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The Voice Australia fans call out ‘underwhelming’ finale: ‘What on earth has happened to Australian TV?!’

The Voice Australia viewers have called out the show’s grand finale over one very ‘underwhelming’ detail.

The 2024 final aired on Sunday night, with LeAnn Rimes’ act Reuben De Melo being crowned the winner of the singing competition.

The father-of-three appeared shocked when host Sonia Kruger told him he had won $100,000 in prize money and an artist development package with Studios 301.

However, disgruntled fans complained about the finale being pre-recorded as they pointed out that Reuben’s reaction appeared somewhat underwhelming.

While earlier series of The Voice have featured live finals, the singing contest has been pre-recorded in more recent years, with four alternate endings being taped.

The final contestants only find out the result when the show airs on Channel Seven after the public vote, with many viewers complaining Reuben’s reaction looked ‘fake’.

Taking to social media, one fan fumed: ‘Wish it was actually live so we didn’t have pre-recorded fake reactions.’

Another questioned: ‘Can they bring back live results reactions?! His reaction seemed so underwhelming.’

The Voice Australia viewers have called out the show’s grand finale over one very ‘underwhelming’ detail after Reuben De Melo (pictured) was crowned the 2024 winner

A third commented: ‘I can’t get my head around pre-recording the result. It takes the emotion out of the result. Reuben seemed totally underwhelmed.

‘His family seemed so happy and tearful but we know that it was acting so it takes the joy out of watching it.’

While another raged: ‘Why was the Finale prerecorded? Either have a live finale or don’t bother, ridiculous to end it like that, did you record every artist winning? What on earth has happened to Australian TV? On a happier note, congrats Reuben!’

Another added: ‘He seems like the nicest person. This wasn’t a criticism of him but the process of pre-recording. No-one had won at that point so the reactions were all pretend. Congratulations to him- he is incredible.’

A friend of Reuben’s also commented on The Voice’s Instagram winner reveal post to insist that the singer’s reaction was much more genuine when the show aired on TV.

‘Reuben is one of my great friends. We had a watch party and trust me, he was not underwhelmed when we all heard the news!’ they wrote.

‘I’m sure he’ll share on his socials. It was a great moment and couldn’t have been won by someone more deserving!’

The winner of the 2021 show Bella Taylor Smith previously complained that it was a ‘weird’ experience having to record four separate final results in one day.

Upon his victory, disgruntled fans complained about the finale being pre-recorded as they pointed out that Reuben’s reaction appeared ‘fake’ (he is pictured with coach LeAnn Rimes)

‘The night of the grand final was full-on busy because not only did we have to film the four alternate endings, but also the four singles performed at the end,’ she told Yahoo Lifestyle.

‘And then that night we also did our duets with the coaches and our solo performances as well, and then you had to clean up the confetti at the end and do all of that stuff.’

In Sunday night’s finale, Reuben admitted he never thought he would make it to the end of the competition as he was crowned the 2024 winner.

‘I never thought I’d get this far, this is crazy,’ he said in the pre-recorded segment upon his victory.

Elsewhere, celebrity coach LeAnn was quick to share kind words for her mentee following his triumphant win.

‘I’m so proud,’ the Can’t Fight The Moonlight singer gushed.

‘You deserve every bit of this moment and I’m so honoured that I could be on this journey with you. You are incredible.’

Reuben competed in the grand finale alongside Annie Jones from Team Adam, Jaedyn Randell from Team Kate and SKŸE from Team Guy.

Reuben won $100,000 in prize money plus a music masterclass and industry recording development package with Alexandria-based Studios 301.

It was the first year the winner was not offered an automatic record deal with Universal Music Australia or EMI Music Australia.

It was claimed the controversial move could actually be a good thing for the 2024 winner and break the ‘terrible cycle’ of talents failing to profit of their wins.

Judge Kate defended the change as she claimed being ‘shackled’ to a major label early on in your career can be a curse rather than a blessing.

‘In the past, some of these artists have ended up locked into contracts with major labels before they’ve even really figured out who they are as artists,’ she told TV Tonight.

