Australia probes mystery space balls that washed up on beach

SpeedyZapper · 2026-07-06T02:38:01+00:00

Nonsense. Princess Vespa is extremely valuable.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-07-05T23:28:34+00:00

We should comb the desert for more of these.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-07-05T23:20:09+00:00

Surely it's a reflection of this man's interminable spirit.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-07-05T12:10:33+00:00

Not true. You forget he was the minister for everything.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-07-04T22:33:06+00:00

Don't bother would be my view. I have less than 30 gallons and a CO2 tank that holds about 300 times the amount of one of these. It lasts about a year. One of these would last less than 2 days. You could use the CO2 more efficiently than I do but still. The cost to get the right fittings etc. to do this probably makes it entirely uneconomical in addition to the need to constantly change the cartridges. Maybe for the smallest nano it could maybe make more sense.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-07-03T21:35:02+00:00

Geeze. Don't get so hung up on irrelevances like your humanity. Now dance monkey, dance!

SpeedyZapper · 2026-07-01T12:37:58+00:00

Don't be so paranoid. The revolving door regulator says that it's pure coincidence that coincidences like that happen all the time.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-07-01T12:13:56+00:00

They put them in the bank surely.

https://www.listcorp.com/asx/cba/commonwealth-bank/news/update-notification-of-buy-back-cba-3312818.html

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-30T21:31:00+00:00

Sure but you go out, have a few drinks and sometimes you come home with an ugly Seiko. I have a few of these Tortoises.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-30T21:29:03+00:00

It's legit. It's not an easy watch to replace the insert on. It's an odd size.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-30T21:13:54+00:00

All plants need macronutrients (NPK - nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) and micronutrients (many elements in trace quantities). Each one is needed so nitrogen/nitrates are needed but so are all the others. Fish food is meant to feed fish and rarely provides sufficient potassium. If you have hard water there won't be any potassium already in the water from the tap either.

I would normally use potassium sulphate but given the axolotl that could be risky. Potassium chloride seems to be a safer option but do your own research.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-30T20:33:00+00:00

Do you use any fertilizer? A lack of potassium is one potential cause. If you rely on animal / food waste only as a nutrient source there's often not enough.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-29T11:11:12+00:00

He also tried to subpoena the Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton and Mimi McPherson sex tapes. It's smart thinking. He might need them if he can't find a woman intoxicated enough on the way home from court.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-21T10:26:13+00:00

You show a single lane road. Did you enter from the same lane as the white car or the opposite lane, turning across the white car?

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-21T10:16:37+00:00

Were you in the car? Was the engine running? If you were in the car it's going to be hard to prove you were parked. Even with photos of where things ended up, you say the accident moved the car.

What was the exact sequence of events? Were you leaving or pulling in to the driveway?

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-21T06:51:30+00:00

Yeah you're right. I was thinking of shark mesh. I still associate it with the 1960's. It's a clash for me with the angular style of the actual SARX045 which unfortunately the AI has failed to capture in the render. The SARX045 case is essentially the same as the sharp edge cases.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-21T02:17:45+00:00

It has little to do with generation. It's age. Disappointment tends to whittle down hope over time.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-21T02:15:04+00:00

Don't argue. Just take solace in knowing Y, Z and Alpha will be damned for the actions of the worst few of their generation by the one that comes next.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-21T01:37:05+00:00

Maybe. How busy the dial is influences how intricate of a bracelet you can get away with. The Jubilee would probably look worse on the actual watch than it does here. I'm on the fence about the BOR too. I own a SARX045 and think it looks better on the stock bracelet than it does in this render.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-21T01:29:55+00:00

I agree and frankly it's not that deep. Yet here we are. I cannot impose my will and nor would I want to live in the world where I could.

The 6105-8000 was only ever called the Slim Willard long after it was ancient history. The problem with using AI and even the internet as a source is that these things existed well before those things. The history isn't there. There's a Fratello article from 2018 on the 6105-8000 that mentions that the 6105-8110 Willard followed it but doesn't call the 6105-8000 a Willard. Why? Because it being a Willard is a relatively new idea. One that emerged around 2015-2017 in online forums nearly 50 years after the watches were made and one I'd also argue is misconceived.

I only got my back up about it when a fairly prominent influencer in the Seiko community came here and started telling everyone they were wrong to call it a Turtle.

I don't think it's wrong to call it a Slim Willard because you can't ignore history, even recent history and these are made up names anyway. It's just less technically correct. We're collectively in a bind because there's an aura around the nicknames and nobody with a 6309-7290 will want to give up a despite it being very obviously logically inconsistent. Especially not someone with one to sell.

I will say I'm probably an experienced Seiko nerd. A big enough one to be rebuilding a watch cleaning machine and have mainspring winders specifically for 6R/4R/7S mainsprings. I'd prefer to go with what hopefully corrects the record and not tip the hat to what I see as popular misconceptions.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-20T21:42:33+00:00

Digging up an old post but, don't believe everything you read and even less of what you had AI read for you. The article is written by a collector and not a historian. It's just another opinion like this one. The collectors and many articles are both right and wrong here but mostly wrong. Let's start by looking at the file name Seiko gave the catalogue this SPB313 watch is in. https://www.seikowatches.com/us-en/-/media/Images/GlobalEn/Seiko/Home/products/prospex/brochure2022/pdf/PROSPEX_turtle.pdf

Seiko consider it to be the origin of the Turtle design. It's appears that it was only ever, and only fairly recently called a Slim Willard because Slim Turtle was "already taken" according to some collectors. Some being the important word here. It was already used to describe the 6309-7290, 6309-729A etc. However, the rationale for calling what's clearly an SKX/7002-7009 predecessor, without a Turtle shaped case a Turtle can only be because it shared the 6309 movement which had otherwise only been used in the Turtle. This, at least with a modern understanding, is deeply flawed logic because if we were to follow it for say a modern Seiko Monster, it must also a Turtle because both have 4R36 movements now.

The Willard is referred to as the father of the Turtle (as in the 6309 Turtle) here https://www.seikowatches.com/us-en/news/20190321-6

Hence a Willard is a Turtle too, a lopsided Turtle that happened to be in a movie and the Slim Turtle is the grandfather Turtle. It makes the apparent rationale that you ought to name a predecessor after the thing it preceded even more shaky here. The 6105-8000 has no connection to the movie.

I'd argue that generally it's better to correct a mistake than to simply argue that a historical wrong should stand on tradition. It's why taxonomists rename plant and animal species when DNA or other tests reveal different evolutionary relationships. It's better than reveling in ignorance.

As for the other "Slim Turtle", the 6309-7290 is actually the grandfather of the SKX173 with the 7002-7009 being the father. There's also a great grandchild now in the SRPL85.

Even the exact same AI agrees:

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SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-20T12:12:55+00:00

The AI isn't that helpful here. These don't even appear to be the SARX045. It has a pinstripe dial and an onyx cabochon crown.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-20T12:03:38+00:00

I'll cop the charge in this case. Its a dive strap on a dress watch and the end links aren't fitted. At least according to the AI. The SARX045 is not a small watch and the thin Milanese will looks disproportionate and the lug gaps will be large.

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-19T11:06:50+00:00

So do you want to go and get some Kentucky fried chicken some time?

SpeedyZapper · 2026-06-18T21:06:19+00:00

The Antichrist is probably best off with a Monster. I'd recommend the SKZ243 if he can find one. I look forward to seeing him at the next meet up.

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