Posts by Paul Campbell
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Of you're a SciFi fan and in Melbourne make sure you visit Minotaur http://www.minotaur.com.au/
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well we the taxpayers are fronting up $300m - you don't think we should get something for it? after spending that sort of dosh you think we should have to pay to see it on TV as well?
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And for those of us who couldn't care a rat's arse - can we have something else on a channel somewhere?
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I think you're deliberately misunderstanding my meaning - it doesn't matter whether it's legal or not - it's the person leaving who chooses to go in the first place - they select themselves, while the people they leave behind don't.
In fact I'd actually argue the opposite - it's much much harder for a kid in a poor village in Mexico to leave his or her home, travel north, brave the coyotes and crossing into the US, and find a job and live in the US illegally in a land where they don't yet know the language than it is for some kiwi kid who's fresh out of Uni to hop a plane and find themselves in a Earls Court pub surrounded with old mates. That mexican kid has demonstrated a drive and determination that clearly puts them to the head of the class.
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Most people who move country's today are self selected - they've decided to get up and move the people they left back at home didn't - that's 'self selection' - sure if they do it with a gun to their head it's not - but largely the kiwi who decides to take his or her OE in London or the mexican who jumps the fence into the US are doing so by choice - sure there are economic pressures but not everyone goes - it's always scary at some level - some people have the get up and go to do it and some don't
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Since this is the PA Friday and this is relevant to the previous post I offer this
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Sometimes a rocket is just a rocket?
Play with these long enough and you've heard all the Freud jokes - sometimes a rocket is just a rocket - some people do it for the challenge of building something cool, others just like the big noise.
As I said above rockets go wrong easily, and usually spectacularly in front of your friends leaving you looking sheepish and feeling foolish while everyone else is whooping it up .... a lot of people get discouraged and don't come back - you have to develop a sort of zen acceptance of failure to keep at this game.
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now you see I walk through a hardware store and see things shaped like that and start to dream .... that link above is what happens when someone comes across concrete pipe formers in a mitre-10 equivalent
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here's the link I always give people who wonder 'how big' - my biggest project has only been about 4m long (one has to give serious consideration to such important design issues such as "how to get it in the car")