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Sydney professional Wayne Riley has a one stroke lead going into the final round of
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Riley shot a two under par round of seventy today for a fifty four hole total of two hundred
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The country's best sprinters taking the spotlight.
The ampoule stakes brought together Epsom winner Riverdale and the champion Veet Shevall.
Here are the closing stages.
Trying to get a run back on the fence.
Mr. Ironclad further out and further back.
Show Moran at the four hundred Riverdale and keepers fighting it out for Mr. Ironclad.
Veet Shevall has blocked in badly with nowhere to go.
Riverdale and keepers fighting it out for Mr. Ironclad.
Then Show Moran and Exemplify down the outside.
It's Riverdale ahead in front of keepers with a hundred to go.
I think he's going to get the big double.
Yes Riverdale's in front of keepers and on the outside Exemplify and he's got there Riverdale.
Riverdale's won the money about a half length to other Exemplify and close up keepers.
A good win to Riverdale and he paid one dollar fifty and sixty five cents.
Exemplify one dollar fifteen keepers paid one dollar ninety five for third.
On the local scene the Queen's plate over a thousand metres was the main race on today's
card at Ascot.
Getting there was sent out at favourite at even money.
Flatten for Hyman getting there in front Kemp went for the whip.
Andrew Cole's coming down the outside the person fly trying to get to it and Jungle
Movement getting up along the rail with Dark Chalice down the outside.
It's getting there in front.
Jungle Movement trying to get to it and down the outside Dark Chalice will tip them all
out.
Dark Chalice got up to win from Jungle Movement and getting there.
Dark Chalice paid six dollars forty and one dollar thirty.
Jungle Movement seven dollars fifty and getting there paid seventy cents.
A look at the novelty betting at Ascot today.
The forecast Quinella on race three at Ascot paid one hundred and eleven dollars twenty
five for the numbers five and one.
The Quartet on race five the numbers you wanted five eight six and four.
Made the dividend wait for it twenty seven thousand three hundred and sixty five dollars
and sixty cents.
The Quinella on race six paid three dollars forty for the numbers three and six.
The Daily Double number one Twit Echo and number fourteen Javu paid forty six dollars
sixty five.
And finally the Race Eight trifecta fourteen eight and three paid three hundred and ninety
dollars sixty five.
There was a fall in the last race when Sovereign Ghost came down in the straight.
The jockey Greg Maker wasn't seriously hurt.
The world's top ranked surfer South African Sean Thompson has been sensationally eliminated
from the Tracer Wind and Waves Prime at Trigg Beach.
Thompson was beaten in the first heat by 1984 Schoolboys champion Dean Whiteman from New
South Wales.
Thompson's shock defeat is a blow to the organisers of WA's richest board riding event but he
was philosophical saying he didn't catch enough of the small waves that were out there.
The other upset was the victory of local Greg McCauley over Wayne Rabbit Bartholomew.
With those two champions now amongst the spectators Byron Bay surfer Shane Horan's chances of
moving into the final and improving his world ranking from five to four are looking good.
Horan using his winged fin board defeated West Australian Anthony Lynch today to move
into the last twelve.
Others to move into tomorrow's final round include Dave McCauley, the removed American
Mike Parsons, Greg Day from New South Wales with a win over defending Tracer champion
Stuart Bedford Brown, Barton Lynch and Kingsley Looker rated 24th in the world.
All set for some great surfing tomorrow we'll have Erika with all the weather details next
on Sevens Nightly News.
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Hello everyone it was a beautiful day in Perth today. I hope you managed to get
along to the beach. Minimum was 12.4 at 5.35 this morning when you're out for that
early morning jog. Maximum got up to 23 and that was at 11.20 this morning and
I'd be inclined to head for the beach again tomorrow. If we look at the surface
chart the northeastern Kimberley had a few seasonal thunderstorms today and
there were a few showers reported along the south coast but it's all heading to
the east. The northern Kimberley will continue with its thunderstorms but
tomorrow should be fine day throughout the state. A little bit of drizzle tonight
in the Euclid area but apart from that the high is centered around about
Esperance tomorrow and we're going to have a lovely fine easterly airflow
across the state that'll give the farmers chance to dry up their hay. The
temperature on the way up as I said to on Monday more northwesterly
northeasterly winds rather so it'll be even hotter. Tuesday we may be in for a
slight change but it'll still be up around the early 20s. Around WA tomorrow
temperatures as I mentioned will be up a couple of degrees right around the coast
in fact. The highest reported maximum in the state today was 43 up at Derby.
