Thanks! I may well look into that, if I ever do get around to expanding the scareships site. It’s been pretty dead for the last couple of years though …

Brett, if you are still looking into breaking the 1902 barrier, there is a pretty detailed hack incorporating the AdoDB Date time Library in this forum thread. It’s an old thread though, so the versions they are talking about are out of date. Still, it’s the only option I’ve seen.

Incidentally, AdoDB support is currently listed in the ideas section. If you are interested in this happening, you might want to go and put your two cents in.

xx La

Yes, Rachel was my supervisor, though she wasn’t a professor back when I started — I was actually in her second batch of honours students at Melbourne, and her first batch of postgraduate students, which is to say a long time ago now! I somehow managed to avoid being taught by Joshi in my physics career; when I took GR it was taught by the late (and lamented!) Geoff Opat. Which was a joy, actually, certainly compared to the two QMs …

I think MARC is a good choice (aside from the specifics of project and supervisor, of course); they always seemed to have a strong group identity and supported their students well. Much like Astro actually. Anyway, good luck!

Hi Brett,

Found your site via LP as I was wondering where you started your physics PhD/Masters.

Noticed it was in Astro at Melbourne. who was your supervisor? Prof. Rachel Webster? So I guess you got a bit sick of intergalatic dust? ;)

As you might have noted in the LP thread, i’m currently toying with the idea of a PhD in physics. I’d be going into the MARC/Quantum Computer group with Jeff McCallum.

oh, and Girish is still teaching GR. exam in a week! yay for riemann tensors and naked singularities!

all the best.

Michael D

Hey B,

when are you leaving? im going out field for a couple of days pretending to be a leader.

PTE Holman

signing off

Well, there is now, Pvt Holman! Thanks bro.

Brett,

I only had time to have a quick look at your site but as far as my simple mind can tell it very impressive, although i couldn’t help but notice that there is nothing about me on here.

take care on your travels

Leeroy

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Totally, and it’s still a concern today of course. I wonder why the Brits would have been so worried about that? I thought maybe the Soviets didn’t have any other way to deliver nukes (pre-missile days, just), but by 1949 they did have Tu-4 bombers that could reach London. Maybe there was some confidence in the RAF’s air defences, even if they could not guarantee stopping an attack, so they worried more about the attacks they couldn’t stop?

Brett, thinking of the idea of London’s special vulnerability reminded me of the nuking of the Monte Bello Islands. Apparently (it’s in _Test of Greatness_) Bill Penney was worried that the most likely form of sneak nuclear attack that Britain would face would take the form of the detonation of a bomb hidden in a cargo ship in the Pool of London. So he made sure that the initial bomb test was set up to provide data on the spread of radioactive contamination following an explosion in shallow water.

How knockout blow is that?