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Thread ID: 94196	2008-10-19 05:11:00	Red Center/Centre in Australia	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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713167	2008-10-19 05:11:00	Just saw an amazing documentary about a big red rock in the center of Australia..wow...impressive. Can anyone tell me if they've been there?	SurferJoe46 (51)
713168	2008-10-19 05:37:00	I think it exists in the dreamtime only, that's what aborigine's call Uluru no haven't been there	gary67 (56)
713169	2008-10-19 05:54:00	Parents have just been there. They said it was great but everything costs a lot!	CYaBro (73)
713170	2008-10-19 06:16:00	It's called Ayer's Rock and several people have died climbing it. They failed to follow the white line that runs from bottom to top. It can also be slippery when wet - worth a visit Joe.	decibel (11645)
713171	2008-10-19 07:08:00	It's where the baby Azaria was taken by a dingo Joe, you must remember that there was world-wide publicity and a movie with Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain.. en.wikipedia.org www.dskendall.com	zqwerty (97)
713172	2008-10-19 08:23:00	I have been there. It is a magnificent sight. Apparently, it also extends 2.5km, that's about 1.5 miles to you, Joe, into the ground. The soil in the whole area is red, I think it is the same in most of Australia. Cheers, Marnie	Marnie (4574)
713173	2008-10-19 15:12:00	I have been there . It is a magnificent sight . Apparently, it also extends 2 . 5km, that's about 1 . 5 miles to you, Joe, into the ground . The soil in the whole area is red, I think it is the same in most of Australia . Cheers, Marnie The redness of the site amazed me . . . although the gamma might be a little higher on my TV and caused a lot of saturation . . . The redness is also just like Arizona . . . around the Grand Canyon too . The dirt there is red and when it sticks to your shoes it is strange to someone like me who is used to dirt being, well . . . dirty . The area in which I am invested in Arizona is near Snowflake and Concho and they too are red-dirted . I was particularly interested in the Southern coastline . . . the world's longest sea-wall cliffs . They said that you could walk to Antarctica across those cliffs which were attached to both continents before the tectonic drift, a few weeks ago . Incredible photography by the same guy who did a few documentaries on New York City and other places . . . I think London, England was another . I look forward to getting the DVD-video of that aerial tour soon from the public library here in Hemet . They have it ordered and PBS - which is what we call: "public television" and has no governmental sources for funding, relies upon selling those documentaries for monies . Anyway . . . . from the air, Australia is an amazing place . . . about the same size as the US continent and has some really unbelievable environs and climatic extremes to view . Someday I would truly love to go there and see for myself . Does anyone know if those cliffs on the Southern Coast are friendly climate-wise to humans? It looks so hot . . but then I equate South with heat and North with cold . . . but it's all different in Upsidedown Land I believe . I'm going to go to G-Maps and look around a little for a while . . . Ah! An armchair tour from 2,000 feet! Once I took a tour of some of the bays and inlets of NZ on your Southern shore . . . looking at the very occasional rooftops, seeing tractors in the fields, out-buildings with footpaths to and from them, rows of furrowed tractor-work and some crops which were pretty much indistinguishable to me . There were some very open and desolated places . . . but I could almost always see a human imprint on the land . Do you have truly uninhabited areas as they appear? Or are they all owned and tilled and cropped by vast land owner-barons like there are in Texas and Arizona? I loved looking at the beaches and frankly, I toured along one coastline for what I think was hundreds of miles and never saw any docks or ports of size or with much more than an occasional small-craft or series of fishing boats . There were some areas that were strategically redacted from view by G-Maps . . . I wonder if that's where NZ makes it's weapons of mass destruction in secret . Perhaps the US needs to launch an "expeditionary force" to see for themselves . Nothing serious, mind you . . . just a "look-see" to ascertain that you aren't making weapons-grade uranium material and rocket bases . I think a fully-equipped group of guys with camping gear, cameras and orders to NOT interfere with the local traditions and customs . . would be OK with youse guys . . . right? They would just want to look around an indeterminate while .	SurferJoe46 (51)
713174	2008-10-19 17:11:00	Yes we do have true wilderness areas here although all of the national parks have tracks and huts in them but we have places like the Gardens of Allah and Eden high in the southern alps and as few others as well	gary67 (56)
713175	2008-10-19 17:40:00	We have no need for weapons of mass destruction. We are defended by a customs department that will bore most invaders into submission in interminable queues. (Their techniques make the fabled maze-caves of the ancients look like a childrens party.) After that the invaders are launched into Auckland's rush-hour (Hah!) traffic to starve and suffocate. There they can be bombarded into terminal boredom by electoral hucksters. Any survivors can be picked off by senior citizen pedestrian patrols not hampered by trying to move a vehicle. :help: This serial confusion technique has succesfully repelled all invasions for the past 200 years, so the paper bombardment brigade from Wellington has not needed to be tested in combat yet (although they keep their skills honed by constant training with avalanche attacks on the hapless natives). Our main defense is also regularly exercised, the Telecom squads are constantly devising and testing means to harass and block all communications. Unlike the other defenses, this one is self-funding.	R2x1 (4628)
713176	2008-10-19 19:26:00	This serial confusion technique has succesfully repelled all invasions for the past 200 years, so the paper bombardment brigade from Wellington has not needed to be tested in combat yet (although they keep their skills honed by constant training with avalanche attacks on the hapless natives) . Our main defense is also regularly exercised, the Telecom squads are constantly devising and testing means to harass and block all communications . Unlike the other defenses, this one is self-funding . One of their greater skills would be that of making and firing paper darts, this is to ensure they are totally ready to face any combat test . Sometimes these darts are dipped in strange substances for various purposes . Causing the enemy to lose consciousness or reason . Some cause ill health problems such as high blood pressure, strokes, heart attacks, or heartburn . Mostly these darts contain tell-tale marks of coffee cup rings, cracker and krispie crumbs, smears of grease from doughnuts, even the occasional smell of some of them having had a liquid lunch .	Marnie (4574)
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