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Originally Posted by fringe_dweller
Lance, now is not a good time maybe wait 50-100 years? as the recources boom is going even more mental. they are digging up oz at an alarming rate now, where ever you put it, and probably the more remote and dark the worse, you could wake up one morning with a dirty great big mine (with small town/trucks/traffic/dust) next to ya in your pristine dark sky
i notice arkaroola is to get a huge uranium mine, wonder how they feel about that at the astro site there - and another one closer to broken hill
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Thank you for the report! Yes i have been doing a lot of "digging" myself
regarding where & where not build an observatory in OZ. Being a "Stop-
the war/tree huggin-Counter Culture type", i always look to see if
there are any "messes" around. When researching Arkaroola i "dug" this up:
"Working Uranium Mines"
"520 kilometers north of Adelaide, on the
plains north-west of Lake Frome and 25
kilometers north east of the Arkaroola
Resort in the northern Flanders Ranges..."
i found this info at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_uranium_mines
yea what's this world turning into? i can only surmise i it's a "tragic comedy"
and just laugh it off........
Lance