What if you lived in Australia? - Page 696

**blondifan** · February 1st, 2018, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by palo5

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Someone said AUS will build a new railroad from north to south. Is it true?

I can guarantee if they do, it won't reach this far south.

**Starkos** · February 1st, 2018, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by palo5

You just pollute the environment. We don't. Our highways are natural

Looks like good ol' Steve Irwin has come back from the grave after all

Good for ya mate !

**BlueArsedFly** · February 2nd, 2018, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Starkos

Looks like good ol' Steve Irwin has come back from the grave after all

Good for ya Steve !

More like these two gumbys.

**buttsie** · February 3rd, 2018, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Starkos

Looks like good ol' Steve Irwin has come back from the grave after all

Good for ya Steve !

A good cover to describe Australias National Security

Reads like an episode of Yes Minister

The Cabinet Files: How classified documents were found at a Canberra second-hand shop

Two cabinets for $10 each
The story begins at a second-hand auction house in Canberra in the middle of last year

The filing cabinets had been in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and contained documents from the bureaucracy which detailed cabinet deliberations for every prime minister between John Howard and Tony Abbott.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/about/bac...-found/9393008

**Starkos** · February 3rd, 2018, 02:24 AM

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Originally Posted by buttsie

A good cover to describe Australias National Security

Reads like an episode of Yes Minister

The Cabinet Files: How classified documents were found at a Canberra second-hand shop

Two cabinets for $10 each
The story begins at a second-hand auction house in Canberra in the middle of last year

The filing cabinets had been in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and contained documents from the bureaucracy which detailed cabinet deliberations for every prime minister between John Howard and Tony Abbott.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/about/bac...-found/9393008

Canberra, we got a problem...

'"We haven't got keys for them — but you might have trouble getting them into the ute because they're pretty heavy' lmfaooo

'but as he read some of the documents showing that some politicians had been saying one thing and doing another' No shit Sherlock

Sounds like a skit by the Pythons

Good thing the guy was apolitical though.

Estreeter · February 3rd, 2018, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by BlueArsedFly

More like these two gumbys.

I loved hating them

**trailmaster** · February 3rd, 2018, 01:35 PM

Kevin here. There are different ways of going from one Australian city to other cities. There is Highway 1 which circumnavigates all of Australia. There are regular trains, and there are commercial jet aircraft. Has anyone thought of building a mag-lev train? This type of train is supported by a strong magnetic field. Since there is little friction tremendous speeds can be attained. A typical mag-lev train can move at 600 kilometers per hour. That means that it would take just 4 and 1/2 hours to go from Brisbane to Perth. Of course building such a train would be an enormous expenditure, but it could be done.

Estreeter · February 3rd, 2018, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

Has anyone thought of building a mag-lev train?

Since I was a kid there's been "talk" of a high speed rail link between Melbourne Canberra and Sydney, but that's all it's ever been

2 things will always get in the way, Environmental groups claiming it will ruin the landscape and the other, cost, with a huge land mass and only 24 million, cash will always govern the end decision

**effCup** · February 4th, 2018, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

mag-lev train?

Have you studied the practicalities?

**Tmee2020** · February 4th, 2018, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

Kevin here. There are different ways of going from one Australian city to other cities. There is Highway 1 which circumnavigates all of Australia. There are regular trains, and there are commercial jet aircraft. Has anyone thought of building a mag-lev train? This type of train is supported by a strong magnetic field. Since there is little friction tremendous speeds can be attained. A typical mag-lev train can move at 600 kilometers per hour. That means that it would take just 4 and 1/2 hours to go from Brisbane to Perth. Of course building such a train would be an enormous expenditure, but it could be done.

Practicalities, schmachticalities. I haven't got anything on next weekend, let's do it.

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February 3rd, 2018, 01:35 PM	#6957
trailmaster Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Posts: 59,894 Thanks: 1,328,995 Thanked 707,173 Times in 60,066 Posts	Kevin here. There are different ways of going from one Australian city to other cities. There is Highway 1 which circumnavigates all of Australia. There are regular trains, and there are commercial jet aircraft. Has anyone thought of building a mag-lev train? This type of train is supported by a strong magnetic field. Since there is little friction tremendous speeds can be attained. A typical mag-lev train can move at 600 kilometers per hour. That means that it would take just 4 and 1/2 hours to go from Brisbane to Perth. Of course building such a train would be an enormous expenditure, but it could be done.