Actually they're going for 43 again tomorrow. The highest reported maximum was 20
down at Albany and as you can see a couple of degrees up for them tomorrow
too. Six o'clock in the city temperature was 20.8. Barometer at 1022.6 it was
falling and the humidity was 63%. Coastal waters forecast perfect day tomorrow
during beta mangera easterly winds 12 to 18 knots developing tonight but they
should ease off in the morning before shifting to a southwesterly sea breeze
10 to 15 knots and that'll be early in the afternoon. Sea should be mainly
slight on a low swirl. In Perth and the metropolitan area the forecast for
tomorrow continuing fine with easterly winds and that afternoon sea breeze.
Minimum tonight 13 and the maximum tomorrow 26 maybe a little bit warmer and
the fire danger is moderate. Good night everyone. Good night Alison. Good night
Erica. Well they were the main stories from the Channel 7 newsroom. I'll be back
at 7.30 with the latest news headlines. Until then good night.
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In this series we're going to take you on a voyage of discovery that has no
precedent an aerial circumnavigation of the entire continent of Australia and
that's as far as from Sydney to London. So remote and inaccessible as some parts
of our coastline that very few people have ever seen them and certainly never
filmed them. This is because there are no roads you can't get anywhere by car you
can't get near them by sea because the coast is too treacherous and of course
if you fly over them in a civil aircraft you don't see anything. The only way to
explore these areas is to fly very low and quite slowly as we did in our float
planes. We use float planes because once you get away from the major cities on
the coastline there are very few landing strips but with our floats we can land on
rivers, lakes, harbours, estuaries even on the open sea. Of course the first man to
sail right around Australia was Matthew Flinders in 1802. He went anti-clockwise
and that's the way we're going and in fact we're starting where Flinders
started at Cape Lewin in Western Australia. We turn first of all this
wild and stormy corner to Albany and then along the southern coast to
Esperance where we take a trip to some of the islands of the Ruchesh
Archipelago. Then we turn up into the Great Australian Bight and along the
mighty wall of cliffs at the edge of the Nullarbor Plain. We finish this leg at
Eucla, the little ghost town nestling among the sand hills near the head of the
Bight.
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This is the very southwest corner of Australia, the blunt boughs of the
continent forever batting into the long swells that roll up from the Southern
Ocean driven by the ceaseless winds of the roaring forties. This is where our
story and the European history of Australia begins. This is where the
Dutch and Portuguese navigators outward bound around the Cape first made land
for before turning north towards their colonies in the East Indies. The Dutch
named this coast Lewin's land in honor of the ship Lewin whose captain sighted
the Cape in 1622. Today Cape Lewin is a national park. It's only permanent
inhabitants the families of the lighthouse keepers.
Not long after Cape Lewin was first sighted a Dutch ship named the Zee-Pard
under Peter Newts almost missed its landfall and found itself here below Cape
Lewin heading east. The Zee-Pard's crew were thus the first Europeans to turn
this corner of the continent and sail along the then completely unknown
southern coastline. They were to sail right across the Great Australian Bight
before hastening back around Cape Lewin to Batavia. For nearly 200 years no one
attempted to follow them. Today the southwest corner is very nearly as
deserted as it was then. The only settlement anywhere near Cape Lewin is
the little township of Augusta at the mouth of the Blackwood River.
This region drenched continually by the rain laden westerlies is one of the
wettest parts of the continent.
It rains here for an average of 187 days of the year one day in every two.
