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Originally Posted by JDNSW

But the motion is relative anyway, so it makes little difference which one you think is moving.

John

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(I'm pretty sure that my relatives have had a motion, but that's another subject)
Hi John

Yes as a geologist you are very aware of tectonic movements, however as Australia was connected to Antarctica through Tasmania to form part of the supercontinent Gondwana and now Tasmania is no longer attached to Australia. It would be a reasonable hypothesis that Australia is moving Northward at a greater velocity than Tasmania, more than that Australia has bumped into New Guinea causing the Owen Stanley Ranges would be secondary evidence of Australia's Northward movement and therefore away from Tasmania! :D

Diana ;)

Can we change the subject Dianna? All this conversation is doing is giving the Spirit of Tasmania operators an excuse to jack up their prices.

mainland cheese is nice but I really like great ocean rd cheese

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

Can we change the subject Dianna? All this conversation is doing is giving the Spirit of Tasmania operators an excuse to jack up their prices.

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Actually not true, if Tassie and the North Island were further apart it would save them doing circles out in Bass Strait.

The timetable is based upon the times the Stevedores are available to work, the trip could take less time if the ferries could dock earlier in the morning, but that would require the workers to get up at O'Dark hundred.

Can't they get a boat with self parking features like so many new cars, or do the stevedores have to feed the meter?

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

(I'm pretty sure that my relatives have had a motion, but that's another subject)
Hi John

Yes as a geologist you are very aware of tectonic movements, however as Australia was connected to Antarctica through Tasmania to form part of the supercontinent Gondwana and now Tasmania is no longer attached to Australia. It would be a reasonable hypothesis that Australia is moving Northward at a greater velocity than Tasmania, more than that Australia has bumped into New Guinea causing the Owen Stanley Ranges would be secondary evidence of Australia's Northward movement and therefore away from Tasmania! :D

Diana ;)

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Actually Australia and Tasmania are part of the same tectonic plate (as is New Guinea), and there is no significant relative movement between the mainland and Tasmania. The Owen Stanley Range is within the Australia plate but is the result of the northward movement of the Australia plate bringing it into collision with the Pacific plate.

John

hmmmm seems to be staying on topic :wallbash::soapbox: how do we sink that :p:D:p

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Originally Posted by Outback 1

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hmmmm seems to be staying on topic how do we sink that

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I hope this will help Ken,

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

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Anyway, I think you're overdue Digger. ;)

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I tried to write poetry, a little bit of prose
I sat and strained and tried
My sweat was up, my temperature rose
In the end "I cant do it Ian", I cried.

You see, I sat up constipated at my desk,
I concentrated so hard 'til I went blue
Everything I did came out grotesque
Including that I strained so hard that I pooed!

So now I sit alone, in a cloud of stinking vapour
With nothing at all written of any class
I fear the words that I did put upon the paper
Will smudge when I wipe my ass!

The embarrasment of failure was undenied
I had tried around the clock
again I started and again failed and cried
(but at least it cleared my crappy "writers block" !!)

Sorry its all I could do!

Yep. I just flushed a writers block.

I've been worried about flushed, but then remembered that it is beetroot season! Phew.