News stories you may find of interest

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Sir David Attenborough writes to Tea Tree Plaza shopping centre, asking for removal of falsely attributed quote

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"If a third of all bees die, then 55% of all the aardvarks in Transylvania will lose three quarters of their legs and the rainfall in Luxembourg will increase ninety-fold until the entire country is made of nothing but water. Also, 74.9% of all humans will die of Judaism." - Theodore Roosevelt, The Waste Land

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Is there a source or are you having a go at me?

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neither

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You are taking your medications aren't you? I ask because it makes no sense and an extensive Google search cannot attribute the 'passage' to Roosevelt or 'The Waste Land' :dork: :dork: Prove me wrong.

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Any star gazers here I wonder

Comet Leonard, aka 'the Christmas comet', has arrived. Here's how to spot it and snap a photo...

Grab a pair of binoculars and find a dark spot and you may catch a glimpse of the "Christmas comet" over the next two weeks.
C/2021 A1 (Leonard), aka Comet Leonard, is an icy interloper from the far reaches of our Solar System that hasn't been seen for thousands of years — and will never be seen again.

Source ~ ABC News Australia

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That underwater volcanic eruption causing tsunami warnings and destruction in the Pacific.

If nothing else, watch the first seconds of the video taken from space of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption on the link below

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Astronomers in a spin over discovery of mysterious object in our galaxy... In early 2018, something in our cosmic backyard blasted out powerful jets of energy for up to a minute about once every 18 minutes for three months. Then it stopped.

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First fully civilian crew set to blast off on historic trip to the International Space Station

Private space travel is about to go to a new level — literally — as the first civilian crew prepares to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS).

The Ax-1 mission, which is a collaboration between SpaceX and another company Axiom Space, is due to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida around 1:17am (AEST) tomorrow morning (April 9) at the earliest.

Space tourism but you have to have the money

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