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Probably the First World war. I wasn't born till the start of the second and I hope to never have a 3rd. Wars are MADNESS. Nev

I just found out Katherine has a "River Cam", pointing at the old rail bridge. The river is lapping the underside of both road and rail bridges at present. https://www.katherine.nt.gov.au/about-katherine/living-in-katherine/river-cam.aspx Some of the lower Katherine suburbs are getting wet feet, right about now. The main bridge is now closed to all traffic. It appears that they have a levee bank with removable gates. The "dry side" of the gates doesn't look too dry, to me!

My wife's hybrid is a Corolla Cross. Service cost is $250 once a year. Low fuel consumption, good ground clearance.

I didn't know that Nev, did the term start during the war or earlier?

From a war perspective, it would have been a dumb thing not to sink the frigate and let it sail home to blockade the Strait of Hormuz at the least, or attack US forces. It's arguably Iran's best ship, or one of the best. Sinking it is in line with one of the stated goals, which is to destroy Iran's navy so it can't threaten shipping in the gulf. They still have a lot of small torpedo boats.

. He forgot the toilet Paper. It will be in short supply as well as most things, if trucks can't get Fuel. If he had a Prang, He'd have Burn problems as well. Prang is an old aviation term. Nev

Yeah and you get Bugga all Power from a kero tractor with a lot of Oil dilution as well.. Nev

I wonder if he factored in the cost of the jerrycans. He may not be saving much.

I think USA and Iran consider it such. America is in a "Get in first approach". Putins "special Military Operation was 100%BS and should have fooled NO one. Nev

It's expensive all right. Probably cheapest from Bunnings where it varies from $24 to $27 per 4 litres. Buying it in a 20 litre container only saves a couple of dollars. It must have been cheap when we ran tractors on it.

Mercators is Not orthomorphic or conformal. One NZ flight regularly passes about 80nm north of Melbourne, at very high altitude. Some days you can see the contrails. When the Poles appear as big as the equator there's a lot of distortion. A string on a globe between ant 2 points will be a great circle. All lines of Longitude are great circles as is the equator. Nev

Good question, has Iran officially declared war? It's rarely ever done these days. Usually they just box on and call it whatever they like, armed conflict, special military operation, police action, or whatever.

Shining light in dark corners is a good idea but kero is a crazy price. Nev

The sub informed the Nearest country and that apparently covers the Maritime rules. I'm only the Messenger. Nev

It's probably a bit of an ask to expect a submarine to surface and render assistance. For a start they don't have the space and facilities that ships have. Another factor is that the basic brief of submarines is stealth. The navy rules possibly might forbid them from surfacing after an engagement like that. Here's a question - are submarines exempt from the rules regarding rendering assistance.

Professor Donald Rothwell, who is a professor of International Law at the ANU College of Law, told ABC News the US did have a right to target the vessel under rules of engagement.

The lantern in the last photo arrived from the eBay seller. It has a bit of light surface rust from age so I sprayed some inox on it to free things up a bit. When I took the burner cap off and pulled the burner out, I found out it was NOS and never used. It had the original factory wick lying in the bottom of the tank. She had two of them listed and I thought of buying both at that cheap price, but after receiving mine I checked back and the second one had been snapped up. A rare find in that condition. That particular lantern is one of the best types you can get if you like the large size lanterns.

Peter, this part of that report is very hard to believe. I can't imagine any navy sailing their frigates around the world unarmed., they would be a sitting duck. Who would risk a valuable asset like a frigate.

The IRGC base was 60 metres from the school.

"Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base”. That's what was next to, or close to the school. Why weren't the kids given the week off, given that missiles were whizzing around overhead?

It's a bit mind bending to view the track from Aukland to Dubai. It flies via southern Tassie. I guess the great circle route is a straight line, but Mercator's projection makes the track appear ridiculously curved.

I use FR24 free app to find out what is flying past. Jets are pretty rare this far south. Many of the jets do not show up on FR24, I suspect military activity. One that was lowish, maybe under 10k, was grey, coming from due south. Others too high to see clearly. You'd expect them to have transponders on at least when overflying a capital city.

Frump couldn't giva stuff who's killed , hence his love and total admiration of the bunker dweller. Frump would be pushin people out of windows to if he thought he'd get away with it.

Katherine is suffering from major flooding, with the Katherine River expected to exceed 19.2M depth tonight - with more rain coming. This flood event is expected to exceed the 2006 flood river height, at 19M. This photo was taken when the Katherine river was at 17.6M. At 19.2M the water is close to lapping the underside of the rail bridge. However, even at 19.2M, the river level is still well below the disastrous 1998 Katherine flood, where the Katherine River reached 20.4 metres and flooded the entire town, including the main street (the Stuart Hwy) with chest-deep floodwaters. Here's a photo of the river level gauge. This was the scene yesterday afternoon (6th Mar). This is the current Flood Watch Area for the NT. It's interesting that the area extends well into W.A. and encompasses a sizeable area S and W of Kununnura.