Michael Paine - Sydney Australia

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Discoveries!

Automotive Safety

• Vehicle Design and Research Pty Limited engineering consultancy
• Road Safety Web links & News
  
• Speed Assistance Systems (includes Intelligent Speed Assistance - ISA)
• Autonomous and Driverless Cars + Electric Vehicle Safety & News + Telematics + Micromobility
  
• Stay Safe Rangers website (by Denise Paine - primary students monitoring driver behaviour at home time)
  
• Youtube videos

Astronomy & Science

• Australian Spaceguard Survey - the search for asteroids and comets that might threaten the Earth.
• Tsunami from asteroid impacts - plus Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and risk to Sydney from tsunami + Tsunami Survival Guide for Australian coastal communities
  
• Index to my "Rocks in space" series of articles - now available for iPad as an iBook.
  
• Australian Planetary Science (formerly The Planetary Society Australian Volunteers)
• Transpermia/Panspermia + Extremophiles + Transfer to Mars
  
• Science Conjecture - life on Mars and other topical science issues such as are we shrinking instead of the universe expanding? :)
  
• Greenhouse gases and global warming - links and news (started in 1997) + Floating Solar.
  
• Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit from the book Demon Haunted World (extract agreed by Ann Druyan)
  
• Carl Sagan's warning about the reptile within us - the risk of war
  
• Links to articles about the COVID19 pandemic.
  

PCs & Internet

• PCs and the Year 2000+ old news but still interesting.
• Australian Open Access User Group  - DOS software users group with all sorts of PC tips and tricks.
  
• A dig at Windows
• Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - soundbytes & links
  
• Tips page for Apple Mac OS X. (hooked on Apple Mac since 2003)
• Homepod, Apple TV & Homekit (2015)
  
• A quick introduction to HTML (1997)
• Talk on Quantum Computers (1999)
• Talk on DNA computers (1998)
  

Hobbies & local issues

• GreenTL - environmental NGO in Timor Leste formed by Judy Charnaud
  
• Discovery Trail Boardwalk at Balgowlah Heights Public School (by Denise Paine)
  
• GEMFIND mapping shareware for Australian gemstone fossickers and Darwin's Natural Selection - simple, dynamic illustration of natural selection at work (competition for limited resouces) 
• Local issues:
  
• Red Hill Preservation Society (1990s)
  
• Warringah's Environmental Hotspots (~1992)
  
• Urban Villages, 
• SEPP5 retirement villages, 
• Warringah's new LEP. (~1995)
• Politics - Independents on the Northern Beaches:
  
• Your Northern Beaches Independent Team (Councillors) - local government elections on 14 Sept 2024
  
• Michael Regan MP (State Member for Wakehurst)
  
• Zali Steggall MP (Federal Member for Warringah)
  
• Sophie Scamps MP (Federal Member for MacKellar)
• Treasure Our Lifestyle - 1999 Warringah Council Elections with Phil Colman
• Australian Snow Statistics for skiers - put the odds of good snow in your favour
  
• Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary, Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia - magnificant scenery, geology and astronomy.
• Looking for one of the best Australian TV dramas - "Heartland" with Cate Blanchett and Ernie Dingo? It was re-marketed in North America as "Burned Bridge". Brilliant performances from a young Cate and Ernie. 2018 update: ABC has done it again with Mystery Road with some great "veteran" Australian actors, including Ernie.
• August 2018 SMH: Aboriginal archaeological discovery in Kakadu rewrites the history of Australia (and Mankind) - Aboriginal people have lived in Australia for a minimum of 65,000 years... + see the book What the Colonists Never Knew (National Museum Australia) - by Dennis Foley and Peter Read. It describes how the Koori culture survived relentless oppression from the First Fleet to the modern day.
  
• 2023:  Selected articles addressing misinformation about the Voice Referendum
  
• My 1974 Engineering Thesis on surfboards
  



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Last major update May 2021 - moved to vdrsyd.com domain. TPG web pages and email no longer work.


Started at TPG domain in 1996. This was discontinued from 1st October 2023.
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