oldebayer: This is because Carbon Dioxide is heavier than air, and thus sinks to the bottom of the earth, which is where Australia is located.

GAT_00: The U.S. fell to second at 19.78 tons per inhabitant a year while Canada was third at 19.81 tons.

Am I reading that right? That's got to be a typo.

But that 19.81 tons is Canadian tons, and there's a conversion factor.

davidphogan: Barakku: It's a joke

It's a pretty stupid one then.

The serious business police are already on their way, rest assured.

Any else surprised to find out that they are supposedly responsible for the generation of a little less than forty-thousand pounds of carbon dioxide each year?

I will never get sick of the Australia = Austria jokes. Huge win for the subby!

/Australian

global wombats: Of-course we need to burn the oil and coal, if only just to produce enough vegemite for everyone.

One small taste years and years ago was enough vegemite for me.

davidphogan: It's a pretty stupid one then.

I heard that pretending to be trolled is the new trolling.

That was mildly entertaining when the kiddies on 4Chan first made the joke - probably around the time that Fritz in Austria was arrested for imprisoning his own child in a basement for decades as a sex slave.

Now it's a lame-assed non-meme used by primary school children who still find "knock knock" jokes funny.

Fark was once a bastion of the intellectual elite-wannabees. Now it's a festering sore frequented by the flies of abomination.

/Psst! That's YOU, mister OP.

nero_design: That was mildly entertaining when the kiddies on 4Chan first made the joke - probably around the time that Fritz in Austria was arrested for imprisoning his own child in a basement for decades as a sex slave.

Now it's a lame-assed non-meme used by primary school children who still find "knock knock" jokes funny.

Fark was once a bastion of the intellectual elite-wannabees. Now it's a festering sore frequented by the flies of abomination.

/Psst! That's YOU, mister OP.

you lose

Taleya: ChadManMn

Australia would be the perfect place for those huge mirrors that focus solar energy on a boiler to produce steam energy.

Not quite...we may have the sunlight, we may have the space...we just don't have any friggin' water!

*lightbulb*

We do have sea water.

This sounds like a desal operation + power generation at the same time. Now to work on the technology/process to make this feasible.

msheda: GAT_00: Barakku: Farking Big Macs

I more meant Canada with more emissions/person/year and being ranked lower.

Less people, higher per capita...

That isn't the point. If #1) is 20.58 #2) is 19.78 and #3) is 19.81 then there is an error in the ordering or the amount of CO2 burned up each year.

--
AJ

No one laughed that time when I said Kazakhstan but really was really talking about Kyrgyzstan.

nero_design: That was mildly entertaining when the kiddies on 4Chan first made the joke - probably around the time that Fritz in Austria was arrested for imprisoning his own child in a basement for decades as a sex slave.

Now it's a lame-assed non-meme used by primary school children who still find "knock knock" jokes funny.

Fark was once a bastion of the intellectual elite-wannabees. Now it's a festering sore frequented by the flies of abomination.

/Psst! That's YOU, mister OP.



I've notice a lot of sand around here lately. I wonder where it could be leaking from.

Melgania: This sounds like a desal operation + power generation at the same time. Now to work on the technology/process to make this feasible.

While you're at it, why don't you work on making a perfect pesticide for the crops?

Sex dungeons are serious business...

berylman

No one laughed that time when I said Kazakhstan but really was really talking about Kyrgyzstan.


Really? Really really?

:-)

I heard their poop spins backwards.

davidphogan: Austria and Australia are the same country now?

Aren't both overrun by kangaroos and boomerangs?

redmid17: Branga: lordargent: Tahs4Evar: We're going to be fatter than people in the US soon too!

That already happened.

But only 2/10th of the Aussie population is obese compared to America's 3/10ths.

And Austria is less then 1/10th! [Covering all bases here.]

Seriously dude, making up countries is a new low, even for Fark.

It's a real place! It even has a flag. Also goes by the name Ostmark.

davidphogan: Austria and Australia are the same country now?

It says so on Encylopedia Dramatica, so it must be true!

eraser8

Doesn't desalinization usually use a LOT of electrical power? All the electricity produced would be used to power the desalinization process. Almost seems like a sisyphean task.


