science is getting more complex. Every published paper widens the gap with the high-school educated public just that little bit more ... "Scaffolding", building the bare-bones of a story with minimal words is the best tactic. Those gaps can be fleshed out later.
We are losing the ability to communicate science simply. We need less jargon, fewer acronyms and shorter sentences. In short, use more Plain English. "Science is getting harder to read" | Nature Index
Awww... some poor little wannabe is having a meltdown.... use your words mate, use your words ... let us know what caused your tanty and don’t resort to breaking things and death threats because you can’t get your own way.
Not seen your bats lately? What about Bogong moths?
@conservbytes
modelling shows how the loss of just one more piece in struggling regional ecosystems could mean it's already dead: it just hasn't realised it yet.
@greeningaust
@AusLandcare
Forget a space force. We need a Resliance Corps to deal with the weather, tidal and fire shocks to come. And while COVID19 is supposed to be 1-100 year event, it's now something like 1-25 years due to population pressure and transport networks.
A question that won’t go away, and can only be properly answered by an in-depth post-Covid debate about a national standing/reserve emergency response force, what part the military should play, and how to resource it.
@saline
@ABCaustralia
The US has a bunch of "clunker" submarines because they were built with cheap, low-quality steel instead of the expensive stuff. Naturally, the steel supplier pocketed the difference.
#ehrlichflinders
it’s time for polite, timid scientists to make waves. Australia: ‘Stop censoring your ecologists ... you citizens are paying for science but are being denied access to it by a bunch of idiots’
@CatVanHelsin
@FlintDibble
@DSAArchaeology
Oh, I agree. Any (insert prefix here) Civilisation has nationalist overtones.
But the raw definition of civilisation is what is being questioned here.
@CroakeyNews
We can learn how quickly such a national organisation can be rendered useless by dogma-obsessed politicians. The US CDC's utter failure at the start of COVID is a case in point. Australia's State-based system could not be controlled and embarrassed politicians into action.
I
@maz_jovanovich
@BuchananLiz
So why not a 3D printed, self propelled JDAM? A loitering sonar-dipping rotor? A tethered, recoverable Nulka? A collection of “crows nests” on the horizon? How many of these can fit in an Anzac hangar … and how much extra capability does that add? Needs serious war gaming.
@geoff_p_wade
There's a lot of weirdness going on out there in the China media arena. Just check out this odd (bribe?) to promote this oddly anonymous group's message ...