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
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Drop bears would evolve into Float bears!
Is that the …loving term for those big spiders? Huntsmans iirc?
No, that's the term for a specific breed of carnivorous koalas that drops on their victim from trees.
Gotta put on your protective gear
Kangaroo's are actually pretty decent swimmers.
Then we were doomed before they even started to move the Mediterranean
Dolphins won’t let Roos in on there territory, unless they give good handies maybe.
They already have venomous sea snakes because of course they do!
Australia used to have an inland sea existing 120 to 90 million years ago called the Eromanga Sea
*looks up Eromanga*
Oh no
This is insane!
It kinda makes sense though, there really is a below-sea-level spot:
Aww it looks like a seahorse
All i see is a funky pinguin
Isn't that just Lake Eyre? Rain does that every so often just for the lols.
It fits pretty well in the continental United States, too!
I didn't realize Brazil would also fit it, wow. I thought I'd have to rotate it
Source: thetruesize.com
No way!
Scotland fits into the Mediterranean 5 times, with leftovers!
Maybe we should move down there. It'd be way warmer!
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.
Yea. But iirc their coastline is smaller than Norway's
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.
I should buy a boat. 🐱 📰
One way to get more Blue states?
US do this
It would drown five people of European descent, but also make about 80 languages extinct.
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.
Internet searches are worthless now.
Ikr, my skill level keeps on increasing but it's not getting me anywhere anymore :(.
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.
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.
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.
If they do this it will just spawn new poisonous animals and insects to kill us off.
Best case: drop bear population declines.
Worst case: drop bears become amphibians.
Unfortunately most of that area is desert. Drop bear populations would remain largely unaffected. Kangaroos with long flippers might be a possibility.
Not sure what's worse, unlike land animals they wouldn't be stuck there either. Yikes
Best case: phenomenal fishing
Worst case: taipans breed with cane toads as a punishment for mankind's hubris
In the worst case where do kangaroos come in?
This is my favorite grand theft auto worldmap from the entire series
Is this Nova Australis archipelago coral or volcanic?
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.
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.
But think of the real estate boom!/s
But think of the views!