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Australia Is On So Much Fire, You Can See It From Orbit
Jeremy Lee writes "Temperatures in Australia this week hit the point where the Bureau of Meteorology had to invent a new color. And with heat and winds come Bushfires. So it's probably good that I made a real-time bushfire map with every known source of public data directly relating to fires in Australia, mostly because fire doesn't respect state borders."
From space.
Once you've smelled burning kangaroo mixed with the acrid stench of melted dune-buggy and dead mutant, you're never the same again. I can still hear the koalas screaming in my nightmares.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
They had to invent a new colour, Australia wasn't visible from space before
Watch those corners
Octarine? That could explain its invisibility from space, I suppose.
Australia is pleased and proud to announce that the number of horrid and lethally venomous creatures per hectare has reached historic lows!
What's the big deal? It's 54 degrees here in Texas right now...what? metric? we don't do metric here in Texas. How much is that in 'merican? Wow, that IS hot. Never mind.
My brain is overly lubricated
Something with a little kick to it.
Greetings, time traveler from the early 21st century. It's only 2013 now, maybe you should have gone for a longer journey than coming from 2012.
i look forward to this vegetation free world were i can be safe from forest fires.
That's nothing. I slept through the end of the world a few weeks ago.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
You know must of us English speakers, both in the USA and else were would have written "So Much of Australia is on Fire" for a headline. "Australia Is On So Much Fire" Sounds like George Lucas is posting now.
Most of us English speakers would have written:
"You know most of us English speakers, both in the USA and elsewhere, would have written "So Much of Australia is on Fire" for a headline.
It appears that they are using it instead for Fire in the Sky.
Should you put "and" in quotes or should we wait for the rest of the sentence?
I want to be a grammar nazi too. ;-)
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Oh, and we have a cure or treatment for every venereal disease now!
Greetings time traveler from the 22nd century.
rather then argue with you id say your rite wen it cums to ppl dropping some real anachronistic and arcane usages of grammer speling is also real grate hear U definately have a point weve cum a long way!!! i think the affect of this has bin AWESOME!!!
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
It's not 50. You see, most charts, you know, will be capped at 50. You're at 50 here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on 50 on your chart. Where can you go from there? Where?
I don't know.
Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Put it up to 54.
54. Exactly. 4 Hotter.
That particular colour cannot be used to indicate bushfires. I believe it's been reserved for smoke on the water only.
Another old joke about this problem:
Visitor to Harvard: "Where's your library at?"
Harvard student: "This is Harvard. We don't end our sentences with a preposition."
Visitor; "Ok, where's your library at, jerk?"
I am officially gone from