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[Fortune]

Most of the time, yes. At certain times though, Oz is home to the biggest inland sea (technically a lake because it lacks salt) in the world. You'd be surprised by the outback. It isn't as lifeless as you might think.

[Retread]

Is this before or after you get eaten by a Behemoth?

[kv]

Technically, the outback has as much (maybe slightly less) life than the american southwest/northern mexico.

Mid-mexico starts to get tropical, and southern mexico is... well, central america.

  -Kid Vid

[Ruski]

I wonder why more isn't done with the land out there?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

(over population my foot!)

[Fortune]

You mean like the huge-ass ranches (called stations), some of which are bigger than some of the States in America?

There are, of course, a lot of areas that are pretty barren and won't sustain much in the way of livestock and/or plants, but they are basically equivalent to places like the badlands in the southwest of America.

The entire population of Oz is around 20 million, centered mostly around the coastal areas. Inland is mostly farming, and as I said, those farms tend to be rather huge, and don't really take all that many people to maintain.

[Ruski]

so is there unclaimed land that i could go stick a flag in?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Retread]

No, but you can squat there.

Reminds me of that episode of Family Guy where they discover that their plot of land isn't owned by the United States so Peter makes his own country.

[Ruski]

does he get invaded?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Retread]

Sort of, they cut off his electricity and water, so he becomes a Third World country, so he has a party and invites Ayatollah Khomeni, Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, and Osama bin Laden over for a party.

[Gabriel]

You mean like the huge-ass ranches (called stations), some of which are bigger than some of the States in America?

There are, of course, a lot of areas that are pretty barren and won't sustain much in the way of livestock and/or plants, but they are basically equivalent to places like the badlands in the southwest of America.

The entire population of Oz is around 20 million, centered mostly around the coastal areas. Inland is mostly farming, and as I said, those farms tend to be rather huge, and don't really take all that many people to maintain.

Sounds to me like it would be ideal for corporate take-over. Of course the mana-storms put that idea on hold pretty securly. But imagine if you could, for lack of a bettter term, terraform the inland area of Australia. You could big canals and irrigation channels, add desalination (sp) plants to take care of the sea-salt, and carve our large areas for standing lakes. The water table would begin to shift and growing would be considerably easier, thus "greening" the area. The greener it get, the more trees you have, which in turn helps to cool the area and begins to change weather patterns in a way that adds more water to the area overall. Of course, since I know nothing about geology, there may very well be considerations with soil/rock in the areas that simply won't allow large watter build-up on the surface or subsurface. Still, settling Australia could be done in the course of a few decades or a century. The big question is, "Who would foot the bill and why?"

Gabriel

[Retread]

Aztechnology West, man!

[kv]

Actually, there are several projects to tame the problems of inner-Aussie. Most of the projects fail because of manastorms, which it would appear aren't as random as previously believed.

I know of at least one megacorp who's trying to deal with/overpower the Aboriginals to get a foothold.

  -Kid Vid

[Ruski]

they going to hire matthew quiddiley?

LOL

would probibly be easyer to tame the outback than to tame the moon. they could set up some test 'biospheres' there like that old movie... whatever it was...

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[mercy]

biodome

[Ruski]

Ahh yes, with poly shore.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

didn't he die?