Random Thoughts

[archibaldcrane]

Australia is 11x larger than Texas, has fewer people, and 87% of them live within 31 miles of the coast.

There's NOBODY in the middle of that huge bitch.

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[kuronosan]

Nobody except mean fucking kangaroos and growling koalas.

[Outlaw]

I saw a documentary one time about the interior of Australia and the people and what goes on there. That shit was wild.

[Krandor]

Australia is fairly close in size (80%ish) to the continental US, and the size of the desert is basically like if every state not touching a coastline was uninhabitable

[thetruepandagod]

I saw a documentary one time about the interior of Australia and the people and what goes on there. That shit was wild.

name?

[Salodin]

Australia is fairly close in size (80%ish) to the continental US, and the size of the desert is basically like if every state not touching a coastline was uninhabitable

Kinda like the US tbh

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[Demosthenes]

Kinda like the US tbh

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The US has lakes, rivers forests an arable farmland and towns less than 100s of miles apart in places that aren't a desert. Imagine if everything from Idaho, Nevada and Arizona was a desert then across to Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana. Nobody would want to live in any of the states on the inside of the listed states. Roads if they exist will probably just be graded roads. Gas stations would be thousands of miles apart and people driving would have several jerrycans of gas and potable water. Transport of materials would probably happen by road trains just like Australia because maintaining actual rails across those distances in a fucking desert would be a nightmare.

[Salodin]

No too dissimilar from the nightmare of middle America

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[Roranora]

not at all salo

but feel free to keep up the flyover banter

[Tyrath]

The world map making australia look smaller really did a number on people huh?

[Salodin]

not at all salo

but feel free to keep up the flyover banter

We don't have to talk about it or admit it, but when affordability isn't a factor everyone for some reason wants to hang out in the outside states I wonder why

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[Demosthenes]

The world map making australia look smaller really did a number on people huh?

Mercator reprojection has fucked with people's heads.

[Demosthenes]

We don't have to talk about it or admit it, but when affordability isn't a factor everyone for some reason wants to hang out in the outside states I wonder why

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I'm sure if you think about it, you can come up with why. If you're white most of the US is your oyster if you want it to be. The outback straight up doesn't give a shit about that though. Keep pretending flyover states are somehow comparable to no water or gas for thousands of miles.

[Cantih]

The world map making australia look smaller really did a number on people huh?

MapsWithoutNZ

Also, Dymaxion Map Supremacy