The southwest corner also has its mysteries like these conical grass
covered hills rising from the swampy plain so perfectly shaped and so out of
character with the landscape. They look man-made but surely can't be. What
natural forces could shape them like this then clothe them in vegetation? I
can find no explanation.
Nearly 200 years after the Dutch ship Zee-Pard first passed this way Matthew
Flinders began in 1801 from this same stretch of coast his great circumnavigation
of the continent heading east in his little ship the investigator. Flinders
started from here because like the Dutch before him this was where he made his
landfall after sailing from Europe.
For Flinders the coast stretching away endlessly to the east was still unknown.
On the existing maps of Australia there was a huge gap between this western
corner and Van Diemen's land. It was Flinders mission to fill in the map.
Flinders observed in his log that by day he tried to stay close enough to the
land so that breaking water should always be visible from the ship's deck
in order that no river or opening could escape being seen. But at night he hauled
off to a safe distance and it's not hard to understand why.
At last the rocky coastline eases the landscape becomes gentle. We come across
the first sign of human occupation an open-air cattle sale near Walpole.
Behind the hills the Franklin River winds back into the Carey forest of the
Walpole Nornalup National Park. The surviving pocket in what was once the
most densely forested part of Western Australia. And still the forested area
shrinks. Now it's clear felling for the export woodchip industry.
The very first exploitation of the natural resources of the southwest
however took place off the coast.
Whaling was you might say our first primary industry. Whales were hunted from
the moment the first fleet arrived in 1788. By 1840 off this very coast as many
as 300 whaling ships from Nantucket and New Bedford were chasing the sperm and
humpback whales for their oil and whale ban.
Australia was among the last of the whaling nations keeping it going until
1978. But now the sole remaining whaling station in the southern hemisphere is at
last deserted. Its huge ramp bare of carcasses.
In the nearby town there are mixed feelings about what some see is the loss
of a local industry. But the townspeople will no doubt get over it. Whaling will
become just another part of the history of this the oldest white settlement in
Western Australia. It was founded in 1826 by a party of troops and convicts from
New South Wales and was first known as Frederick's town after Frederick Duke of
York and Albany. Today as its 13,000 odd residents will keep reminding you it's
called Albany.
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Flying off Esperance is the largest group of islands on the Australian coastline,
the Recherche Archipelago. Numbering just on a hundred and spread some 200
kilometers along the coast the islands of the Recherche were first sighted by
Peter Newts in the Zee Pad in 1627 on that first accidental excursion.
The islands were not sighted again for nearly 200 years until Admiral Don
Tricasto came along. Eventually the whole archipelago was named after his flagship
La Recherche. All the islands remain uninhabited and many have never even
been landed on. They're all sizes and shapes, some steep and rugged, others low
and rounded, but they're all solid knobs of granite.
One island has an extraordinary feature. By some chance a large permanent lake has
come into existence only a few meters above sea level.
Even more remarkable is the color of the water, a delicate but pronounced pink.
There are pink lakes on the nearby mainland where the color is produced by
salt in the water, so presumably a long period of evaporation has raised the
salt concentration in this lake above that in the surrounding ocean.
The islands of the Recherche are worth a closer look and it's now possible to
inspect those near Esperance on a day trip run by Don Mackenzie and his sons,
the local tugboat operators.
From close by it's not hard to see why many of these wave washed granite
outcrops have never been landed on and why the area is such a haven for wildlife.
But as much as the fur seals are at home in these waters, they're painfully
vulnerable on the rocks where they like to spend their time, a fact not lost on
the early visitors to this country. Seal skins and seal oil were among our first
exports within 10 years of the first settlement at Sydney Cove. At the height
of the trade tens of thousands of seal skins a week were brought to Sydney for
treatment and export, but by about 1830 it was all over. The fur seals had been
hunted to the edge of extinction. Today small colonies like this are steadily
rebuilding all along our southern coastline.
