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Australian aerospace location
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woomera
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n. (context Australia English) An Australian spearthrower consisting of a stick with a hooked end.
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A woomera is a wooden Australian Aboriginal spear -throwing device. Similar to an atlatl , it is an extension of the human arm that enables a spear to travel at a greater speed and force than possible with the unaided arm. The town of Woomera in South Australia ...
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Later he led one of the first British teams to shoot down target aircraft with remote-controlled missiles, and spent two years at Woomera Rocket Range in Australia.
The resulting burst of gamma radiation produced an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that blew out every telephone, vid-screen, transformer, and electric sheep-shearer from Woomera to Sydney, and caused the sewage system in Melbourne to run backward.