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mineral1
mineral1
WA
4564 posts
WA, 4564 posts
24 Oct 2013 2:34pm
Baw haw haw haw
www.news.com.au/technology/american-network-nbc-publishes-map-showing-the-whole-of-australia-is-on-fire-oops/news-story/259cd3bba88b11d7ac6d5473ab838317

AMERICA, the nation which gave the world 307 Nobel laureates, has today shown that its media is about as smart as one of its famously dopey teen beauty pageant contestants.
In a bizarre map produced by NBC News, pretty much the whole of Australia is depicted as being ablaze this week.

You might have thought the bushfires of the past week have been confined largely to New South Wales, but noooo. Not according to NBC they're not.

According to NBC, pretty much the entire country is on fire, including vast swathes of Cape York, the entire Darwin region, and vast portions of Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert where you'd be lucky to find two blades of grass to rub together.

NBC's cartographical catastrophe is all the more disturbing given the network spent pretty much the whole of the Sydney Olympics camped on the Opera House steps. You'd think they'd have picked up a little Australian geography during their extended stay.

Then again, perhaps they thought they were in Austria all along. Or maybe all those kangaroos hopping down George Street left them a little muddled or something.

Macroscien
Macroscien
QLD
6809 posts
QLD, 6809 posts
24 Oct 2013 4:39pm
Ask them to rectify mistake.
It shouldn't be big problem.
Few drones with incendiary bombs according to the presented map should rectify mistake.

I expect some problems with igniting sands at Alice Springs , but that problem could be solved by 307 Nobel Prize laureates too.
pweedas
pweedas
WA
4642 posts
WA, 4642 posts
24 Oct 2013 6:38pm
My guess is, that's what the New World Order has got planned for us and the news has leaked out a bit early.
You know, like the early announcement of the WTC 7 collapse.

I think they are loading up the drones with incendiaries as we speak,.. eerrr ,.. write,.. type,..?

Just wait 'til aboominator gets onto this one.
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
23647 posts
WA, 23647 posts
24 Oct 2013 6:51pm
Looks like WA is safe so go for it.

All that extra heat to the NE will give us better seabreezes

FormulaNova
FormulaNova
WA
15100 posts
WA, 15100 posts
24 Oct 2013 7:11pm
When did Perth move south? Did they redirect the Swan, or is it now a much longer drive to the river?
gibberjoe
gibberjoe
SA
956 posts
SA, 956 posts
24 Oct 2013 10:09pm

quite possible it's genuine ........ If they took an infared sat shot that shows up the hot spots

after a storm lightning strikes that soon peter out, farm burn offs, garbage dump fires,

seasonal burns on cattle property's to allow new grass growth with coming monsoons.

and of course the Aussie BBQ, and bush tucker hunts by local first people.

mabey their fire symbol is a little large for the map too, very possible, even probable
dirtyharry
dirtyharry
WA
444 posts
WA, 444 posts
25 Oct 2013 1:22am
^ I reckon gibber has got it figured out
GreenPat
GreenPat
QLD
4103 posts
QLD, 4103 posts
25 Oct 2013 4:19am
^ +1

Americans do seem to think our lightning strikes are all bushfires: www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/General-Discussion/Chat/Whys-east-WA-so-lit-up/
Chris6791
Chris6791
WA
3271 posts
WA, 3271 posts
25 Oct 2013 7:19am
dirtyharry said..

^ I reckon gibber has got it figured out


Or he just read the entire article that was linked
gibberjoe
gibberjoe
SA
956 posts
SA, 956 posts
25 Oct 2013 2:37pm

what bl,,dy article? if one has been around the country many many times over many years, it's bl..dy obvious

Happen every year on every property nth of Capricorn, have a good look on google earth in really remote areas

huge fire burns from lightning strikes, Google australian lightning strikes the last storm front near adelaide

recorded many thousands strikes. Someone lights up the Broken Hill dump every week and heaps of little infill

dumps are burnt every week for vermin controll, they still burn sugar cane in some places, croppers

burn off stubble when they see fit. the list is endless. often the unknowing air stewarda bring passengers

attention to so called bush fires, [big noteing] which are in fact property managenet burn offs. The land owner will then

claim a tax deduction for matches. If you visit their places and annoy them they will provide you with a toyo dragging

a lighted old tyre behind and tell you to keep driving till sunset when tea will be ready. come in then. if you are city breed you will never understand
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