These waters support many kinds of life including some that travel wherever the
currents take them by hitching a ride, in this case on the float from a Japanese
fishing net. These are goose barnacles, a type of crustacean that attaches itself
to any floating object by a foot at the end of its strong muscular stalk.
Although barnacles look a lot like shellfish, they're closely related to
crabs, prawns and crayfish.
This is shown by their feeding habits. The animals in the shells have six pairs
of jointed feathery legs which they extend into the sea to gather food as
other crustaceans do.
When friend has passed through these islands he remarked on the wealth of bird
life, especially the large and handsome Pacific gulls.
The majestic albatross was of course a bird of great omen to sailors.
The osprey is a fish-eating eagle found along coastlines all over the world.
The Mackenzie's with lumps of fish have trained this one to demonstrate its
technique on cue. Some of these solid ground of domes are quite thickly
vegetated even in places with patches of soft green grass and here you may see
that solemn dignified bird the Cape barren goose. Like the seals the geese
had a hard time until recently because not only are they plump and good to eat
but they eat grass and therefore compete with sheep. Although their numbers have
been down to a few thousand pairs little colonies are now building up again on
remote islands like this where they're protected not only by law but by the
difficulty of landing. The islands of the research are now all reserves
administered by the State Fisheries and Fauna Department but the Mackenzie's
have obtained permission to take visitors ashore on this one aptly named
Woody Island.
In the early days before it was known how to improve the coastal pastures
settlers around Esperance tried hard to establish sheep and even cattle on some
of these offshore islands but the problems of access proved too much for
them. Today the islands of the research have reverted to their natural state and
probably stand now much as they did when first the French and then Flinders and
his men came ashore to explore these green and pleasant oases along an
otherwise inhospitable coast.
All this can be found in only half an hour's cruising from Esperance. It's a
reminder that despite nearly 200 years of settlement a vast stretch of our
coastline facing the Southern Ocean remains just as it has always been and
let's hope always will be.
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East of Esperance where the archipelago of the research ends the coastline
flattens out. The last echo of the geological events that produced the
offshore islands is the granite knob of Cape Arid.
Ahead now lies the great Australian Bight.
While we're still in the high rainfall zone lakes gleam like silver on the
coastal plain before shriveling into patterns of salt pans.
But once the coastline begins to arch upwards into the Bight we pass into the
rain shadow of the southwest corner and the climate becomes increasingly arid.
Heaped and piled by the winds the sand forms a weird moonscape of ridges and
hollows, razorbacks and flows that hold their shape like whipped cream.
Amazingly in some hollows behind the beach there are pools of fresh rainwater
and even when this sinks into the sand it floats on top of the underlying salt
water which is denser. This fact saved the life of John Eyre when in 1841 he
stumbled down to these dunes at Point Culver after a nightmare journey across
the desert fringing the Bight. Eyre found fresh water in the hollows just below
the surface and lived to be the first white explorer to make the overland
crossing from South Australia to the west. These pools are the last surface
water we shall see for more than a thousand kilometres until we're halfway
across the continent. Quite suddenly the sand dunes give way to cliffs that rise
abruptly from the ocean. They mark the beginning of one of the most awesome
feats of this or any other continent.
This mighty rampart extending in an unbroken wall to the far horizon and
beyond is the edge of a vast ancient limestone seabed. It was laid down more
than 20 million years ago and the ocean had encroached far inland in this part
of Australia. Later the seas retreated, the land rose and the seafloor became a
coastal plain uplifted high above sea level.
And where the ocean is now slowly eating its way back into the soft underbelly of
the continent you can clearly see the limestone layers of the original
seafloor made of the skeletons of uncountable billions of marine organisms.
There are no breaks in this wall and to Flinders as he sailed past it was
baffling not to know what lay behind him. He thought there might be an interior sea
but there was nowhere to land and climb up, no way to see over the top, not in
those days.
What lies beyond the cliffs is the largest level piece of land on the
planet, the ancient limestone seafloor that we now call the Nullarbor plain.
