I recommend posting a 3 hour shaky video about it on youtube discussing which galaxy it came from and what type of aliens might be inside it.

i'd apply that logic in reverse, if something is in the air near an airport you can assume it's got official approval unless there's also people freaking out about it

Ah that looks like it. I spotted it about 12:45 I think. I just assumed they wouldn't launch balloons at the airport or wouldn't like them flying over, what with all the planes that might suck it into their engine.

I was reading about this problem just recently. I'm surprised theres so little funding for wildlife rescue places,they do such obviously good work.

Wow! Good eyes!

Maybe a kids science experiment that drifted away?

Could be a sounding balloon to measure the upper atmosphere, meteorological folk often release them.

https://www.bom.gov.au/resources/learn-and-explore/radar-and-equipment-knowledge-centre/weather-balloons

Poking around on the BoM website shows the met station at Perth airport released one around midday today.

https://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/aviation/IDS65024/IDS65024.94610.png

I don't think it's a skydiver, it doesn't look canopy shaped, it looks balloon shaped. Also it didn't fall, it just drifted. Besides, skydivers famously try to avoid international airports

It's hard to say how big it is, or how high. Weather balloons can be huge, and flying at 12km+ altitude it can look like a much smaller balloon flying much lower.

Could be a skydiver, no? Hard to tell how big it is.

It seems like over-reach to me.

I know someone that's received one of these bans; they can't even catch the bus from the busport that day without facing jail time.

It's cooked. These people are not terrorists. They are not criminals. They're ordinary, good-natured, intelligent people. They shouldn't be facing jail time for waving anti-war banners OUTSIDE a war conference.

"This is all about keeping Western Australians safe. This is an important event for Western Australia strategically, commercially, for a whole other range of reasons." Sure it is.

They're doing business from weapons for killing people, including civilians. Basically, getting ready for more wars. The mindset is depraved.

And how 'polite' of them to send people a generic letter not explaining why they are banned, while taking away their democratic right to protest.

at least six people have received letters from police advising them that they have been banned from protesting inside the security zone. Authorities have refused to reveal why they have been targeted.

Surely one of these people know why they might be on a list

Hmm.

Yeah, that link's staying blue.

Wow, that noise of it raining down..

As an Oregonian, we have a solution. It involves dynamite. It won't work well but will be spectacular...

"It’s sad, they’re such a beautiful animal,” a local, David Jones, said. Several dead whales had washed up on the same stretch of coast in the previous decade, he said.

I wonder what it is about that stretch of coast that they come in there.

Edit: if anything, could just be coincidence.

If you're serious about this, just use Comaps - the entire WA region is 200mb and its where this project was scraped from anyways.

Just don't want anyone dying out there cause some slop decided to remove all its data just after you leave cell coverage.

Keep the WA portion for both recent news and cultural posting, maybe even communications. The Perth part should be a community for "lispers". /s

I feel your pain (not really, but you know what I mean. Life Support is mostly just me posting).

Keep going. It's important that WA have its own community here, no matter how small.

As someone who has never been to WA, but is a member of this community, I'd like to know more about issues that are really salient for the West.

Okay, so at X>300MB* this could hypothetically come as an update to the ServiceWA app, and then every phone that has that app has a functioning offline map of the whole of WA?

So someone driving in the outback has that back up there, ready to direct them the quickest way to where they want to go?

Could even have a push notification as the app detects signal loss to remind the user of the option to use the map.

Thats seriously cool, but also could save someones life if rolled out like above.

*I say x>300MB because I expect there'd be some bells and whistles to add.

Sounds pretty good. You’re doing good work. I’m everywhere and nowhere, so wouldn’t be of much use, but thanks for the invitation and kind words.

That. Was. Brutal.

Hugs out to Freo supporters.

ha ha, thanks MisterFrog. But now I can never meet you, because my horrible eye for fashion will give the lie to the trend setter business.

Nah I love it. I travel Australia and am regularly there, so use it to keep in touch with the real people. Chin up 😁