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19-08-2012, 09:37 PM
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Eureka prize Sol?
In a little over a week from now, I get to find out whether this image
will get bronze, silver or gold at the Australian Museum Eureka prizes !!!
The competition is: Humpback's (well...literally...humping...as they do) and another fish...
(OK... whales aren't fish)
Whatever the result on the night, is does beg the question: if fish travel in schools, would not the correct term be, a University of Whales?
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19-08-2012, 09:56 PM
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Look up, look good!
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Good luck - I thought whales were the cows of the sea! Bovine University perhaps? (Simpsons).
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19-08-2012, 10:41 PM
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He used to cut the grass.
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Good luck Peter. Lovely image.
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19-08-2012, 10:43 PM
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Beautiful image Peter-good luck!
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20-08-2012, 04:33 AM
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Wonderful shot Peter, regardless of the outcome.
Good luck.
Gary
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20-08-2012, 09:01 AM
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Thanks guys. Looking forward to the event. 
Apparently ABC TV's Catalyst team will be covering the evening & going to air the following Thursday.
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20-08-2012, 09:22 AM
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Ah well done. Time will tell.
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20-08-2012, 09:24 AM
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Nice work Peter, good luck!
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21-08-2012, 12:35 PM
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Yes, good luck Peter. Having experienced both, I can deffinitely say the Eureka Prize night makes the David Malin Awards night seem like an office morning tea.... and with much better prizes! Your stiffest competiton looks to be from the humping whales, if that is truly the first time it has ever been recorded though  ....then it probably deserves to win 
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21-08-2012, 05:22 PM
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Yes, good luck Peter. Having experienced both, I can deffinitely say the Eureka Prize night makes the David Malin Awards night seem like an office morning tea.... and with much better prizes! Your stiffest competiton looks to be from the humping whales, if that is truly the first time it has ever been recorded though ....then it probably deserves to win
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Thanks. Yep, definitely a major event....got fitted for a Tux last week. Not quite sure what "science" the whale image imparts...other than whales doing what most mammals do...albeit underwater. You'd be worried if they checked into a Hilton. ... Regardless of the result, I'm rather looking forward to the night.
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Nice work Peter, good luck!
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Thanks Mike.
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Ah well done. Time will tell.
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Guess I'm in with a chance...the link above is 50% res. Full res is pretty snappy though.
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21-08-2012, 08:25 PM
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Well done, Peter. I saw it in the list of final 10 in the newspaper. Good luck in the finals!
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21-08-2012, 08:45 PM
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Well done, Peter. I saw it in the list of final 10 in the newspaper. Good luck in the finals!
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Thanks Alex, but methinks Starmus tops the list.
Lucky bugger...but well deserved
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21-08-2012, 11:08 PM
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Good luck Peter
Cheers
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22-08-2012, 04:58 PM
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Good luck Peter
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Thanks Steve.
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29-08-2012, 12:00 PM
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Well done Peter, Third Place in a category of these prestigious awards is nothing to sneeze at ....have to admit, two whales humping is pretty exciting
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29-08-2012, 12:55 PM
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Well done Peter, Third Place in a category of these prestigious awards is nothing to sneeze at ....have to admit, two whales humping is pretty exciting
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Thanks Mike, and yes, your prognosis was correct. The fish photos did very well.
I was really chuffed just to be there and there is certainly nothing wrong with a Bronze (and not insignificant prize cheque) given the stratospheric level of the awards.
It was a simply an amazing evening, meeting and chatting with the finest Science minds in the country was inspiring and quite humbling.
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29-08-2012, 01:08 PM
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Congratulations Peter, it is always great to see the work of Australian amateurs recognized by the broader scientific community and the Eureka Awards for Science are certainly right up there.
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29-08-2012, 01:19 PM
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Congratulations, Peter.
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29-08-2012, 01:24 PM
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meeting and chatting with the finest Science minds in the country was inspiring and quite humbling.
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Wonder what the consensus would have been on human induced Climate Change, had you surveyed them all...I think I know
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29-08-2012, 01:39 PM
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Wonder what the consensus would have been on human induced Climate Change, had you surveyed them all...I think I know |
Actually, my positon on climate change is, and always has been, humanity is buggering up the planet's atmosphere.
But as for the carbon (dioxide) tax  ...well... don't get me started....
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