Not yet, though we were just discussing our need to visit it soon a couple of days ago (my spook obsession is undergoing one of those periodic surges that obsessions do). I'm hoping it will be in the next week.
I'm about to launch into a novel that uses that location. As soon as I finish the current novel, then have a mini-breakdown.
The next novel also features diprotodons and a nuclear-powered time portal, so I don't think Real World accuracy is too much of a worry, actually, but an lj post about your visit would be ueful. I'll even thank you in the acknowledgments.
Excellent! Please assess the perimeter fencing vis-a-vis resistance to diprotodon attack. I'm planning on sending the protagonists into the facility on the shoulders of megafauna.
That should break the brain of my American editor.
Giant carnivorous ducklike birds! Horned turtles the size of a volkswagon! Biiiiigg snakes! Dropbears!
Well, maybe not that last one, though thylacoleo was as big as a mountain lion and was a pounce predator that probably dropped on its prey out of trees...
I'm not sure diprotodons ever got as big as a tank. A Kombi, yes.
I think, in a novel where there's a nuclear-powered time portal, I can get away with an oversize diprotodon. Especially since, when I pitched the novel, my editor said she loved dinosaurs.
Given how deranged the pitch was to begin with, and how enthusiastically the editor has accepted it (elves! secret societies! shamans! muttaburrasauri), I think I can put anything I want in this novel, and it will all be calmly accepted.
Book three in the series, where the characters attempt to steal the sapphire clock from the gravity research lab at UWA in order to resurrect the space flight program after the apocalypse, is well underway.
I don't know if it's a good thing to just let me write Stuff. There's a lot of background noise in my head.
I post to Moon Hoax threads in a number of fora, as I know shitloads about the subject, and the hoax claims shit me to tears. It's often worth it, as every once in a while I'll get someone thanking me for clearing up some misconceptions spoonfed to them by hypocrites who know they are peddling lies in order to make a profit. I call it my missionary work to the benighted.
Far more often than the occasional enlightenments, of course, are the arrested development losers. I try to stick to the facts and not rise to trollbait, but some of them are too much fun to ignore. My all time favourite was a guy who accused me, as I so often am, of being a "paid shill" of NASA. This guy went further, however, and claimed that his hacker-fu allowed him to track my IP address, and that he knew, beyond all doubt, that I was part of a crack damage control squad operating out of Pine Gap. I kid you not. When I asked him why the NSA(!) would go to the expense of stationing its shills out in the middle of nowhere rather than pay me to do it from my suburban home in my underwear he just got all pouty and claimed that I was a liar whose evasions proved he was right.
Unmasked. Damn.
I'll wave to you over the fence once you get here, Dave.
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Date: 2008-04-10 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-10 04:54 am (UTC)I'm about to launch into a novel that uses that location. As soon as I finish the current novel, then have a mini-breakdown.
The next novel also features diprotodons and a nuclear-powered time portal, so I don't think Real World accuracy is too much of a worry, actually, but an lj post about your visit would be ueful. I'll even thank you in the acknowledgments.
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Date: 2008-04-10 05:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-10 05:16 am (UTC)That should break the brain of my American editor.
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Date: 2008-04-10 05:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-10 06:07 am (UTC)How can it possibly go wrong?
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Date: 2008-04-10 06:49 am (UTC)Well, maybe not that last one, though thylacoleo was as big as a mountain lion and was a pounce predator that probably dropped on its prey out of trees...
I'm not sure diprotodons ever got as big as a tank. A Kombi, yes.
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Date: 2008-04-10 06:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-10 07:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-10 08:00 am (UTC)Book three in the series, where the characters attempt to steal the sapphire clock from the gravity research lab at UWA in order to resurrect the space flight program after the apocalypse, is well underway.
I don't know if it's a good thing to just let me write Stuff. There's a lot of background noise in my head.
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Date: 2008-04-10 05:01 am (UTC)Far more often than the occasional enlightenments, of course, are the arrested development losers. I try to stick to the facts and not rise to trollbait, but some of them are too much fun to ignore. My all time favourite was a guy who accused me, as I so often am, of being a "paid shill" of NASA. This guy went further, however, and claimed that his hacker-fu allowed him to track my IP address, and that he knew, beyond all doubt, that I was part of a crack damage control squad operating out of Pine Gap. I kid you not. When I asked him why the NSA(!) would go to the expense of stationing its shills out in the middle of nowhere rather than pay me to do it from my suburban home in my underwear he just got all pouty and claimed that I was a liar whose evasions proved he was right.
Unmasked. Damn.
I'll wave to you over the fence once you get here, Dave.
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Date: 2008-04-10 05:07 am (UTC)(unless you get back using certain technologies you can't talk about *wink*)
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Date: 2008-04-10 04:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-10 05:10 am (UTC)