This is classified as desert, little bit salt bush and other low shrubs grow on
the surface which is too porous to hold water after the sparse rains. But it's not
strictly true to say that there are no trees on the Nullarbor. In places
especially in shallow depressions where soil collects there are drought
resistant trees although they never go very high.
Perhaps only from a height is it possible to appreciate the way the
Nullarbor with a single upward step so perfectly matches the ultimate flatness
of the ocean.
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The old road was unsealed an endless punishing stretch of dust-filled potholes
and sand roads with hundreds of kilometers between service stations and
no one to call in case of breakdown.
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crossing the Nullarbor was once an adventure with time to look around it
now seems to be a matter of getting it over as quickly as possible.
The old road was some way inland but the new highway runs much closer to the
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After more than 150 kilometers the cliffs give way to Twilight Cove. Here a
small basin in the cliffs is kept filled with water by seepage and suddenly
there's life in the desert.
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Although the cliffs disappear eastwards from Twilight Cove there's still no bay,
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Even after John Eyre had pioneered the way along the rim of the Great Australian Bight,
it remained an almost insurmountable barrier because of scarcity of water and the extreme
summer temperatures. The construction of the Overland Telegraph between Adelaide and Albany
eventually completed in 1870 was a desperate struggle. The hardships can easily be imagined
as we follow the track of the old line where it clicked the news to the eastern states from
the English newspapers which arrived in Albany by sea. The Telegraph has finally closed down
half a century ago and the Air Repeater Station, named after the explorer, is now a ruin amid
the encroaching dunes. Today the news, as well as television programmes and thousands
of simultaneous phone calls, are flung across the Nullarbor by microwave via the totem poles
of the electronic age. East of air, the coastal plain widens a little and here is laid out
the whole story of the struggle to establish a foothold on this coast. Here, at a place
they called Euclid, they built a jetty and began a regular supply service by sailing
ship and steamer. In 1885 they proclaimed it a township, although someone did say he
didn't think that all the building blocks would be needed for a century or so. In its
heyday Euclid had 60 permanent inhabitants, with a customs office as well as the most
imposing building, the Telegraph office. But eventually a new direct automatic system bypassed
Euclid's team of Telegraph operators. The coastal line was closed in 1927 and that was
the end of Euclid. But even before that the inhabitants had unwittingly doomed the town.
In the early days they brought in camels to help explore the interior, then they brought
in goats for milk and finally the rabbits arrived with no help from anyone. Between
them these animals denuded the coastal dunes around Euclid of their vegetation and the
sand began to move inland. First it engulfed Euclid itself, then the coast road and it's
still advancing across the coastal plain. To the east it's even sweeping over the
escarpment like breaking surf. To escape the advancing sand the main highway has been diverted
onto higher ground and so have the buildings of the new Euclid, a handful of motels and
service stations. This escarpment is in fact an ancient shoreline where the seas once broke
against the edge of the Nullarbor before retreating millions of years ago. East of Euclid, across
the border with South Australia, the road and the old shoreline swing close to the present
coast. Here you can see how the ocean is steadily eating its way back again towards that ancient
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This is Ethiopia. A thousand people are dying every day. Seven and a half million people,
one third of the population is threatened by starvation. They need food to live. World
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give. Where the sea has actually reached the old shoreline, new cliffs are coming into
existence as the waves carve away the foot of the slope.
And finally, the cliffs raise themselves again into another mighty wall, even higher than
the water. The reason there are no breaks, gorges or inlets in the cliffs of the Nullar
Bore is that there are no rivers to cut them. The rain sinks so rapidly into the porous
limestone that surface flows never develop. But below the surface, it's a different story.
