I was speaking to my mum today, she is getting ready for 2nd jab next week. They're all in Fairfield.
I asked her how the mood was out there ... and encouragingly she said that it's done a 180-flip ... people are wanting/rushing to book themselves in for the vaccine ASAP.
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I asked her why, what changed?
She said the biggest motivator for the people she was speaking to was the notion that the double-vaxxed would be able to go to do things, go to shops, etc. over those who were not vaxxed.
It's a HUGE motivator out there IMO.
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I know there are complexities with this strategy (e.g., privilege access to health, location, vaccine availability, etc.) but mum reckons, well at least for Fairfield and at least amongst her large community network - that this changed people's minds quicksmart.
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I don't mind it as a driver tbh, if it gets more people to get vaxxed then so be it, I support it.
So hopefully vaccine availability remains constant/up and more folks come forward for it.
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so many of you have heard me go on and on about the Lunar far side, and preserving this as a site of importance heritage for a number of reasons, but in particular for the purpose of #RadioAstronomy ...
If not, here's a couple of quick tweets as a recap ...
Due to the axial rotation and orbit of the Moon, the same side normally faces the Earth. This is called the near side. Which means there is a far side as well, the face that we don't see because it always faces away from the Earth.
And while we're on the topic of #Pulsars, an exciting thing happened in the last few days ... the relatively nearby #VelaPulsar happened to glitch again!
Vela is known to glitch every 2.5-3 years, so let's dig in with a short thread on why this is exciting.
Steve runs the Hawkesbury Radio Observatory just near Sydney.
Steve (@Hawk_RAO) is no stranger to using his home radio observatory set up of Yagis to detect pulsars and has previously detected a Vela pulsar glitch in the past!
It truly is amazing that in a world awash with data of oceans warming, reefs bleaching and climate change amplifying - that the Environment Minister (and Govt.) would lobby (and obtain) support from 44 other countries to deny risk categorizing of one of our most precious assets.
Itโs bad enough when leaders sit on their hands and do nothing about climate change.
But when they actively go out of their way to ensure that the risks are not addressed appropriately for their own sinister (and greed-driven) purposes โฆ. Weโll, thatโs criminal.
Theyโll play some weird โChina is trying to get back at usโ card (or some other political angle) instead of just looking at the facts that seem to be abundant and available for all to access:
๐๐ผ oceans ๐๐ผ are ๐๐ผ warming ๐๐ผ
Researching about Karl Rรผmker (1788-1862) who got into a fight with Thomas Brisbane over 4 km^2 on the west side of the Nepean river in 1823.
Henry Bathurst had to get involved to resolve the beef between them.
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Rรผmker eventually held the title of the Government's Astronomer here in NSW, observing lots of objects from the Parramatta observatory, incl. the rediscovery of Comet Encke in 1822.
He went back to EU and published a 12,000-star catalogue of southern skies in 1832.
Sounds like Rรผmker was into a bit of fisty cuffs given he got into yet another fight in England with President of the Royal Astronomical Society, James South, who banned him from working n British Govt. thereafter.
Mons Rรผmker, the lunar massif with 22 domes named after him.
Ohhhh, using seismic data (Marsquakes FTW!) observed by @NASAInSight - scientists have now measured the Martian core to be 1830 km with an error bar of ยฑ 40km!
Unexpected rabbit hole of the Mars liquid core paper from this morning ... chasing down historical papers values of the mean core density (compared with the 5.7 to 6.3 g/cc reported) in reflection of JPLs ephemeris data (which also use Mars mass to establish Asteroid belt mass)
I mean, this might get loads of people talking about WASP-127b at least โฆ
The planet has a radius bigger than Jupiter (though, much less dense), was discovered in 2016 via transit method and orbits very close to its host star every four days.