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@ErikaMorris79 I am Australian but I love watching Jimmy bowl - talk about longevity in the game and for a quick too! What a great stat!

Jimmy Anderson has taken a wicket EVERY SINGLE YEAR since 2001 Absolutely incredible when you think that: In 2001 🏆India men had only won one cricket world cup 0️⃣ England mens cricket team hadn’t won a cricket world cup 🏏T20 cricket didnt exist 🇪🇺Euro as a currency didnt exist 💻Facebook didnt exist 📱Iphone didnt exist 📽️Youtube didnt exist 🪙Bitcoin didnt exist Incredibly consistency

@DaveWallsworth Hi Dave. I have lost both my parents and am an only child. I think of them daily and wonder if they think I am doing a reasonable job on earth (or not). Dad wasn’t big on praise 🙂

13 years since we lost my dad and I still think about him every day. Big hug to anyone who has lost a parent. Remember when they made you laugh or feel proud because that’s when they were at their happiest 😊 (He wasn’t a pilot if you were wondering. He had a proper job!🤣)

@Taraustralis Yep. no longer used (since late 2009) but preserved at CDSCC, Tidbinbilla as a historical landmark. Known as DSS46 at CDSCC (was DSS 44 at Honeysuckle). More at: honeysucklecreek.net/hsktoday/dss46…

And here’s the actual receiver that took the broadcast from the moon. It came in upside down, and the Aussies flipped the camera around and filmed a broadcast monitor so it was right side up. Seriously. 3/3

If you want to get ready for the upcoming Artemis slingshot around the moon, watch The Dish. It’s about Australia’s role during the live broadcast of the Apollo mission using both Parkes observatory (in the movie) and the Honeysuckle tracking station (in real life). 1/3

@Taraustralis My favourite movie but I am biased. Parkes was used for real with the first 8m50s of TV coming via Honeysuckle Creek and the remainder via Parkes: larger antenna = more collecting area = stronger signal. See: parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/ap… put together by my colleage John Sarkissian.

@TonyHWindsor @PatFromFTG @FriendsoftheABC Agree Tony. The programme concept is great but I don't listen any more - the summer version this year with Angela Catterns was excellent.

Macca must be retiring soon as his program revolves around his own drivelling agenda with prearranged guests to reinforce his own narrow ideas. Been lost in the bush for years with absolutely no idea of global events and their potential impact on Australia. My guess is he won’t be there in a year.

Turned on our ABC to have a listen to whatever Macca wad saying. First thing I heard him say was to call Paul Keating “expletive expletive deleted (smug chuckle)” Turned it off. Seriously. Does the ABC Charter just straight up not apply to this guy? @FriendsoftheABC

@WG_RumblePants @DenisCarnahan @DenisCarnahan is a genius. He does “Cricket the Musical” and “Rugby League the Musical” and is also the technical producer for much of @abcsport live radio coverage in Sydney!

How on earth did I miss this before the Ashes? This is total GENIUS by @DenisCarnahan I’m going to be singing this all evening now! 😂😂😂 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@TLSChampagne The Hollowmen!

There's two shows in that list we can get behind! (The Goodies and Doctor Who) #ABCstrike

@WG_RumblePants Fantastic player and one the most humble and down to earth people you could meet. Greeted me down a hallway (he didn't know me) with "G'day mate, how are you". I just hope his health improves.

This photograph is almost perfect.

@konstructivizm Gene's book "Failure is not an Option" is well worth a read - I have read it two or three times and even if you aren't interesting in science (which I am) you can learn a great deal about handling extreme incidents.

