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[IndonesiaWarMinister]

You do know that Australia is one of the worlds largest exporters of Uranium, right? Attacking one of the major suppliers of nuclear weaponry seems like a really stupid idea to me.

Actually, it would be a GLORIOUS idea.
Just send in some kamikaze fighter, boom! Nuclear meltdown (or Uranium explosion!)

 And... we have uranium too, the gov' are just too pussy to do something with it (OH SHOOT! GREENPEACE are sieging mah palace! What should I do? Give in to them? GREAT IDEA!)

And... I'll bring animals that is native to the desert! I have many of them! I just put C4 on them... Boom! Instant kamikaze camels! (and when I finished researching the god-damn necromancy 3rd Tier, I'll use the Skel camels! Hahahaha!)

/crazy

But yeah, we don't know much about Australia, cause our attention are all on Bush, and Obama (He's a freaking Indonesian! Yeah! Yeah! )

And, the current president is so... America-centric (as opposed to, you know, focusing on the region which he lives on, and make good treaties with China, or maybe Russia...)

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

Congratulations, you have failed nuclear physics in so very many ways.

[IndonesiaWarMinister]

Congratulations, you have failed nuclear physics in so very many ways.

[/sarcasm]

Yeah, I know that's... crazily impossible. It's almost impossible to force a nuclear meltdown, certainly not by ramming it's core (the system would shut down).
And there is no Uranium explosion, at least not in standart gunpowder sense.

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

Incidentally, it's really odd that we have a quarter of the worlds uranium that is used for nuclear power, but only have a single nuclear power plant, and it's just there for research.

[Cheeetar]

I live in Sydney. I don't really get the patriotism some Australians get about Aus, but I suppose it's like any other country. Aus has decent education, nice suburbs and beaches, but that's about all there is in my opinion.

[Neruz]

Honostly? We don't need nuclear power for awhile yet. At current projected rates of expansion we have enough brown coal to keep us going for about 300 years.

We already have camels by the way, they were imported awhile back and they took to Australia like, well, camels to the desert, actually.

I live in Sydney. I don't really get the patriotism some Australians get about Aus, but I suppose it's like any other country. Aus has decent education, nice suburbs and beaches, but that's about all there is in my opinion.

Seriously, Australia is one of the best countries to live in, you get all the benefits of a first world country without alot of the disadvantages that America and Europe face. There are pros and cons to everything of course, but if you don't realise how lucky you are to live here then i reccomend you spend a year living somewhere else, you'll rapidly come to appreciate our good old watermelon.

[sneakey pete]

At current projected rates of expansion we have enough brown coal to keep us going for about 300 years.

You live in the 80's? that 300 year figure is older than i am, and its exteremely wrong. Try 60-70 years instead of 300.

[Jackrabbit]

I agree with Neruz.

It's on par with NZ in that way, though it surpasses it in some.

[Cheeetar]

I understand that Australia is an extremely nice place to live, but I wouldn't say it's the best/most awesome.

[Neruz]

At current projected rates of expansion we have enough brown coal to keep us going for about 300 years.

You live in the 80's? that 300 year figure is older than i am, and its exteremely wrong. Try 60-70 years instead of 300.

No, no it's not. We've found more coal since then.

[Osmosis Jones]

A perthite here. A lovely country town, be sure to stop by for Bertie's next feeding session.

[sneakey pete]

No, no it's not. We've found more coal since then.

start here, read some of the references.
Some key parts "At the current extraction rate, this would last 132 years. However, the rate of coal consumption is annually increasing at 2-3% per year and, setting the growth rate to 2.5% yields an exponential depletion time of 56 years (in 2065)."

[Muz]

Coming to Australia as a foreigner, I'd have to say it's damn cool. I've been to many other countries, and I still can't comprehend how cool Oz is.

It's a new country. It's bigger than the USA, but almost none of it is hospitable. It gets hit by some nasty economic issues and still bounces back. For a desert country (with no oil), it's done remarkably well. The universities are quite new, nowhere near as ancient as some of the others, but the stuff they teach is damn impressive.

It's surprisingly non-racist, and the worst racism is only subtle, against middle eastern-looking people. Everyone's so damn non-racist that they take their concepts of racism from America. Stop discrimination against Negroes? What Negroes? Only black people here are Indian There's the aborigines, but I don't see them getting disrespected nowhere near what the media suggests.

What I love most is the government. I mean everyone talks bad about their own government, but I think it's doing a brilliant job. It's nice and socialist. The laws actually protect and help most people. It prevents a lot of abuse. And the schools here are fricking brilliant, I'm surprised what a lot of kids here actually learn.


What's not cool:
1. Broadband. Expensive and slow.
2. Everyone else being too fucking smart. I study at least 10 hours a day, every day just to pass, and some shlub gets drunk, passes out, and gets higher grades than me on the exam.
3. Government xenophobia. I mean c'mon, I don't think any other country has such a "do what you're going to do here then get the hell out of our country" attitude.

[Emperor_Jonathan]

(with no oil)

I'm fairly sure we have offshore oil platforms. Or am I getting that mixed up with Natural Gas :x

3. Government xenophobia. I mean c'mon, I don't think any other country has such a "do what you're going to do here then get the hell out of our country" attitude.

It was much, much worse only a few decades ago. The White Australia Policy was only completely turned over in the 70's.

[Rilder]

Would rather live in someplace actually cold. 

Also Australian women are Venomous? confirm/deny.