Golly! They let you drive at up to 110? I gotta go there, around here they only let you drive 70!
(Why do they call miles "imperial units," anyway? Aren't those silly French things the accepted units of measure in the Empire these days? Oh, wait, it's the Commonwealth. Never mind.)
British Imperial Units... we did have an Empire once, biggest the world has ever seen actually both in terms of land mass [43%] and population [61%].
Also teh only one in recorded history which was voluntarily dismantled. [America doesn't count since technically it revolted before the empire was formed.]
...biggest the world has ever seen actually both in terms of land mass [43%] and population [61%]...
I have to respectfully disagree with that. The Hapsburgs controlled a much larger empire when they got the seat of the HRE. Charles I of Spain (and Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire) received titles in 1519 claiming over 2/3 of the world's landmass:
King of the Romans, Emperor-elect; semper Augustus; King of Spain, Sicily, Jerusalem, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, the Indies and the mainland on the far side of the Atlantic; Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Luxembourg, Limburg, Athens and Patras; Count of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol; Count Palatine of Burgundy, Hainault, Pfirt, Roussilon, Landgrave of Alsace; Count of Swabia; Lord of Asia and Africa.
For varying definitions of "rule," yes. They controlled the trade with all of those locations, and had governmental systems on the ground in each one. When you add in their direct relations and tributary extended family (those who ruled in the family name), the Hapsburgs were the most powerful family in history.
I would like to thank you for being the only person to realize that I really am that impossibly stupid, that I was actually completely serious and not, in any way, even CONSIDERING making a JOKE, and that I am completely unable to determine that they use the metric system in Oz and that 110 km/h is almost exactly the 70 mph I was comparing it to- well, it's actually 68.3508 miles per hour, but it's pretty close. Anyway, thanks.
As someone who lives in another metric country, I don't assume that every American knows what the metric system is, let alone how to convert from American measure to metric. I don't think you're stupid -- I was just trying to be helpful. Now that I know how you react to that, I won't bother again.
What amazes me is the lack of traffic. Most places here in the USA you couldn't drive 90k (56 miles) and only overtake 3-4 trucks---and no cars!---and have nothing pass you. Beautiful countryside in Oz, too!
And that's the major highway between Brisbane and Melbourne. There is a lot more traffic if you go down the coast via Sydney.
We've had a little rain; enough to make the grass green but not enough to fill rivers and water tables. It's a "green drought." The old dump does look nice, though.
Over in Yorrip they have TV channels where all you watch is the view from a train locomotive, typically going through the Alps. The scenery is very beautiful, but not what I'd want playing on my hypnogourd all the time...
This was an interesting drive, and yes you're all nutters on the wrong side of the road... ;)
Absolutely, just HOURS! Oh, don't I know it after my roadtrips out your way and also from Sydney down to Phillip Island. I've done many kms of driving in Oz in the past year and have earned my lefthand-side-of-the-road wings.
I done gots mine left-side driving wings too, some years ago in the Caribbean. I was driving a Mini Moke for a couple of months. Your basic golf cart that can go 70 MPH. Amazingly, given the narrow and poorly marked roads, the high speed and lack of seat belts, top, or DOORS on the Moke (the seats were an aluminum frame with woven webbing, like a lawn chair) and the low mileage- 20 miles per bottle of rum- the only fatality of that summer of geological mapping was a land crab that wandered onto the road one moonlit night. KARUNNNNNNCH! Crab salad!
Interesting critters, land crabs. I liked them. They would come out and wander around on the dry land at night. They would walk on the paved roads. They clicked when they did. Except when they crunched.
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Is that final destination Canberra Radio Telescope?
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(Why do they call miles "imperial units," anyway? Aren't those silly French things the accepted units of measure in the Empire these days? Oh, wait, it's the Commonwealth. Never mind.)
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Also teh only one in recorded history which was voluntarily dismantled. [America doesn't count since technically it revolted before the empire was formed.]
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I have to respectfully disagree with that. The Hapsburgs controlled a much larger empire when they got the seat of the HRE. Charles I of Spain (and Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire) received titles in 1519 claiming over 2/3 of the world's landmass:
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Then the Brits defeated the Spanish Armada...
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I think it's also need you put the speed limits on the road surface.
I wonder if I can convince my camera to do this. What do you use to stitch the pictures together?
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Thanks for sharing!
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We've had a little rain; enough to make the grass green but not enough to fill rivers and water tables. It's a "green drought." The old dump does look nice, though.
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This was an interesting drive, and yes you're all nutters on the wrong side of the road... ;)
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HOURS of it.
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Interesting critters, land crabs. I liked them. They would come out and wander around on the dry land at night. They would walk on the paved roads. They clicked when they did. Except when they crunched.
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