Worried and Angry: Sydney, Australia Edition

Here's the why of it:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-15/hostages-sydney-cafe-martin-place-police-operation/5967232

These people just had to go and do something not only mean, cruel and Wrong on its face, they had to play into the local Wrong-Headed Head-of-Government's hands by doing it, didn't they?

I don't want anyone dead of this. Not police, not hostages and certainly not hostage-takers. Because I want them to be treated according to the spirit and letter of the law...and learn from this that their First Mistake was to think that a crime of this sort was a good idea in the first place.

Waiting to be damned as naïve by PM Abbott's fellow believers for saying that...

Orion Cockpit Design

On a more positive note...stumbled across this on YouTube tonight...

Getting the sense that this is what Drexler, Okuda and company were aiming for in their work on the 2150's travel pod cockpit designs for Enterprise.

Trouble is, I worry that such design choices could backfire on the crews of Orion-type mission vehicles. One sufficiently nasty solar flare...? But surely, the designers of this real-'verse cockpit have already anticipated such things?