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the Sarco suicide machine...

In a world filled with chaos, a new "suicide machine" allows people to exit life in an orderly, peaceful manner. The Sarco is a technological marvel, resembling some kind of futuristic sleeping chamber, that aids in voluntary assisted dying. Australian doctor Philip Nitschke, whom Newsweek identifies as the "Elon Musk of assisted suicide," unveiled the new apparatus earlier this week, just days after lawmakers in the state of Victoria voted to legalize euthanasia. The device simplifies what Nitschke dubs "rational suicides," ensuring that the process is painless and easy—an optimal way to go.

The Sarco was developed by Nitschke's organization, Exit International, which bills itself as an "aid-in-dying" organisation. The machine includes a base topped by a translucent chamber perfectly proportioned to comfortably fit a human which. After settling in the pod, the user will push a button and the chamber will start to "fill up with liquid nitrogen to bring the oxygen level down to about 5 percent." Around the minute mark, the user will become unconscious, experiencing almost no pain, according to the Newsweek report. (The doctor describes the changes as akin to "an airplane cabin depressurizing.") After death comes, which is fairly swift, the chamber can be used as a coffin. The base, just fyi, is reusable.

In a press release, Exit International notes the Sarco "was designed so that it can be 3D printed and assembled in any location" and that blueprints "will be free, made open-source, and placed on the Internet." While accessibility is a major selling point, there is one hurdle would-be users will need to clear: a "mental questionnaire" that's available online. Once a client has established mental health, they're given a 4-digit code that opens the capsule door, the first in a series of steps to "a peaceful death...in just a few minutes."

According to Newsweek, a few suicide clinics in Switzerland have expressed interest in licensing the Sarco for use. There are also likely to be takers in other spots around the world. In addition to the new Victoria law, assisted suicide is now legal in Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, where it's become an increasingly popular choice. In the U.S., only teminally ill patients can opt for assisted suicide, and in many states, at least two doctors must verify the legitimacy of the request. State-specific legislative nuance governs "death with dignity" laws in California, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, D.C. and Washington. All that said, support for the right to choose when and how one dies is on the rise. In 2016, 69 percent of Americans said "doctors should be allowed to end a patient's life by painless means." That number increased to 73 percent this year.

Philip Nitschke, who advocates for euthanasia to be a legal option for anyone over 70, continues to push for assisted suicide as a civil right. He says that the grey wave washing over Baby Boomers has helped create a sea change in thinking.

"These are people who are used to getting their own way, running their own lives," Nitschke told the Big Smoke earlier this year. "A lot of the women have gone through political battles around abortion rights, feminism, the Pill. They don't want to be told how to live or how to die. The idea that you can pat these people on the head and say 'there, there, let the doctors decide' is frankly ridiculous...People's lives are people's lives. Death is a part of that, and so it should be up to them to make the decisions."

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shedding time, mature goanna...

A NSW man was killing time in his shed earlier this week when he came across a monster lizard in his backyard.

Eric Holland was quick enough to snap a photo of the estimated 1.5-metre lace monitor on the side of his Thurgoona home.

"I was just doing a repair job in my shed when I opened the door and I saw this huge thing run across the ground and out of sight," Mr Holland said.

A mature Lace Goanna was spotted on a residential property in Thurgoona in New South Wales.

"I went inside after I saw it in the backyard and heard a banging noise coming from the side of the house.

"When I went outside I saw him on the side of the house with his tail hitting the drain pipe."

Mr Holland, who has lived in the area for 18 years, said he had never seen anything quite like it.

Eric Holland first spotted the giant goanna outside the steps of his shed.

"It was a big surprise really.

"I sometimes get blue tongues and lizards in the backyard but never anything quite like this."

The goanna quickly shuffled off Mr Holland's property and he has not seen it since.

The NSW Office of Environment and Heritage said it would not be unusual for a lace monitor to be found in the area around Albury.

Lace monitors, also known as lace goannas, can grow to around two metres in length and weigh up to 20 kilograms.

A Facebook post by the Border Mail on Mr Holland's discovery has had more than 1000 likes, comments and shares since it was posted on Thursday morning.

We've all got lizards in the garden but this is something else. A Thurgoona resident was quick enough to grab a snap of a scaly visitor in his backyard earlier this week.
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chato...

Australian man Spends 12 Years Turning Potatoes into Dairy-Free Cheese Called 'Chato'

Andrew Dyhin, an Australian inventor and founder of the PotatoMagic company, claims that he has spent the last 12 years researching ways of transforming common potatoes into a cheese-like product that is completely dairy-free.

"The product is called chato – cheese potato. It looks like cheese and melts like cheese, but it is nothing but potato," Dyhin says. While he won't reveal the exact production process, he says that the potatoes are peeled, liquefied and processed with no added ingredients into a basic product that can be melted, sliced, turned into cubes or mixed with water and other ingredients to make dips, just like cheese. The PotatoMagic founder said that he is confident that chato can become a sustainable plant based alternative to cheese, milk, custard and even ice-cream.

"The ice cream that comes out of the churn using the chato is to die for. I make a fantastic coconut cream custard myself," Dyhin told the Sydney Morning Herald. "You can add whatever you want to it to make different flavors. You can bake with is to thicken your cakes and keep them moist. It tastes like potato or not at all, just depends what you do with it."

Confident that chato could change the food industry as we know it, Andre Dyhin is currently trying to attract investors so he can start commercializing the product. With the necessary funds, he hopes to get a pilot plant up and running within three months.

