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I took the Thursday before Good Friday off and flew down to visit the folks. Gotta say 1hr plane ride then a 2 hour car ride isn’t great but it beats 9hr drive. This country needs some decent rail systems or something and better air coverage of regional areas.

I think a high speed train between towns would be great..not high speed like the XPT is supposed to be (180km/h my arse) high high speed..of course we would need an arse load of new infrastructure to do that.

My long weekend consisted of much austar, talking to parents, some beer, talking to brother, some car travel and some pool it was pretty good. I also had a tasty garlic sausage roll that I want more of.
I got back on Monday and had a great shower to wash the smoker smell off me then went to Raina’s and watched some sga, talked and had pizza!

I was browsing Digg and noticed this article http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3511818.ece

Its an interesting idea, a databank on the lunar surface that broadcasts back to repositories on earth (perhaps with some sort of auto activation by detecting objects with a sizeable mass on an impact trajectory (my idea))  and contains all or much of the essential information to rebuild stuff. I guess It wouldn’t even need to be on the lunar surface it could function from a satellite as well.

Either way I like the idea.