Reuben competed in the grand finale alongside Annie Jones (centre) from Team Adam, Jaedyn Randell (left) from Team Kate and SKŸE (right) from Team Guy

‘You do need time as an artist to be able to hone your craft. I think the risk, when you’re so young or inexperienced, to go out there and be shackled to a major label right off the bat is too early.’

In a breathtaking final solo performance of House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals, Rueben left all four coaches in awe, with Kate-Miller Heidke praising it as ‘exceptional’.

‘I can’t stop smiling. You just gave it your all. That was just insane,’ added LeAnn, who also joined Reuben onstage for a heartfelt duet of Fix You by Coldplay.

Reuben captivated Australian audiences – and the show’s judges Adam Lambert, Guy Sebastian, Kate and LeAnn – with his very first Blind Audition.

Eager to snap him up, LeAnn used her Ultimate Block to guarantee he would be on her team.

‘I knew as soon as he opened his mouth, and I heard him sing. There was just so much feeling there,’ she said at the time.

‘There was no way I was letting any of the other coaches get to him before I did.’

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October 28, 2024
Tech billionaire returns to Earth after first private spacewalk

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has traveled since NASA’s moonwalkers.

SpaceX’s capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida’s Dry Tortugas in the predawn darkness, carrying tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, two SpaceX engineers and a former Air Force Thunderbird pilot.

They pulled off the first private spacewalk while orbiting nearly 460 miles (740 kilometers) above Earth, higher than the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope. Their spacecraft hit a peak altitude of 875 miles (1,408 kilometers) following Tuesday’s liftoff.

Isaacman became only the 264th person to perform a spacewalk since the former Soviet Union scored the first in 1965, and SpaceX’s Sarah Gillis the 265th. Until now, all spacewalks were done by professional astronauts.

“We are mission complete,” Isaacman radioed as the capsule bobbed in the water, awaiting the recovery team.

It was the first time SpaceX aimed for a splashdown near the Dry Tortugas, a cluster of islands 70 miles (113 kilometers) west of Key West. To celebrate the new location, SpaceX employees brought a big, green turtle balloon to Mission Control at company headquarters in Hawthorne, California. The company usually targets closer to the Florida coast, but two weeks of poor weather forecasts prompted SpaceX to look elsewhere.

During Thursday’s commercial spacewalk, the Dragon capsule’s hatch was open barely a half-hour. Isaacman emerged only up to his waist to briefly test SpaceX’s brand new spacesuit followed by Gillis, who was knee high as she flexed her arms and legs for several minutes. Gillis, a classically trained violinist, also held a performance in orbit earlier in the week.

The spacewalk lasted less than two hours, considerably shorter than those at the International Space Station. Most of that time was needed to depressurize the entire capsule and then restore the cabin air. Even SpaceX’s Anna Menon and Scott “Kidd” Poteet, who remained strapped in, wore spacesuits.

SpaceX considers the brief exercise a starting point to test spacesuit technology for future, longer missions to Mars.

This was Isaacman’s second chartered flight with SpaceX, with two more still ahead under his personally financed space exploration program named Polaris after the North Star. He paid an undisclosed sum for his first spaceflight in 2021, taking along contest winners and a pediatric cancer survivor while raising more than $250 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

For the just completed so-called Polaris Dawn mission, the founder and CEO of the Shift4 credit card-processing company shared the cost with SpaceX. Isaacman won’t divulge how much he spent.

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September 15, 2024
Billionaire’s spacewalk delayed several hours hundreds of miles above Earth

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A billionaire stepped out for the first private spacewalk Thursday, teaming up with SpaceX on the daring endeavor hundreds of miles above Earth.

Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and his crew waited until their capsule was depressurized before popping open the hatch. Isaacman emerged first, joining a small elite group of spacewalkers who until now had included only professional astronauts from a dozen countries.

It was the main focus of the five-day flight financed by Isaacman and Elon Musk’s company, and the culmination of years of development geared toward settling Mars and other planets.

