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Not just uninformed - deliberately misinformed.

There was a massive, heavily funded FUD campaign by the “no” proponents. Sadly, it was very effective.

The mining lobby seems to be behind it too - they stand to lose a lot if Aboriginal rights are given more credence.

That actually makes it much worse. Kinetic energy is a square law so to reach orbit at 5 times the velocity requires 5x5=25 times the energy they’re currently using. And air resistance is also a square law so making it go 5 times faster also results in 25 times the air resistance and 25 times the heating due to it.

Most likely if they did get it going fast enough to make it to orbit, it’d burn up in the lower atmosphere before it even got very far.

The mining lobby funded some of the yes campaign and then proceeded to put out those vague and questionable messages. They really played both sides very effectively.

Can we talk about Rock Paper Shotgun’s horrible dark pattern with cookies? It took me a couple of minutes to work out how to reject all cookies, and even then I’m not sure I did it correctly.

I thought there were laws about the number of clicks required to reject cookies?

Simple answer: Israeli “settlers” will move in. Gaza will become part of Israel. Millions of Palestinians will be displaced and most will die in refugee camps.

The weight of the media was against them from day 1. It doesn’t really matter what your messaging is if it doesn’t get reported. What did get reported was whatever Murdoch’s news media wanted to be reported, and if they reported the “yes” side only in terms of weak points then that’s what people think the “yes” side had to say.

I guess it depends which media you use. My mother watches channel 7 mostly and she seemed puzzled as to why anyone would vote yes. “Apparently even the Aboriginals don’t want it.” And this was a few weeks ago. I think the mainstream media’s been pushing “no” pretty hard throughout.

Tell me the base clock, not the “up to… when powered by a fusion reactor” value.