At the same time, the Melbourne inventor is working hard to challenge people's conception of a"liquid potato". He says that's easier said than done, because many associate his products with high levels of carbohydrates, or, even worse, with the rotting process potatoes go through. "I can really only get people to trust the product when they can actually taste it, feel it and look at it," he told ABC News.

"We need to find alternatives to animals and intensive agricultural practices. With chato we can take any potato, especially the ones that will just be thrown away, and make something that's delicious and versatile. We can make the most of what we have," Dyhin said.

"Food security is a very important issue and we need to look at products that have more yield per hectare, like potatoes. And also how we use that yield. Something like 25 per cent of all potato that is grown doesn't make it to the plate, mostly because it's not pretty enough for the shelves," he adds.

This so-called "man-made superfood" sounds great, but Dyhin has apparently been unable to convince investors that his chato is worth the risk. He first appealed to parties interested in financially supporting his invention in a 2014 YouTube video, but has apparently been stuck at this critical point for the last two years. Hopefully, the recent media exposure will help him reach his goal. I'd love to be able to try chato instead of cheese someday.

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marree man...

The Mysterious Marree Man of South Australia

In June 1998 a local pilot flying over the remote South Australian desert discovered an enormous drawing of an Aboriginal man hunting with a throwing stick made on the desert floor, about 60 km west of the town of Marree. The figure is 4.2 km tall with a perimeter of 28 km, making it one of the single largest geoglyph in the world. The figure is so huge it can only be seen in its entirely from above 3,000 feet.

Unlike many geoglyphs found around the world which were created by ancient civilizations, Marree Man is recent, carved into the landscape not more than 18 years ago. The figure was created by scraping off vegetation and soil, possibly by a GPS-assisted bulldozer, which experts estimate must have taken between four and eight weeks to complete. It was created in such secrecy that there is not one witness who could attest to its creation. Thanks to its remoteness, nobody had heard or seen anything, nor anyone has assumed responsibility for it. To this date, it remains one of the world's great unsolved modern mysteries.

When it was discovered, the outline of the figure was 20-30 cm deep and up to 35 meters wide. Assuming the bulldozer was 2.5 meter wide, this would require up to 14 passes. A quick calculation reveals that the bulldozer would have covered 400 kilometers and used up more than 300 liters of fuel. It was a herculean effort.

The figure is so beautifully drawn and such well-proportioned that the artist must have used a computer to superimpose the figure over an aerial or satellite photograph of the site, and adjusted to fit the geography. He (or she) must have then mapped out the latitude and longitude coordinates, and then using expert surveying skills plotted the outline over the terrain with the aid of a hand-held GPS device. Stakes could have been placed every hundred meters or so.

The creators, however, made the mistake of not digging the outline deep enough, for there is a layer of white chalk material slightly below the red soil. If the outline was dug to this depth and the white chalk layer exposed, it would have made the figure more permanent. Because this wasn't done the image is gradually eroding away through natural processes. By December 2015, the figure had become undetectable when viewed on Google Earth.

An image from NASA showing Marree Man from space. Inset is an outline of the man.

During the initial investigation of the site, several items were found in a shallow pit near the figure containing a satellite photo of the figure, a jar containing a small flag of the United States, and a note which referred to the Branch Davidian cult who were infamous for being attacked in the Waco raid in 1993. The police also found one track entering and one track exiting the site.

Following the discovery, several anonymous press releases were sent to the media suggesting that the Marree Man was created by people from the United States. Certain styles on the press release such as the use of "feet" and "inches" instead of metric units, and phrases such as "your State of SA", "Queensland Barrier Reef" and "local Indigenous Territories", that are not used by Australians indicate foreign authorship. Some believe that the "style" was a deliberate ploy to mislead.

Another fax purporting to be from the artist himself addressed the figure as "Stuart's Giant", so sometimes the Marree Man is also called by that name.

The plot thickened when in January 1999, another anonymous fax tipped officials of the presence of a plaque buried 5 meters south of the nose of the figure. Sure enough, a plaque was found, bearing the American flag, an imprint of the Olympic rings, and a quote from the H.H. Finlayson book, "The Red Centre", taken from a section of his book describing the Aborigines hunting of wallabies with throwing sticks. The quote reads:

In honour of the land they once knew. His attainments in these pursuits are extraordinary; a constant source of wonderment and admiration.

Theories are abound of the Marree Man's origins. Some say it was a parting gift from American servicemen based at the Australian Space Research Institute at Woomera. Others believe it to be the work of Australian Defence Force. Their vehicles, including a bulldozer, were allegedly seen in the area but the ADF denies it. Another potential suspect is Bardius Goldberg, a Northern Territory artist who was known to be interested in creating a work visible from space. When questioned about it, Goldberg refused to either confirm or deny that he had created the image. A close friend said Goldberg disclosed that he was given $10,000 to create the giant man. But before further investigation could be made, Goldberg passed away.

One South Australia's daily newspaper called for the figure to be made permanent by excavating the outline down to the white chalk layer. But some members of the Dieri tribe, whose lands lie east of Marree complained of harm and exploitation of the Dreamtime, calling for the image to be erased and for the artist to be prosecuted. When the tribe took legal action to stop charter flights and vehicles visiting the site, the local government closed the site. The Environment minister called it "environmental vandalism", and the South Australian chief of Aboriginal affairs said it was nothing more than "graffiti". While ground access to the site is prohibited, it's still possible to take the aerial route.

Left: Aerial view of the fading mystery drawing Marree Man in 2002. Right: The same figure in 2001.

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