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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

It would become the most deadly ocean in the world ... with deadly spiders, snakes that learn to swim and kangaroos learning to wade in the shallows

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Drop bears would evolve into Float bears!

[-] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

Is that the …loving term for those big spiders? Huntsmans iirc?

[-] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

No, that's the term for a specific breed of carnivorous koalas that drops on their victim from trees.

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Gotta put on your protective gear

[-] Quokka@quokk.au 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Then we were doomed before they even started to move the Mediterranean

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Dolphins won’t let Roos in on there territory, unless they give good handies maybe.

[-] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There is occasionally a plan put forward to flood the inland, much of which is near sea level. You would just need to pump seawater a few km from the Gulf of St Vincent into the low lying and largely useless land north of Port Augusta.

The evaporation of the inland water would increase the rainfall on the eastern seaboard.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

iirc the idea is to build a cannal but no cannal ever built could ever replace the water fast enough or provide the circulation neccesary to stop the whole thing ending up as another dead sea.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

It fits pretty well in the continental United States, too!

[-] callyral@pawb.social 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I didn't realize Brazil would also fit it, wow. I thought I'd have to rotate it

Map showing Brazil containing the Mediterranean, with lots of space left over in the south. Brazil is mildly distorted to account for the curvature of the Earth

Source: thetruesize.com

[-] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

That’s because of the damned Mercadian map projection, it makes Europe seem much larger than it is.

Fun? fact: Africa is A LOT bigger than you think.

[-] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yea. But iirc their coastline is smaller than Norway's

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Every country has their own favorite coastline statistic.

Denmark has the largest coastline to area ratio with 172 m of coast per km^2

Unofficially there are probably even smaller island nations with higher ratios though.

[-] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

One way to get more Blue states?

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

I should buy a boat. 🐱 📰

[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] justlemmyin@lemmy.world -3 points 2 weeks ago

LOL. Meme about rest of the world, USA shows up to make it theres. 😅

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Australia is the rest of the world?

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

If they do this it will just spawn new poisonous animals and insects to kill us off.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Best case: drop bear population declines.

Worst case: drop bears become amphibians.

[-] Geobloke@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Best case: phenomenal fishing

Worst case: taipans breed with cane toads as a punishment for mankind's hubris

[-] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

In the worst case where do kangaroos come in?

[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately most of that area is desert. Drop bear populations would remain largely unaffected. Kangaroos with long flippers might be a possibility.

[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Of course! It was ours until Trump kidnapped it and put it in Europe to strengthen his claim on Greenland. Don't try to make sense of it.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 points 2 weeks ago

It would drown five people of European descent, but also make about 80 languages extinct.

[-] binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I saw a video a decade ago where they had low quality facts like “Did you know that if you dropped Australia on the state of Utah, at least five people would die?” I desperately wanted to show it to someone the other day because it was so relevant to our discussion, but I simply could not find it. Internet searches are worthless now. I’m sure this joke has been made 100 times in slightly different way, but I couldn’t find anything even close after 30 minutes of searching.

It never even occurred to me that I would need to save videos I didn’t want lost to time.

[-] huppakee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Internet searches are worthless now.

Ikr, my skill level keeps on increasing but it's not getting me anywhere anymore :(.

[-] YawningNostalgia@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 weeks ago

I was on tumblr so much when I was growing up and it's so hard to find old references now. My skill level hasn't increased by much, I just wanted the internet to be the playground it once was.

I wish I had a twin sister who would know my references effortlessly.

[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] PDFuego@aussie.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

Australia used to have an inland sea existing 120 to 90 million years ago called the Eromanga Sea

*looks up Eromanga*

Oh no

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago
[-] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It kinda makes sense though, there really is a below-sea-level spot:

[-] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 1 points 2 weeks ago

This made me curious how big the sea is. 3.75 million cubic kilometers. Goddamn. Even if australia had a completely flat landscape, the amount of time it would take to excavate that large of an area is mind boggling.

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