All four on board donned SpaceX’s new spacewalking suits to protect themselves from the harsh vacuum. They launched on Tuesday from Florida, rocketing farther from Earth than anyone since NASA’s moonwalkers. The orbit was reduced by half — to 460 miles (740 kilometers) — for the spacewalk.

This first spacewalking test, expected to last about two hours, involved more stretching than walking. The plan called for Isaacman to keep a hand or foot attached to it the whole time as he flexed his arms and legs to see how the new spacesuit would hold up. The hatch sported a walker-like structure for extra support.

After about 15 minutes outside, Isaacman was to be replaced by SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis to go through the same motions.

Each had 12-foot (3.6-meter) tethers but no intention of unfurling them or dangling at the end unlike what happens at the International Space Station, where astronauts routinely float out to do repairs at a much lower orbit.

More and more wealthy passengers are plunking down huge sums for rides aboard private rockets to experience a few minutes of weightlessness. Other have spent tens of millions to stay in space for days or even weeks. Space experts and risk analysts say it’s inevitable that some will seek the thrill of spacewalking, deemed one of the most dangerous parts of spaceflight after launch and reentry but also the most soul-stirring.

This operation was planned down to the minute with little room for error. Trying out new spacesuits from a spacecraft new to spacewalking added to the risk. So did the fact that the entire capsule was exposed to the vacuum of space.

Scott “Kidd” Poteet, a former Air Force Thunderbird pilot, and SpaceX engineer Anna Menon stayed strapped to their seats to monitor from inside. All four underwent intensive training before the trip.

Isaacman, 41, CEO and founder of the Shift4 credit card-processing company, has declined to disclose how much he invested in the flight. It was the first of three flights in a program he’s dubbed Polaris; this one was called Polaris Dawn. For SpaceX’s inaugural private flight in 2021, he took up contest winners and a cancer survivor.

Until Thursday, only 263 people had conducted a spacewalk, representing 12 countries. The Soviet Union’s Alexei Leonov kicked it off in 1965, followed a few months later by NASA’s Ed White.

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September 12, 2024
Feeling the heat as Earth breaks yet another record for hottest summer

Summer 2024 sweltered to Earth’s hottest on record, making it even more likely that this year will end up as the warmest humanity has measured, European climate service Copernicus reported Friday.

And if this sounds familiar, that’s because the records the globe shattered were set just last year as human-caused climate change, with a temporary boost from an El Nino, keeps dialing up temperatures and extreme weather, scientists said.

The northern meteorological summer — June, July and August — averaged 16.8 degrees Celsius (62.24 degrees Fahrenheit), according to Copernicus. That’s 0.03 degrees Celsius (0.05 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the old record in 2023. Copernicus records go back to 1940, but American, British and Japanese records, which start in the mid-19th century, show the last decade has been the hottest since regular measurements were taken and likely in about 120,000 years, according to some scientists.

The Augusts of both 2024 and 2023 tied for the hottest Augusts globally at 16.82 degrees Celsius (62.27 degrees Fahrenheit). July was the first time in more than a year that the world did not set a record, a tad behind 2023, but because June 2024 was so much hotter than June 2023, this summer as a whole was the hottest, Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo said.

“What those sober numbers indicate is how the climate crisis is tightening its grip on us,” said Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research, who wasn’t part of the research.

It’s a sweaty grip because with the high temperatures, the dew point — one of several ways to measure the air’s humidity — probably was at or near record high this summer for much of the world, Buontempo said.

Until last month Buontempo, like some other climate scientists, was on the fence over whether 2024 would smash the hottest year record set last year, mostly because August 2023 was so enormously hotter than average. But then this August 2024 matched 2023, making Buontempo “pretty certain” that this year will end up hottest on record.

“In order for 2024 not to become the warmest on record, we need to see very significant landscape cooling for the remaining few months, which doesn’t look likely at this stage,” Buontempo said.

With a forecasted La Nina — a temporary natural cooling of parts of the central Pacific — the last four months of the year may no longer be record-setters like most of the past year and a half. But it’s not likely cool enough to keep 2024 from breaking the annual record, Buontempo said.

