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Australia Is On So Much Fire, You Can See It From Orbit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-you-can-prevent-burning-australia-to-cinders dept.

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.

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  1. The smell, the horrible smell by crazyjj · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  2. Re:BBQ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Something with a little kick to it.

  3. Re:Demise of the English langauge by Bill_the_Engineer · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  4. Our temperature scale goes up to 54 by qzjul · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.