This huge hole, nearly a hundred metres across, is where the roof of a vast underground cave
has fallen in. Such caves, which exist all over the Nullar Bore, are formed by rainwater
percolating down through the limestone and dissolving it. When the roof of such a cave
becomes too thin to support itself, it collapses to form a sinkhole, as this is done. From
the floor of this cave, called Kunalda, a water-worn passage leads at a steep angle
downwards into a mighty underground cavern. Kunalda is difficult to enter and plunged
into perpetual gloom. And so it came as a startling shock to anthropologists when it
was discovered in 1956 that early man had used this cave. He came here, it seems, to
obtain lumps of flint which fall from the walls of the cavern. From this flint, he struck
the cutting edges which were the basic tools of his times. But the men who came here did
more than collect flints. At the extreme depths of the cave, in total darkness, they made
strange markings with hands and sticks on the soft, powdery limestone walls, signs that
have been preserved by the unchanging atmosphere of Kunalda Cave. Radio carbon dating of bits
of charcoal from abandoned torches and fire sticks shows these markings to be at least
20,000 years old. This puts them among the earliest art of man anywhere in the world.
Strangely enough, there's no evidence of any use or occupation of the cave since that time,
well back into the last ice age. Thus, the cave art of Kunalda, its meaning and the identity
of the people who made it, are among the great mysteries of our continent. Kunalda is of world
as well as national significance and has rightly been reserved by the South Australian Government
for future study. Now, somewhere ahead over the misty horizon, lies the head of the bite,
and beyond that a dramatic change from the endless cliffs that seem so forbidding. To
us no less than to air, to Flinders, the Dutch ship Zeepard and Peter Newts, or the coastal
And yet the dramatic scene of confrontation here between sea and land underlines the fleeting
instant of time that has passed since man first came to this continent and reminds us
of how infinitesimal a mark we've made on this great southern coastline.
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Australia has made a disastrous start to their first innings in the first cricket test against
the West Indies at the Waka.
Chasing the West Indians' first innings score of 416, Australia is 3 for 36 at Stumps, with
Alan Bordernot out for 8 and Kim Hughes on 2.
When Gardner and Gomes left the crease after 2, the latter making his highest test score
against Australia, the tourists had completed a most remarkable transformation.
The first five wickets fell for just 104, the last five added 312.
Australia's reply was disastrous.
Dyson went for a duck with the score on 1, and Graham Wood followed after he'd scored
just 6 to leave the Windies with their tails in the air.
And the third batsman's art was Kepler Wessels who was dismissed for 13 to a brilliant catch
by Michael Holding in the gully off Gardner.
In South Australia, angry residents in the opal mining town of Andamooka are tonight
threatening to use force to shift a group of anti-uranium demonstrators.
Feelings are running high among the residents who want the 24 Roxby Downs protesters to
move away from their township.
Extra police have been rushed to the area in case of violence.
And in Victoria, a rail strike due to begin from midnight tomorrow could be a forerunner
of a nationwide industrial dispute.
The strike will stop all trains in Victoria, but union executives will meet again next
week to consider an Australia-wide stoppage.
Back in WA and the winning numbers in tonight's lotto were 21, 20, 1, 12, 38, 6, and the supplementary
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Weather and today's sunny, fine conditions are expected to be repeated tomorrow, with
easterly winds before an afternoon sea breeze.
The maximum should be 26 degrees after an overnight low of 13.
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The feeling is this child was going through sheer hell for several days before he died.
Monday night investigations into the death of a child reveal a horrifying nightmare.
What they do to the kids up there is criminal.
And he gets away with it.
Gets away with murder.
Quincy takes matters into his own hands to have the place shut down.
But you should see the way they treat their kids in there.
They put them in cages like wild animals.
This isn't a group home.
It's a concentration camp.
But a personal involvement spells disaster for Quincy.
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George Papad and a small band of army misfits on a suicide mission in search of Cordova's
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doing what he likes best, fighting crime in the streets.
You see, Walter's a policeman.
Unfortunately, the chief doesn't want Walter on the streets.
Captain, get back to your cage, boy.
Now!
So Walter must fight crime in his own way, in the computer room.
That's where he's an expert.
Fortunately for me, Walter's advanced knowledge of electronics led him to experiment with
what is called a hologram.
That's a very fancy word for a three-dimensional picture that when perfected can be made to
look real, sound real.
As a matter of fact, given enough power, it can even be made to feel real.
That's kind of what got me into this world.