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Thanks everyone for their contributions so far :thumbup: Xyon could be a politician for his fund raising skills... The forum should have a bar at the top of the page that shows donation progress against our monthly goal. It should only disappear on the rare occasion that we exceed our goal...

Confirming that the domain has been renewed.

No profit = no tax :thumbup: That's an over-simplification, but that's the concept. The ATO has a good couple of hundred pages written on the subject to deal with the details :) Some additional record keeping, yes, but not much more than we ordinarily do as part of normal due diligence anyway...

Almost? I thought he was that AI bot you've been working on... Welcome IronRain :cheers:

That's a fair point and there's no need to rush. We could see where we are at the end of next year. Or better yet, my preference would be to do it at 30 June, since I do the accounts for the forum and I have aligned the accounts with the Australian financial year :lol: Personally, I'm glad that...

Chris Hadfield ejected from movie theatre for loudly heckling Gravity: :lol: BTW, highest recorded wind speed was in Australia at 408 km/h :blink: That was on an island off the coast - highest on the mainland was 267 km/h. Locally, we had 94 km/h yesterday and it's been an unusually windy...

Off-topic posts moved to new thread: Ejecting bombs from bomb bay

Nice. Looks just like you too :)

There are plenty of arguments for surface water on Venus, possibly less than 3.5 billion years ago, and its insolation is 90 % more than Earth's. Plotting the planet on the figures provided by Heller, Barnes & Laconte plonks the planet right in the middle of the habitable zone for tidal...

On a whim, I took the kids to the Powerhouse Museum today. I discovered when I arrived that by good fortune Dr Yi So-yeon was giving a talk about her experiences on TMA-12/ISS/TMA-11. Also, by coincidence, we able able to cap the day off with a rare horizon-to-horizon pass of the ISS reaching a...

Because: 1. That would violate the copyright of the authors of those addons. 2. It makes it difficult for the authors of those addons to provide support because they lose control of the versions of their addon that are available.

Please refer to the OMP sub-forum.

NASA's radiation belt probes named for James Van Allen BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: November 9, 2012 7 NASA has renamed two satellites launched in August for James Van Allen, a pioneering astrophysicist who discovered the radiation belts surrounding Earth...

I couldn't help but chuckle - from the introduction (emphasis mine): I must say that my expectations of life haven't been markedly changed by that satellite :shrug:

I've always had more success getting state vectors from JPL Horizon's and putting those into a scenario, rather than using the orbital elements. Query: Results: 2456202.500000000 = A.D. 2012-Oct-02 00:00:00.0000 (CT) -3.330076566794623E+08 8.529260316982148E+08 1.323505626704913E+08...