Category Archives: in the news

Back to (6000 miles from) civilisation…

By 6000 | 6000 | March 22, 2011

After a leisurely journey back from Agulhas (stopping briefly in Bredasdorp for food, drink and Kinder eggs for the kids) we find ourselves back in Cape Town’s leafy Southern Suburbs. Truly, I haven’t a clue what’s been happening while we were away. Something about Libya and someone getting shot in Cape Town was all I [...]

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No boom boom

By 6000 | 6000 | March 14, 2011

After the recent events in Japan – most notably the er… “issues” at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility following the earthquake – the public in Cape Town and surrounds has been warned not to panic if they see steam apparently leaking from the Koeberg Power Station just up the road from the city. The public are [...]

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Next year?

By 6000 | 6000 | March 13, 2011

As hundreds of cyclists veered and wobbled all over the Main Road and ignored the traffic lights through St James and Kalk Bay this morning, as they do most Sunday mornings, I came up with a brilliant new Sunday morning drinking game. And what’s not to love about Sunday morning drinking games? Today was, of [...]

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Not much?

By 6000 | 6000 | March 12, 2011

Thankfully, aside from in Japan, there seems to have been very little damage from yesterday’s tsunami. However, the waves did make it across the Pacific and even though they were small – tiny even – by the time they arrived in New Zealand, the systems set out to detect them still detected them, as can [...]

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Physics of a tsunami

By 6000 | 6000 | March 11, 2011

With my parents still in New Zealand and on the coast in Greymouth (in the direct line for any tsunami emanating from the Honshu earthquake) I was reading around the speed of Tsunamis with some personal interest. However, I didn’t have to, since the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center [sic] has all the predicted “hit” times [...]

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