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@Airminded @GrumpyBadger5 @Hush_Kit Yep. Though I had to Google #1’s rego number to be sure.

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@un_a_valeable Terrible, terrible thing to do to one of the most beautiful liners

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@AlogoAgogo @TheBaseLeg @RAeSTimR @eamonhamilton Ah, I thought I first saw it in a Bond film! Was a few years after that before I found it in an old Observer’s Book.

[Railmaps @railmaps]

It’s quite remarkable that fully a century after completion of electrification of Melbourne’s suburban rail network in 1923, painted signs on the walls at Flinders Street station denoting the stopping locations for DDE class suburban steam locomotives are still clearly visible.

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@Norsehound I think so (my sole reason for being on Facebook is to participate in hobby-related groups). They are free for the download.

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@WargamesWtj I’m going to have to get a 3D printer just so I can have a complete Gin Palace collection

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@BadSocialism @Norsehound @SkyVasNormandy @thomasthecat It can work the other way, in 1975 the USN reclassified their big anti-air frigates as cruisers to instantly close the “cruiser gap” with the Soviets. (I’ll bet the pre-1975 US classifications are why FASA games always rated frigates as bigger than destroyers)

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@smolrobots The current Australian Labor government may be the model you’re looking at. Less evil, less corrupt, less incompetent and less weird than their predecessors, but not the repudiation of failed policies you might hope for.

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@BadSocialism You’ve just earwormed me with Kate Bush singing “Ken is the leader of the UFP”

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@svandoren @EoMProject Has that Hitchhikers Guide feel https://t.co/ORQqTe9jpn

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@ReactorAxeMan @nickbradbeer There’s got to be some adventures in trying to map the deep sites on potentially hostile planets. “No, officer, we’re just innocent scientists setting up our seismograph arrays and setting off explosive charges to, ahh, calibrate the sensors”.

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@dsfpspacefl1ght There’s a 1982 sequel: World War Three - The Hidden Story that tries to patch over the bits that had become dated over the previous four years. And note the space shuttle bit he got wrong in the first book (thinking they would launch to orbit from the back of the SCA).

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@EoMProject @Wolf359Project @_Pundus_ Looking forward to seeing how @svandoren handles this bit in the audio version.

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@Norsehound Is this another possible model? https://t.co/F4sDFKMd9m

[Peter Martin @1petermartin]

Take a moment this morning to remember the work of @Asher_Wolf. Without her, and @not_my_debt things might have been different. #tobodebt #auspol

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@BadSocialism Some of those publication dates are very late, how many editions of EoM has Devenish released over the decades?

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@CovertShores I’d guess that’s John Batchelor art.

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@BadSocialism @Norsehound @DragonCobolt @EoMProject Organian projections (observations?) of the future established that their initial intervention was sufficient to put history on the correct track, no further involvement was necessary.

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@BadSocialism @MikeDavisNoNot1 @DragonCobolt @EoMProject As much as having settlements glassed from orbit, I’m imagining colonies dying because supplies of critical resources were cut off. There’s a reason that pergium from Janus VI was such a priority.