These aren’t just numbers in a record book, but weather that hurts people, climate scientists said.

“This all translates to more misery around the world as places like Phoenix start to feel like a barbecue locked on high for longer and longer stretches of the year,” said University of Michigan environment dean and climate scientist Jonathan Overpeck. The Arizona city has had more than 100 days of 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius) weather this year. “With longer and more severe heat waves come more severe droughts in some places, and more intense rains and flooding in others. Climate change is becoming too obvious, and too costly, to ignore.”

Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Cape Cod, said there’s been a deluge of extreme weather of heat, floods, wildfires and high winds that are violent and dangerous.

“Like people living in a war zone with the constant thumping of bombs and clatter of guns, we are becoming deaf to what should be alarm bells and air-raid sirens,” Francis said in an email.

While a portion of last year’s record heat was driven by an El Nino — a temporary natural warming of parts of the central Pacific that alters weather worldwide — that effect is gone, and it shows the main driver is long-term human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, Buontempo said.

“It’s really not surprising that we see this, this heat wave, that we see these temperature extremes,” Buontempo said. “We are bound to see more.”

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September 6, 2024
Boeing will fly its empty capsule back to Earth soon. Two NASA astronauts will stay behind

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Boeing will attempt to return its problem-plagued capsule from the International Space Station later this week — with empty seats.

NASA said Wednesday that everything is on track for the Starliner capsule to undock from the space station Friday evening. The fully automated capsule will aim for a touchdown in New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range six hours later.

NASA’s two stuck astronauts who flew up on Starliner will remain behind at the orbiting lab. They’ll ride home with SpaceX in February, eight months after launching on what should have been a weeklong test flight. Thruster trouble and helium leaks kept delaying their return until NASA decided that it was too risky for them to accompany Starliner back as originally planned.

“It’s been a journey to get here and we’re excited to have Starliner return,” said NASA’s commercial crew program manager Steve Stich.

NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will close the hatches between Starliner and the space station on Thursday. They are now considered full-time station crew members along with the seven others on board, helping with experiments and maintenance, and ramping up their exercise to keep their bones and muscles strong during their prolonged exposure to weightlessness.

To make room for them on SpaceX’s next taxi flight, the Dragon capsule will launch with two astronauts instead of the usual four. Two were cut late last week from the six-month expedition, which is due to blast off in late September. Boeing has to free up the parking place for SpaceX’s arrival.

Boeing encountered serious flaws with Starliner long before its June 5 liftoff on the long-delayed astronaut demo.

Starliner’s first test flight went so poorly in 2019 — the capsule never reached the space station because of software errors — that the mission was repeated three years later. More problems surfaced, resulting in even more delays and more than $1 billion in repairs.

The capsule had suffered multiple thruster failures and propulsion-system helium leaks by the time it pulled up at the space station after launch. Boeing conducted extensive thruster tests in space and on the ground, and contended the capsule could safely bring the astronauts back. But NASA disagreed, setting the complex ride swap in motion.

Starliner will make a faster, simpler getaway than planned, using springs to push away from the space station and then short thruster firings to gradually increase the distance. The original plan called for an hour of dallying near the station, mostly for picture-taking; that was cut to 20 or so minutes to reduce the stress on the capsule’s thrusters and keep the station safe.

Additional test firings of Starliner’s 28 thrusters are planned before the all-important descent from orbit. Engineers want to learn as much as they can since the thrusters won’t return to Earth; the section containing them will be ditched before the capsule reenters.

The stuck astronauts — retired Navy captains — have lived on the space station before and settled in just fine, according to NASA officials. Even though their mission focus has changed, “they’re just as dedicated for the success of human spaceflight going forward,” flight director Anthony Vareha said.

Their blue Boeing spacesuits will return with the capsule, along with some old station equipment.

NASA hired Boeing and SpaceX a decade ago to ferry its astronauts to and from the space station after its shuttles retired. SpaceX accomplished the feat in 2020 and has since launched nine crews for NASA and four for private customers.

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September 4, 2024