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The US is testing technology they intend to use to deflect asteroids to use them as weapons today. Just normal stuff.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/26/world/dart-mission-nasa-scn/index.html
On thr now known lines that all new inventions are considered as possible weapons, you are probably right. I think we are down a rabbit hole on this – do we stop innovating? Author of young adult books John Christopher looked at this in his Sword of the Spirits (Prince in Waiting) series. The chosen ruler was science-minded and innovator but the people gathered and threw him out of his kingdom. He went to rule another neighbouring one with no intention I think of developing weapons but it seems a human inevitability. What do we do?
Trme link for request to relist Sword of the Spirits – https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/books/young-adult-fiction/author-a-c/listing/3769677219?archive=1&bof=Q3NRglsZ
This is a negative thought, I’m feeling ironic about two bits of news.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU2209/S00209/austria-returns-ancestral-remains-stolen-by-notorious-grave-robber.htm
…The first repatriation to New Zealand from the Natural History Museum, Vienna, and the biggest repatriation from Austria includes a group of Māori and Moriori ancestors that represent the remains of approximately 64 individuals. Records indicate that 49 of these ancestors were collected by Austrian taxidermist and notorious grave-robber Andreas Reischek who spent twelve years in New Zealand from 1877 to 1889.
And we are returning remains to Australia and a venerable Australian aborigine man has come here to host them and be their kaitiaki I think.
Otago museum to return Indigenous Australian artefacts – RNZ
https://www.rnz.co.nz › news › national › otago-museu…
7 days ago — Six cultural artefacts of Indigenous Australians held in an Otago museum will be returned more than a century after they were taken.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/25/they-belong-to-waramungu-new-zealand-museum-agrees-to-return-items-to-indigenous-australians
US returns remains of 54 indigenous people to New Zealand
https://www.theguardian.com › world › may › new-zeal…
27/05/2016 — Four mummified Māori heads have been returned to New Zealand as part of the second-largest repatriation of indigenous remains in the country’s …
We are getting our world cupboards and closets cleaned and tidy of extraneous artifacts before the great ruination perhaps?
Someones’s trying to tell us something.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/475548/air-nz-blames-inaccurate-data-for-turbulent-launch-of-new-york-flights
The airline blamed extreme weather for disruption to a non-stop flight from New York to Auckland on Sunday.
Fifteen customers, who were supposed to travel on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s flight, had to agree to take alternative flights, to lighten the load in the face of unusually strong headwinds on the way.
It was not the new route’s first hiccup.
Sixty-five passengers on the inaugural flight arrived in Auckland last Monday without their bags, while passengers on a flight – departing from New York on Friday – were told they would have to stop over in Fiji so the plane could refuel.
The winds eased and the flight was able to bypass Fiji.
Air New Zealand chief operational integrity and safety officer David Morgan said the airline had planned for two years in the expectation of a successful launch of its Auckland-JFK airport route.
Flight plans to determine payload had been run over the last year and the airline was hopeful “it had the numbers right”.
However, some factors had arisen such as significantly higher headwinds plus the inability to use Ohakea Air Force base as a backup and the need to fly around cyclones.
(Why wasn’t Ohakea Air Base available to our national airline? Was it something about being closed because of pollution from spray stuff used for fire control? What?)
Good news but is it enough to blow away the smoke. Negative again.
Pampered poodle awakes concern in citizens when goes missing. Lucky to be a dog.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475535/tears-hugs-as-owners-reunited-with-burrito-after-fluke-sighting-by-searchers
Woman with simple mentality goes missing in Auckland on morning walk – found, raped and murdered. We can’t even lead a dog’s life in this country. Could we all find happiness and safety and a good life again.? Watch next week’s episode on television and see. Advert brought to you by your leading entertainment purveyor, mega corpse, the leading maker of fantasmagoria.
Tuvalu neing washed by rising seas. And underwater being menaced by giant bombs! Let us help Tuvaluans? as much as we can, in an orderly retreat to a homeland to turn to as things
become impossible for them.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/475578/international-naval-team-finds-22-huge-world-war-ii-bombs-in-tuvalu-lagoon
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475598/nelson-city-council-approves-rezoning-for-kaka-valley-housing-development
I’m glad i didn’t spend any time putting in submissions. It could be that it is going to be used to suit everyone but I can’t believe that. To make a statement that half would be suitable even would have been something to visualise. Much of Nelson is hills, water and liquefaction can spoil the flat land with present housing.
A planned area for retreat for coastal properties under some sort of lease from a Trust, would be good but the houses will probably be sold off to new people coming to the city or investores and renters. One can’t help feeling beaten round the head about housing.
A development like the co-housing in Ranui could be good.
https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2022/earthsong-eco-neighbourhood-public-tour/auckland/ranui
Or – https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/latest/123602378/tiny-house-coworking-village-looking-for-people-happy-be-part-of-a-tribe
A tiny house grouping. with public park in distance would serve I think. It should be noted that mountain bikers have taken over many of the quiet walking tracks that were available previously. The hunger for more tracks seems immense.
Of only we had a government rather than a bunch of people who spend time in Wellington doing nothing about the important troublesome things and instead thinking up gargantuan ideas that only they can understand. Close Parliament and hold daily performances and debates in a Wellington drama site. Downstage or something of that nature.
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