Gene Kranz didn’t wear a cape. He wore a crisp white vest—handmade by his wife Marta, a quiet symbol of resolve stitched for the white team he led—along with a headset, a flattop haircut, and a face that refused to crack under pressure.April 13, 1970. Two hundred thousand miles from home, an oxygen tank in Apollo 13’s service module detonated with brutal force. Power surged and failed. Alarms wailed. The spacecraft began hemorrhaging oxygen into the void, turning a routine lunar mission into a desperate fight for survival.In Mission Control, Houston, Kranz—Flight Director for the white shift—leaned into the chaos. Telemetry screens flickered with incomprehensible data. Engineers hunched over consoles, pencils frozen mid-twirl, faces pale. Kranz’s voice cut through the noise: calm, measured, precise. “Okay, people,” he said, “let’s work the problem.” No panic. No raised volume. Just focus.He orchestrated a symphony of improvisation: rerouting power, jury-rigging CO₂ scrubbers with duct tape, cardboard, and hose clamps; calculating trajectories on slide rules and battered calculators; keeping the crew—Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert—alive in a freezing, powerless capsule while the world held its breath.Amid the tension, small human moments anchored the room. A young controller fidgeted nervously; Kranz didn’t snap—he asked quietly about double-checking the lithium hydroxide canisters. A whispered joke—perhaps about cold coffee or the next round of donuts—drew a fleeting grin, a shared breath that reminded everyone they were still human, still fighting together.Those vests weren’t just fabric. They embodied the unspoken creed of his team: unflinching determination, collective ingenuity, the belief that no problem was unsolvable if you refused to quit. (The famous line “Failure is not an option”? It crystallized in the 1995 film, but it captured the spirit Kranz lived every shift.)After four grueling days, the crew splashed down safely in the Pacific on April 17. Cheers erupted. Kranz, still in that iconic white vest, lit a celebratory cigar amid applause and exhaustion. Headlines screamed “miracle.” History etched the triumph in bold letters.But Kranz always remembered the quieter truths: the cooling coffee cups, the nervous pencil-twirling, the tiny jokes that steadied shaking hands. Heroism isn’t always thunderous. Sometimes it’s the steady voice in the storm, the precise calculation, the human touch that keeps fear from winning.In the end, Apollo 13 wasn’t saved by superheroes. It was saved by ordinary people—with extraordinary grit—refusing to let failure be an option.

@MitchellGlenn I paid $2.69/L in Orange on my way to Parkes yesterday (in NSW) and I saw others at $2.79/L 🤪

@JaneCaro I think that poster is for the US release @TheMonologist. The AUS release used this one.

Lve this film

@MikeyRobins @Peter_Fitz Peter Wherret and I think there was Marque as well but my memory is probably incorrect.

@Peter_Fitz We’re old enough to remember when Torque was a TV show

Beyond my technical understanding. Something to do with "torque" whatever that is!

@TheMonologist My favourite film. I am biased as I work for CSIRO and go to the Parkes radio telescope often for work. There is a great visitor's centre as well. The one thing that was true about the Apollo 11 track was that the wind was high and above the usual operational limit.

@MConallin I agree Murray. I find the F1 TV director in the last few years doesn't have a great feel for the race. MotoGP is far better in my view. I know F1 is a remote prod. these days but I know for certain the FIFA WWC in 2023 was remote and that was fine (diff sport I know).

What on earth is the TV director doing in this race? Stop going back to George Russell!

@DanGinnane Great call last night. Loved the reference to the ODI dating yourself and moving onto the T20 era 🤣

Let’s be real the NRL was simply fulfilling its legal obligations but never fair dinkum about it. And the night was so much better for it

@MitchellGlenn Was that the series where you and @jimmaxcricket called a lot of the match on a mobile phone due to a lack of working ISDN? It was wonderful.

25 years ago today I witnessed the most amazing day of cricket I’ve seen Following on 274 runs behind, V V S Laxman & Rahul Dravid batted the entire fourth day at Kolkata They set up a remarkable 171-run win … ending AUS’s record run of 16 consecutive Test victories

@theanalyst That is well worth reminding many commentators who seem to think they have to talk and talk and talk all the time. As the great @jimmaxcricket told me. Pause and let the crowd carry the emotion of what happens (e.g. a wicket, boundary, century etc). Timing!

A timely post to all who work in tv sport…

@ScottBaileyAAP Nooooooo!

Calling it early. With the runs of possession and point-scoring sprees in 2026, this could well be the year a team concedes 50 and wins the premiership. We don’t need to put lines through teams any more. #NRL

@planet4589 DECnet and Coloured Book Software (CBS) addresses on VMS if memory serves me correct! Enjoy your retirement!

Thanks to my retirement from the Center for Astrophysics, my old email address jcm@cfa.harvard.edu no longer works. I had that email address for 38 years!! Before that I was JBVAD::JCM, CAVAD::JCM, and (1978) UK.AC.CAM.PHX::JCM4.

@ScottBaileyAAP I thought of you before I read this!

Little let, but put a line through Parramatta ladies and gentlemen. That’s their premiership hopes over. No team has ever conceded 50 and gone on to win the title. #NRLStormEels