Australia - DEAD?

[underdog]

No, just covered in dust (http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/national/dust-turns-sydney-sky-red/20090923-g0tw.html?selectedImage=0)

I looks like someone didn't shut off their sepia filter.

[A.J.]

Reminds me of living in the desert.

[TjM]

I'm sorry I was distracted by the Oktoberfest photos what happened in AUS?

[~Katja~]

who works out outdoors when the city is covered in dust
http://images.smh.com.au/2009/09/23/747806/rae-dust3-600x400.jpg

[topless_mike]

these photo's are terrible. none are timestamped, and it looks like they've all been run in umm, sepia? or with an orange filter lens.
and why are some of them like, blood red?

[topless_mike]

well, wasnt australia the place that england sent all the criminals to live at one point?
maybe they are just getting the australians ready for when they clean out that continent and send them all to mars.

[brettmojo]

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[JohnCharles]

well, wasnt australia the place that england sent all the criminals to live at one point?
maybe they are just getting the australians ready for when they clean out that continent and send them all to mars.

You must have been reading my mind.

Those rejects are still being punished for making England angry.

[Furtherman]

http://www.independent.ie/multimedia/archive/00391/sydney2_getty_391037t.jpg

I saw this before - the end scene to Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome!

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/09/23/article-1215443-068CDF15000005DC-747_964x1193.jpg

And there's more:

Small earthquakes shake Melbourne's south-east (http://www.theage.com.au/national/small-earthquakes-shake-melbournes-southeast-20090922-g0du.html)

Wild weather has ruined some grain crops, damaged property and uprooted hundreds of trees in parts of South Australia. (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/21/2691666.htm)

SYDNEY: Three Australian states are at risk from a major volcanic eruption which geological history indicates is "well overdue" an expert warned this week. (http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3025/australia-threat-volcanic-eruption)

The last one is ironic, considering of all the land masses on Earth, Australia will be the first to become uninhabitable due to its lack of volcanic seeding. It's a dying continent. Get there before it dies!

[Contra]

Damn I always wanted to check the place out, well that's two I'll never see (the other being New Orleans).

[cougarjake13]

who works out outdoors when the city is covered in dust
http://images.smh.com.au/2009/09/23/747806/rae-dust3-600x400.jpg



so that'll be what it looks like to live on mars

[Furtherman]

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/40000/40274/easternaustralia_tmo_2009266.jpg

A wall of dust stretched from northern Queensland to the southern tip of eastern Australia on the morning of September 23, 2009, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image. The dust is thick enough that the land beneath it is not visible. The storm, the worst in 70 years, led to canceled or delayed flights, traffic problems, and health issues, reported the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News. The concentration of particles in the air reached 15,000 micrograms per cubic meter in New South Wales during the storm, said ABC News. A normal day sees a particle concentration 10-20 micrograms per cubic meter.
Strong winds blew the dust from the interior to more populated regions along the coast. In this image, the dust rises in plumes from point sources and concentrates in a wall along the front of the storm. The large image shows that some of the point sources are agricultural fields, recognizable by their rectangular shape. Australia has suffered from a multiple-year drought, and much of the dust is coming from fields that have not been planted because of the drought, said ABC News.