Australia moving too fast, all maps are wrong

in life •  8 years ago 

 All of this is down to the shifting of tectonic plates, which (if you remember your high school geography classes) you will know glide over the upper mantle (the layer between the Earth's crust and outer core). 

 The plate that Australia sits on has been moving almost 7cm a year, which is thought to be more than any other country. All of this is a right pain in the arse for people who sort out GPS - and it's likely they'll have to make updates to the global tracking system. 

source: National Geographic

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  ·  8 years ago (edited)

lol reading this I imagined some guy who would be on the edge of jumping over 0,5 meter of water to get to Australia, 10 years later he would have to jump 1,2 meters instead. At the age of 50 the distance has become 2,6 meters and he wonders if he is just getting old or if it really was easier back then to make the jump.

He is getting old xD

Queensland Australia gets some truly hot temperatures, 156 F = 57 C this ultra heat is simply transmitted DOWN UNDER and is providing the thermal forces for the tectonic plate movements : )

If you have spent time in central Queensland . . . DON'T ! ! ! Tourists would die, central Australia is for Aussie He Men only . . .

Plus in our attempt to make Down-Under the perfect environment we provide most of the top 20 list of worlds most bad-arze deadly creatures ! ! !

wow I did not know that

the hottest places or found by satellite, simply no humans can live there, I got the 156 F right but that is 68 Celsius Temperature ; ) apologies : )

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/photos/10-of-the-hottest-places-on-earth/australias-badlands#top-desktop