If only Australia got a lot of sun, then they could either use solar radiation to evaporate water for desalinization or generate electricity using photovoltaic cells. If only...


Sisyphean tasks take balls.

I once wore a speedo to a party on a houseboat and told these girls in my bad Schwarzeneggar accent that I was Austrian. They said that I didn't sound Australian.

Nemo's Brother: davidphogan: Austria and Australia are the same country now?

Aren't both overrun by kangaroos and boomerangs?

Actually, I hear they both have been having problems recently with Drop-Elk.

/always carry lip balm.

fair dinkum

Nemo's Brother

davidphogan: Austria and Australia are the same country now?

Aren't both overrun by kangaroos and boomerangs?


They're getting bad in Spain, too. A few years ago I went to the running of the boomerangs in Pamplona. It was really tiring, going back and forth like that.

probably because they drive like this.

I think the real reason is cheese. Australia is producing vast quantities of cheese, which it stores in immense, underground storage facilities in the outback. The weird part is that even they don't know why. All they know is that someday, most of the desert will be deep in cheese. And in the cheese will live giant cheese worms. And the giant cheese worms will make the most valuable substance in the universe.

nero_design: That was mildly entertaining when the kiddies on 4Chan first made the joke - probably around the time that Fritz in Austria was arrested for imprisoning his own child in a basement for decades as a sex slave.

Now it's a lame-assed non-meme used by primary school children who still find "knock knock" jokes funny.

Fark was once a bastion of the intellectual elite-wannabees. Now it's a festering sore frequented by the flies of abomination.

/Psst! That's YOU, mister OP.

Pro-tip that joke is circa 1994, and is probably older than the internet. But do try again if you please. Unless you are going to claim that 4chan was around before 1994 and you were there. Ausfag.

You know who else had a problem with huge balls?

Sisyphus would have been right at home in Australia.

andyofne: davidphogan: Barakku: It's a joke

It's a pretty stupid one then.

You may not get it but you'll get over it.

Wow, how long have you been waiting to pull the trigger on that chestnut?

/Still not funny.

Gawdzila: oldebayer: This is because Carbon Dioxide is heavier than air, and thus sinks to the bottom of the earth, which is where Australia is located.

(picture of Calvin's father)

Pure awesome on a sugar cube.

1,000 people producing 1,000 units of gas, 1 per 1.
1,000 people producing 10,000 units of gas, 10 per 1.
100,000 people producing 100,000 units of gas, 1 per 1.

Which one would benefit the system the most by a reduction?

Great metric China.


Also consider, 100,000 people producing 100,000 units of gas, 1 per 1, but only 10,000 use the energy, the other 90,000 live in the country and do not consume goods from the industrialization. 10 per 1?

davidphogan: Barakku: It's a joke

It's a pretty stupid one then.

only because you don't get it.
+1 subby

nero_design: That was mildly entertaining when the kiddies on 4Chan first made the joke - probably around the time that Fritz in Austria was arrested for imprisoning his own child in a basement for decades as a sex slave.

Now it's a lame-assed non-meme used by primary school children who still find "knock knock" jokes funny.

Fark was once a bastion of the intellectual elite-wannabees. Now it's a festering sore frequented by the flies of abomination.

/Psst! That's YOU, mister OP.



/It's hot.
//Your not.

In the Southern Hemisphere, CO2 causes global cooling though, right?

Taleya: ChadManMn

Australia would be the perfect place for those huge mirrors that focus solar energy on a boiler to produce steam energy.

Not quite...we may have the sunlight, we may have the space...we just don't have any friggin' water!

I'm pretty sure they are closed systems, but if they're not then yeah that might be a problem.

We have lots of water where I live, but it's in solid form much of the year :-)

TheBystanderEffect: andyofne: davidphogan: Barakku: It's a joke

It's a pretty stupid one then.

You may not get it but you'll get over it.

Wow, how long have you been waiting to pull the trigger on that chestnut?

/Still not funny.

Actually I don't know if you truly got the joke. But it's not that Australia=Austria but it's the people who come in and complain about how Australia=/=Austria and how unfunny it is.

Also you know who else lived in Australia? That's right

Why the hell aren't developed countries using nuclear power?

IonBeam2: Why the hell aren't developed countries using nuclear power?

Hippies.